Need help preparing for True Darkness

[ShynForce]

Hey sup everyone well if anyone here seen my previous post they will know that i recently just change to a fortegunner. At the moment the main bullets I've been working on are frozen shot burn shot for my rifle and ice/ground shotty. My frozen shot is 23 burn shot is 13 ice shotty is 18 ground shotty is 23. Now im looking at some info on true darkness and it seems like the mission will be tight lv80 enemies on S more money and better drops so im assuming people will be doing this mission mostly.

Now im kinda worried that i wont be much help there since i just started a fortegunner and working on bullets the only light bullet i have is my twin rising and thats lv12. So im wondering will i still be able to help out the team with what i have or should i start raising a light rifle shot or light shotty. Also i dont have a Arank dark armor and i mainly use my phantom line but im assuming i should do fine without a dark armor since im range.

[xennec]

I don't really see how a light rifle bullet would be that helpful because rifle takes a long time to level up and its more for SE than damage (not that it's weak, but not a mega damage output like shottys). I would say use things like fire on your rifle. Light would be nice for shotty considering it can be one of the most destructive weapons in the game and they level up REALLY fast. These are just my opinions though.

[Genoa]

yeah I wouldn't worry about light rifle, I have a light shotty for 2 reasons,
1. It confuses many mobs, keeping them off of me longer AND smacking around the un-confused mobs around them delaying them as well.
2. Cuz it whoops in SEED missions! xD

I like Burn or Infection on my rifle. I see too many Ice users going for high damage. You're only going to do high damage to fire types (and yeah, I know there's a million fire types) but I only level one PA per weapon type at a time, so I'm sticking with Fire (my Crossbow has Infection, therefore my Rifle needed Burn).

As my f-Beast lvl.60/10fG using 9*shotty w/lvl.24 Barada Yoga w/shifta 21+ against lvl.35 SEED mobs usually does about 200, to 250 dmg per bullet.

I would however maybe recommend something like... Light grenades or light laser cannon? Perhaps... a Light shotty is good enough imo.

I don't think enough people go for SE's with rangers. I don't understand, they're the only class that uses ATP-based weaponry that can add a heavy amount of Status effects as well. Forces do a great job and all, but they don't go for SE, they go for tech dmg and JUST SO HAPPEN to maybe have SE's on the tech weakness they're casting.

If you need to shock a bunge of guys, then spread Plasma Fury or something, don't go soley on damage, Rangers are a HUGE support class. PSU rangers are COMPLETELY different than PSO rangers now.

Use the shotty for your damage. But out other guns to help your hunters :>

[ShynForce]

Yea that sounds good i dont have a light shotty but im thinking about investing in one. I use ice rifle for the dmg against fire types and to freeze large enemies. I was working on burn shot with my rifle but i think burn on a xbow would be better so thats what im working on now. Since rifles take so long to lv i might just get my burn shot to 21 just for the lv4 status effect. Right now im working on a lighting xbow to spread shock around and i have burn and dark xbow my burn is lv11 dark is still lv1 didnt start working on it yet.

Yea i notice that shottys is my dmg dealing weapon so light on the shotty sounds nice i need to get it to at least 11 so i can have 4bullets as for my rifle i think i will still get burn to 21. IMO xbows are better for putting SE but rifles do good dmg flinch and can get lv4 SE so i will still use fire ice and dark on it. On my xbow i plan on having fire dark lighting and have my shotty with light ice and ground.

P.S Xbows lv hella fast i should have these to 21 before true darkness come out.

[Genoa]

well I dunno about xbow's leveling FAST, but they're not as painful as Rifles imo. I rushed shotty to 21 quite easily. Almost there with my xbow. I made my f-cast about 2 weeks ago and got lvl.14 fire rifle, 21 light shotty, 14 dark xbow, 9 zap mechgun, 10 rising strike, 9 (dagger one that sends enemies flying w/first strike), 7 laser cannon, 7 grenade launcher.

The rifle got to 14 mostly because of rushing HSM's =/

[Hrith]

Rising Shot is the best PA for the boss ;s

Mayalee Shot is probably the closest to Rising Shot.

[panzer_unit]

I'd say grab Rising Prism but you're going to need to level it to 11 at least before it's really useful. Lasers don't have problems doing damage, but the ATA% on low level skills is really the pits and some of those HIVE monsters have huge evade.

[SolomonGrundy]

don't you want range when fighting falkis? To stay away from his attacks? I know in his first form, I hang near the door and First Person mode is face/arms in a way I could not do with twins, or a shotty.

[Genoa]

I would still disagree with twin handguns on fG =/ I would just use another rifle in it's place.