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Agony Elementals are... well, agonizing

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aka_Cthulhu:

--- Quote from: ZicherCZ on February 20, 2014, 10:06 ---A similar situation on an Ao100 taught me two lessons:
- minoring in shotguns and carrying a few extra shells is very nice when majoring in pistols, and
- SoG5-amplified Sharpshooter with an energy pistol >> agony elemental cave. You're killing all those souls before they can even move.

--- End quote ---

So I tried going with dual energy pistols on my Ao666 run. Due to the length of that mode, I eventually found two more combat pistols, and gave them energy pistol mods. It does work quite well against those agony elementals and revenants, but I found that it was more or less the same for my dual storm combat pistols/storm combat pistol + grammaton. I mean, the energy pistols pack a punch, but since ammo for energy pistols is only 50 compared to the normal pistol ammo's 100, I found my ammunition supply dwindling just as fast.

And then eventually I found two blasters which I also gave a storm bolter mod (only one, the other needed one more technical mod). I had to worry less about my inventory of ammo since the bullets did regenerate, though I had to dodge around the map as it slowly reloaded. That and I also had to aim for them archviles first, more so than using the other pistols. Still, it worked out pretty well since for my armor I had antigrav phaseshift and cybernano phaseshift.

That armor set helped out a lot, since as I recall movement was 0.15 seconds, and shooting was 0.9 (or was it .09? I forget). However, that armor did end up being my downfall. I realized too late that I can't remove the armor, so in some ways it was a bit of a downgrade since I already had an inquisitors set. The mancubi were really bad farther into the 666 floors.

ZicherCZ:
Going fully energy-pistol is probably not effective precisely due to ammo limits. That's why I emphasized Sharpshooter - they make each and every bullet (or cell) count about the same as dualgunners' _both_ bullets. With Juggler later on, they're free to switch to a prepared energy (combat) pistol at will and snipe those souls one-shot-one-kill style, then juggling for the P3-modded combat pistol for the elementals, and juggling back when they summon souls.
Might be just my point of view or my experience only, but in my eyes the efficiency was awesome to no end.

aka_Cthulhu:
In the end though, bullets both energy and normal was not that big of an issue. I found enough former captains and ararchnatrons on floors leaving me much room to shoot everything in sight, even with archviles and nightmare archviles reviving lots of enemies. Admittedly, that didn't leave much room for anything else in my inventory.

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