(MA) Carbine 12 and Gauss Rifle 6 - Marriage in Heaven/Hell

wouldn't it be better to hold out for the GR10? not sure what your energy capacity is on your Guardian. But, since the Guardian is a 32EN max mech, you might want to aim for higher EN weapons.

I have GR10 unleveled and it was BRUTAL trying to do the Specialization spree last time. I ended up pulling my hair out but did finally find a weapon combo that worked. Still, it was very eye opening.

The Gauss Rifle series is another one of those weapons with chance of critical, so it joins the ranks of the JR and RG. It's got 10 projectiles and when leveled, I think the critical chance is 50%. So that means half of your shots will do double damage. Pair that with Maverick (cause it's a sniper class weapon), with Stalker, and you've got a good all range weapon that you can fire while strafing and sprinting. That would be the draw for me.

Exactly how does one pull this off, given that MR is more of a cloak and dagger weapon and Carbine is the opposite?  Kill shot?

I do have a GR 10…have that and GR6 on my Panther; AC 10/6 on Ares; MR6 on Killshot; Carbine 8 on Surge (experimenting); PC8 on Zephyr (which lives to make me pull bloody 「bum-bum」 clumps of hair out of my 「fluffernutter」ing head).

It’s definitely an ambush style of mech. It’d work on several different ones. 

here’s the vid (and others) I mentioned for reference:

Yeah, it does look that way! I’m gonna try that shadow build someday. 

I want to try that MD build too. MD will be the one of the next bots I max. Takes forever to collect the last BP requirements.

I tend to aim poorly with the MR8.  Guess I need to learn…lol.

Thanks for the info, friends!

Koalabear have you ever tried Shadow with carbines? I never thought about that one, but the other day I played against a maxed shadow that was going in and out from cover (basically only out while the stealth was active) and he did pretty well. Of course maxed Major was part of the combo.

I don't have CB8 so no I've never tried. TBH, I don't feel the need. To run like that puts a LOT of pressure on my left thumb, which is already not great thanks to years of War Robots and MA. Makes me wonder if some of those folks to duck in and out of cover really well are playing keyboard/mouse on a PC.

Yeah I feel you. Sometimes I see players dancing like a butterfly and I wonder the same. Pretty sure they are playing on a computer... or they are 10 yo.