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Wide beam rifle vs split beam

postinggumpostinggum Member Posts: 1,117 Arc User
in Builds, Powers, and Game Mechanics
Some how I'd never noticed wide beam rifles before, having been a split beam user. According to the description the secondary fire on widebeam can hit 5 targets rathers than 3, and does more damage than the split beam, both having exploit mode. Any reason why my plamsa wielding roms shouldn't change rifles?

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  • baudlbaudl Member Posts: 4,060 Arc User
    Little bit confused here. I only know of wide beam pistols, which have a cone and do expose. Then there is high density beam rifles which do cylindrical and are exploiters.
    Must be a particular type of weapon you are speaking about maybe.
    Also, it may be limited range?
    Anyway, your description seems a little fishy, but I also may be missing some info.
    Go pro or go home
  • postinggumpostinggum Member Posts: 1,117 Arc User
    Special rom plamsa rifle, was a dil store item then moved to, I think, a vendor in rom command. Secondary has a fuggly looking green cone but hits at 35m like a proper rifle. Vendor has crappy whites, exchange has up to epic mk14. My rom toons been rolling with adv fleet mk 14 split beam plasma + 116b mk14, and all get nice hits on the secondary, on paper the wide beam is better.

    http://sto.gamepedia.com/Plasma_Wide_Beam_Rifle

    other fancy plasma shooter:

    http://sto.gamepedia.com/Plasma_Piercing_Beam_Rifle
  • baudlbaudl Member Posts: 4,060 Arc User
    yeah looks superior, never saw that before actually.
    Go pro or go home
  • raiijiraiiji Member Posts: 15 Arc User
    If you wanna stick with an exploit weapon, you won't find anything better than the plasma wide beam for the time being. Would be nice having more wide beam rifles that exploit for other energy types which what I was hoping the delta ground set weapons would be but definitely were not.
  • kostamojenxkostamojenx Member Posts: 251 Arc User
    The Wide Beam plasma rifle has been the best ground weapon in the game for awhile.

    Want to vaporize 5 targets at once? Its the only weapon that can! So much fun and HIGHLY effective.
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