Contemplating starting to play again, thinking of possible builds. I know the progression for blades and whips fairly well, less so pistols and even less so rifles. What would the best early grinding weapon for rifles be?
10/22 or even better the american 180.
How much would a 180 cost (I assume I'd have to buy it from a corpstore), how high can you grind with it, and how many rounds are in a clip? Given the .22 pancake clips are $330 a piece...
I cannot decide whether to go crafter again, and try to actually focus on crafting/brains stuff this time, rather than just raping everything with a flamechain (are those still readily available?), or to go for a rifle wielding combat build... Or to awkwardly try to do both in the same character, of course that would fall into "jack of all trades, master of none" territory, and it would be an ungodly bitch to grind up the stats for even the combat side, if I took the maximum starting brains (crafting being more or less diametrically opposed to a cool/reflexes/brawn build you need for blades, pistols, and rifles, with it's focus on brains/senses; the only overlap is with the reflexes needed for whips).
The only pure combat build I tried was a blade user, who sucked, partially due to my inexperience, partially due to being unable to repair weapons (and lacking the brains to feint, which was one of the biggest advantages my last character had; *feint* *powerattack* "gg"), and partially due to my inexperience. I had a very hard time training up pistols because overall I had a lot of money problems, and couldn't really afford ammo when almost every single shot missed, nor to replace my gun after it began constantly jamming after a while (and I couldn't repair it myself, since I lacked the brains and repair to do so). It didn't help that the corp I was (KREW with that character) in wasn't really that helpful (at least compared to the one my other character was in (BF1), where if I ever ran into trouble (like breaking my arm grinding climb, and ending up stuck in the abandoned skyscraper (a manager ran over, slapped an insta-cast on me, and opened a portal out), or getting killed by an ancient one (the ceo defibbed me and killed it)) someone would come and help me out, or the random gifts of high end gear (as far as I could tell it was basically "I don't need this, and don't need the money from selling it, I just killed the npcs that drop it for shits and giggles and to stop CORP from getting it")). KREW also took 10% of contract earnings (why I can't imagine, given that Twerp was apparently one of the most powerful players in the game), whereas BF1 took nothing... Actually, I'm not sure if KREW was just unhelpful, or if BF1 just happened to be excellent...
I suppose I'm mostly intrigued by rifles due to the EMP shotguns, though I also like the generally high damage they sport.