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Xtremekiwi:
Quick question: At what point does it become more practical to kill, say, hell knights and barons of hell with a pistol over a shotgun when you're going for a pistol build? Because I want to try and get a Sharpshooter build going for a UV Ao100 run. Or maybe I should focus on a Shottyhead build...
IronBeer:
--- Quote from: Xtremekiwi on July 01, 2012, 14:21 ---Quick question: At what point does it become more practical to kill, say, hell knights and barons of hell with a pistol over a shotgun when you're going for a pistol build? Because I want to try and get a Sharpshooter build going for a UV Ao100 run. Or maybe I should focus on a Shottyhead build...
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Quick answer, I'd say at the minimum once you have DG. For a single-gun build.... probably around when you get SoG3. (DG≈SoG3 in DPS). That's just a quick-'n-dirty answer, though; I'm sure somebody around here can come up with a MUCH more detailed (and accurate) answer in no time.
AlterAsc:
When you feel comfortable to do so.You can kill HK without losses with SoG3 and EEx, but there's no point in trying to kill a baron with a basic pistol.It's way too bothersome.Personally i don't know any good way to do it right (i wish i knew because that would make 3rd round of HA much easier).
2DeviationsOut:
Once you cross the point where you can kill them more efficiently with a pistol than a shotgun, that's when you swap. Personally, I've killed them with just a pistol and no pistol traits, but then it's probably more practical to just corner-kite them with a shotgun or pistol, whatever's to your taste.
In my standard progression path, I ditch my shotgun the moment I set up into my main build. For example, in a Ammochain game I stop using my shotgun the moment I get to a chaingun. I'll keep it around as a backup, with one set of shells, until I get my first plasgun. In a Pistol game I ditch my shotgun the moment I get SoG2, which is pretty quick considering that I play on N! almost exclusively.
If you're not completely comfortable with a pistol though, I'd keep your shotty around to deal with high-threat enemies like Pain Elementals. In a Ao100 Pistols game, your main threats are going to be Revs and Pain/Agony Elementals, and if you get a Cyberdemon level it's going to be brutal. Besides boss enemies and revs/pains/agonies, you can trash anything else the game throws at you. Once you have your full pistol build rolling, your time-to-kill should be low enough that you can take out anything shy of a HK in less than .3 sec, and nothing except for revs and pain elementals should take longer than .7 sec, excluding N! enemies of course.
Xtremekiwi:
Thanks for all of the answers. So it's basically whenever I feel confortable that I can kill faster, but in general it would be around SoG2/SoG3. Thank you for all of the advice. I'll have to experiment a little bit (UV, I am not ready not N!) to find the sweet spot.
And about the Cyberdemon level? I find that if you have a 3d6 pistol (Trigun, P3-modded Combat Pistol), you can generally kill a Cyberdemon in ~15 bullets. So ~8-10 Cyberdemons, get ready to dance rockets pretty much.
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