My Mender needs a new set of weapons.

Igniter + Shredders might be a high damage close range setup at the moment.

Medium weapons: Atomizer, Igniter (350m & slow moving), Cryo (300m and slow moving), Scourge, Punisher T (needs to warm up to do full damage, slow 10s reload).

Light weapons: Rime (300m burst & slow moving), Blaze (350m & slow moving), Shredder (500m), Spark (600m with required lock-on), Punisher (needs to warm up to do full damage, slow 10s reload).

Such brawling weapons are the most similar replacements for pre-nerf Shotguns, with generally the highest damage potential available.


Igniter is one of the highest damage medium weapons atm.

Shredders and Punishers track Phantoms well are great IF you can aim them, and are my personal highly skilled CQB favourites (I've yet to procure any Atomizers) - they are harder to use but good for dealing with many enemies at once,

otherwise,

Scourge and Sparks will auto-aim themselves for you at the cost of a lock-on period, but they are easy to fire and well liked by many.


If you use Punishers, you can just avoid fighting during the 10 second reload. The long reload times don't affect their overall damage output, which is very high - like Scourge and Sparks. They also take a few seconds to warm up and run at full damage. They can also be tapped a few times to warm them up.


You can mix and match all these weapons, though the mixed reload times may or may not be to your liking.

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If you want a 600m build, Stings are another alternative to Marquess. They are far cheaper to upgrade.

Hussar can be used alongside them too - or, if you don't mind juggling ammunition clips, so can Pulsar (it has lockdown). Or less so, Wasp.

600m builds have good range but don't do as much damage.

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Pulsar + Shredders is a neither here nor there support hybrid, with less brawling ability than Leadhose/Shredders/Tasers, more range than Leadhose/Shredders, and a heap of lockdown potential.

I use cryo sparks, timing works well with 20% damage boost.

I run mine with Pulsars and Shredders.  I have speed skills RH and Spy (speed at the cost of damage), so I don't use it to brawl.

It's more there for the free 400 honor and to annoy Reds and hunt the occasional Loki

atomizer and shredders would be awesome if you can, I think you should use shredders no matter what for the most part, they are insanely strong and very constant damage. A taran would pair well with them or igniter. Maybe a punisher T (heard good things about that setup). Tasers are a good setup if you have em.

If I manage to win an Atomizer, i'll try it. 

Shredder Pulsar is the bees knees for a bot like Mender.