Best Weapons?

[Jaybird3326]

I’ve been thinking about my hard point setup lately, and it occurred to me that I’ve really only ever used pulse lasers and multi cannons. Are there better weapons out there? If so, what are they? If someone could publish a guide to the best kinetic and thermal weapons, that would be amazing. (Maybe introduce a separate post and link to it in the comments? Please?)

Thanks everyone.

 

[Alex Brentnall]

All weapons are situational depending on skill, target and your own ship. There is no "best", although there are a lot of good ones.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/246086-Official-FDev-Damage-Stats-for-Every-Weapon

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=244308

If you are fighting NPCs then generally pulse lasers and multicannons are the best, if your distributor doesn't decrease too much change out pulse lasers with burst or beam until you hit a nice usage rate.

If you are fighting other players or NPCs that are bigger and badder than you then you want the low ammo high damage ones like plasma accelerators and railguns as these tear up bigger ships better. They are harder to hit with and very unreliable against small ships however.
Frag cannons can be very good kinetic damage dealers, again suffer a bit from ammo issues but are fun to use if you can avoid accidental friendly fire.
Explosive weapons are good for dealing hull damage and disabling external modules like enemy weapons, thrusters and the like. Not that deadly however and can be difficult to aim with if using fixed.


My best advice - Get a Vulture or Eagle (depending on your current bank balance) and try them out for yourself. Modules/weapons/utilities sell for 100% of their purchase value so provided you don't die you'll only spend money on ammo to try out the different setups. Just be sure to start easy against small enemies before trying new weapons against the biggest baddest ships

 

[Hossi]

If there was one 'Best Weapon' then the developers would have done a terrible work. There are good weapons and bad weapons, but what is the best depends on you preferences, skills and planed targets (the mission scenario so to say). And of course the ship you plan to put it on.

 

[zombieapocalypse]

PDTs. I just love watching the way they tear up limpets.

 

[Frenotx]

I’ve been thinking about my hard point setup lately, and it occurred to me that I’ve really only ever used pulse lasers and multi cannons. Are there better weapons out there? If so, what are they? If someone could publish a guide to the best kinetic and thermal weapons, that would be amazing. (Maybe introduce a separate post and link to it in the comments? Please?)

Thanks everyone.

That really depend on what ship you're using, how you tend to fly, and what you intend to fight.

 

[Jaybird3326]

If there was one 'Best Weapon' then the developers would have done a terrible work. There are good weapons and bad weapons, but what is the best depends on you preferences, skills and planed targets (the mission scenario so to say). And of course the ship you plan to put it on.

Could you give some example scenarios?

 

[Bryan K]

I almost always run with beam lasers and multi-cannons. Not sure if that’s the “best” setup, but it’s worked for me for over a year now on at least 4 ships.

 

[Warsaber]

I'm trying to decide between the new guardian weapons and Xeno weapons or engineer what i have, which is beam and multi cannons. I like to have something that deals with both Thargoids and other npc.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Weapons, like ships, are tools.

Need to pound a nail? Grab a wrench.

Need to turn a screw? Grab a caliper.

Need to cut a board? Grab a TIG welder.

That's just the thing about Elite - there are so many possibilities, to fit so many different needs.

Personally I'm fond of Plasma Accelerators and Rail Guns, but I also like Cannons, Beams, Missiles, and Frags.. just depends on the ship I'm flying and what I plan to do with it.

 

[cool_lad]

There's no outright best weapons, but we could give you advice regarding good weapons if you tell us your ship and playstyle.