Lol you must not be doing something right cus I remember doing pretty well with an upgraded Braton and Lato. Hell, I had stufftons of fun with the Lato.
The
Braton works fine. Hell it's probably one of the best non-clan tech guns you can get. The MK-1, however, is awful unless you upgrade its damage with serration (Which drops once in a blue moon), put frost damage on it (Which drops when the planets align and you get lucky), and put Shred on it (Which you get from Nightmare mode which is the definition of artificial difficulty)
The MK-1 is useful for Tenno points only and is one of the worst weapons in the entire game.
The Lato was a good weapon, I just didn't like it.
Anyways there are a lot of serious flaws with this game. It's a horrible grindfest, the enemies get ridiculously unbalanced at higher levels, one of the most useful weapons in the entire game
requires less materials than one of the most useless (I'm referring to the Kunai and the Kraken, due to the latter lacking armor ignore and the fire rate.)
Mods are honestly kind of ridiculous, the scaling on the levels for mods like Hornet Strike and Serration quickly turns into "Stick all of your fusion cores into it" and the odds of having enough to not use fusion cores on it (Ha) are practically nothing. I haven't leveled my Serration to past +75% damage, and I've played this game for over 100 hours.
To me at least, mods are kinda like paint with numbers without the numbers, you need to feel around the weapon to know what places to mod in, Multi-Shot and Damage are good places to start with the Lato.
EDIT: Oh and Armor Piercing is good too.
Rifles you put damage, frost, and depending on whether the gun has high or low critical chance, either a crit build or rainbow/elemental build, swapping out as needed. Shred is generally useful, the 1.2m puncture destroys crowds, in addition to a +30% fire rate. Stacking this with speed trigger gives a total of +90% fire rate. Multishot is not effective for its cost until you have the proper polarities.
Pistols you have multishot, and generally a rainbow build. Sometimes a crit build for things like Twin Vipers which put out so many bullets that the criticals fly. Obvious damage upgrades.
Bows you have speed trigger and damage upgrades, rainbow at your pleasure.
Same for shotties, damage and rainbow.
The formula for rifles will work for pretty much
all of them, and really there's no point in crit builds for most of the weapons (Soma excepted, Shred + Speed Trigger + Maxed Crit Chance + Maxed Crit Damage = everything dies)
Get mods scrub. All guns aren't that usable until you mod them up.
The Kunai are cheap as hell and will annihilate everything in their path.
I really do want to like this game, it's just that it's kind of a broken piece of stuff right now. DE keeps loving up, nerfed the fast (No seriously this is annoying as forget you're a space ninja not a fat asthmatic forget) nerfed Ember and others in preparation for the new math involved in armor - while the new calculations weren't ready yet, and added Bonedaddy, but put him behind
three grind gates and made him
pre-buff Mag levels of uselessEdit: Also Steve (or Scott I forget) said "Cosmetics don't sell" and thus the entire project is being run by handicaps.
Seriously cosmetics sell like hotcakes rather than Jew everybody the forget out just sell weapon and Warframe skins. At least they're doing it now.
Poll