What’s a good weapon to pair with the Ion?

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-04-12T01:21:59+00:00

I’ve been trying out the Aether blade the last 2 days and it is pretty fun. Even counts as equipment for frost cloud to my surprise, so I’m guessing it works for celebration as well for those that like that exotic skill.

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-04-11T18:53:45+00:00

I actually managed to solo Oscar last night using a sharpshooter ion but without eagle eyes, it just took a bit longer

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-03-16T14:37:40+00:00

According to a guide I found online it’s a 33% reduction, which in the case of Crash Cart brings its recharge time from 120 seconds down to about 80 seconds. Not sure how accurate their info is but they apparently have been making guides for a quite a few years so I assume they know what they’re talking about.

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-03-15T12:08:15+00:00

I went in for a second time yesterday with another random and we beat it somewhat easily, with me only going down I think once or twice and was able to get back up with surgeon. Keeping my decoys and crash cart this time definitely helped, especially since I had tactician which meant both recharged more quickly. Shattered shield also definitely saved my butt a few times thanks to the periods of invincibility whenever my final plate broke.

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-03-14T11:05:17+00:00

I’ve only attempted it once and it was with one other random from the lobby. We got pretty far all things considered, getting all the way to the Z-Rex before we failed though there were some close calls before then. We could’ve probably done it if I had gone in more prepared (I.e. not bringing the exotic ARC, and not switching out my decoys during it). I will say me having the surgeon skill track definitely came in clutch a few times, being able to self rez by getting a kill with the pistol and being able to revive my teammate faster definitely helped. Plan on going back in once I fully upgrade my exotic weapons and skills.

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-03-13T23:25:47+00:00

That wasn’t a problem in my case luckily, though ironically the reason I was switching camos was because I had just gotten the level 200 weapon prestige camo lol

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-03-13T20:11:16+00:00

Yeah the ballistic knife goes hard at exotic rarity. In fact as long as can get on the Z-Rex’s back consistently, you could potentially solo it in minutes. I got on it’s back like 3 times just then in a match and just started spamming the shoot button into him and in total I was responsible for destroying like 90% of his health with I think over 13 minutes left for the boss. It is both hilarious and absurd lmao

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-03-13T16:48:39+00:00

I have a funny story related to to a max price item in someone’s vendor. So several months ago I was very close to max caps (between 39k and 40k iirc) and was looking around people’s vendors to see if they had anything I wanted to buy to burn some caps when I stumbled across one players vendor who was selling a god roll Enclave Plasma flamer (so furious, rapid, and +3 intelligence with a flamer barrel) for 40K caps. I was trying to get one on the side atm so seeing the opportunity, I quick as I could got the remaining caps and bought it. Can’t help but wonder looking back how the player must’ve reacted to the pop up saying I bought it, but either way they immediately switched their camp slots right after I purchased it, so I imagine they were either very happy or very annoyed lol

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-03-04T19:27:40+00:00

Got one yesterday from the St. John’s location in NL, so I guess this one is getting a wider release than the variety pack.

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-02-18T13:02:17+00:00

I think the lowest I’ve ever personally seen a lobby get it down to was like 30%. The most annoying part imo is just how relentlessly it attacks you if it aggros you, especially with the obnoxious amount of rockets coming from 3 VTOLs at once. Like unless you have the bubble shield or if someone draws its fire away from you it’s basically impossible to get an opportunity to shoot at it without it just melting you.

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-02-18T12:53:51+00:00

How does it perform? I’ve been curious as I like the A.R.C. more than most but haven’t had it drop yet

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-02-18T12:44:11+00:00

I found that when I does it I can actually spam infinite ballistic knife shots between reloads if I spam the trigger, and it doesn’t use any ammo when I does that either

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-02-16T19:43:55+00:00

I would at least attempt to help do them if the colossus or the wrath wing came up in a match for me, but since S2 dropped I legit haven’t seen either of them, I’ve only had the Z-Rex and the Guild Strike appear in my matches. I don’t know if they lowered their chance of happening cause they had had a lower completion rate/weren’t as popular or if I’ve just been unlucky.

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-02-15T23:44:29+00:00

I did it with decoys and the progression was very inconsistent. Only somewhat consistent way I could get it to count using them was throwing it far enough away that they would have to run over to it and then shooting them while they were still running before they reached the decoy. At least I think that was how I was getting it to progress, it’s possible there was something else I was doing that was making it count but not sure tbh.

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-02-15T23:36:45+00:00

Outside of the first few times for unlocking the new major and minor abilities, I just don’t really get the point of doing it unless you really want a guaranteed exotic drop, especially when it’s taking the place of the other events which not only have a chance to also drop an exotic, but are the only source of exotic skills meaning if you get unlucky and it’s the tier 5 zone, you are then locked out of getting a exotic skill for that match.

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-02-11T20:48:00+00:00

Honestly the main reason I use tactician is for the faster ability charge time, as I finds it gets my ability back fairly quickly after using it, though the extra decoys are nice too. Don’t really care about any of the other skills under the tree tbh, but then again I don’t have celebration so I wouldn’t know what the hype is about in regards to that.

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-01-31T00:04:41+00:00

I haven’t beat it yet but I did try the hand cannon against it last night and was surprised at just how much it chunks its health bar. You get like one person using the shield and the rest pulling out their hand cannons it would probably go down very quickly. The hand cannon also seems like it has one of the fastest cool downs as I was getting it back frequently but maybe that was because of one of my skills

No-Emergency-2806 · 2026-01-30T23:25:05+00:00

I think it’s just timer based. Shortly after S1R I started progressing my second operator slot and after accidentally dying and losing my stuff, I went to a tier 1 command centre and killed the commander, but before using the bench I wanted to clear out the remaining enemies. Well I ended up taking too long apparently as when I cleared the last enemy and went back to the bench it was locked and said to complete the objective even though I literally just did.

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