Forum:SMGs And Why I think They Are Too Powerful

I love playing as Lilith, partly because I like her skillset, partly because I like her Action skill, but mostly because I love SMGs. I've been comparing the top-quality SMGs and Machine Guns that I find, since I often play with a friend who prefers Roland (I save good MGs for him), and I gotta say, the only thing that Machine guns beat SMGs on is clip size. The SMGs tend to have better accuracy, most I found between 78-90, while machine guns have around 70-85 for the most part. Damage wise, Machine guns and SMGs seem to me on about the same level, with a few exceptions. The problem is that SMGs have a hell of a faster fire rate, and have quick reload times, thus offsetting the magazine size issue. So, add this to better accuracy, and it's easy to see why SMGs have higher damage output.

Now, to top this thing off, Lilith can increase the fire rate of all weapons (the Quicksilver skill is only 1st level too!), and a skill for adding to bullet velocity and firepower. (I'm not going to talk about the +SMG damage Class Mod, since those exist for Roalnd's Machine guns)

To give you a base comparison, my lv40 character is running around with a SMG of 146 firepower, and 90 accuracy with a fire rate of 14!. True, it's only got a clip of 28, but so what? Reload is frekin fast (especially compared to Machine Guns), while my friend's Machine gun has about 150 damage, and maybe 8 fire rate, and 85 accuracy.

Yeah, I know I've only compared SMGs to machine guns. The problem is that I haven't found any really good assault rifles either (the burst or pounders). They just can't match the damage output. Revolvers usually are far more powerful, but fire too slow, and only have up to 6 rounds. Snipers face the same problems as revolvers. Shotguns just can't match the accuracy, and thus, range of an SMG. Rocket Launchers are more powerful, but with longer reloads, and rounds that move slowly and miss easily, they aren't as useful. And I'm not going to compare repeaters, they don't really stand up.

So, What I'm saying is, SMGs are THE go-to weapon of the game, and seem to be able to outdo damage from everything else i've seen. Anyone noticed the same thing, or am I just encountering some sort of a anomaly?ZenonSeth 11:22, May 29, 2010 (UTC)