The commonly agreed build for gunners seems to be either Gold RoF/Armor/Accuracy, with a mixture of difference choices to fill up the silver and bronze slots. I've been messing around and I've tried Gold Critical/Silver RoF/Bronze Accuracy and I find the Gold Critical shots seem to boost the damage dramatically, without gunner deploy. While Critical shot is random, it seems to happen too often with it as gold endorsement. My question is to people who main gunner, is Gold Critical worth it or is it still better to run accuracy? I find gold accuracy damage output to be mildly different in it's effectiveness after the Title update and I have no interest in running Gold Armor. There's no percentages to justify it's value so the best I can do is ask for the opinion of the community. This also goes to my assault build with Gold RoF/Silver Accuracy/Bronze Critical shots. Since there's no actual percentage that goes with the assault's passive critical shot boost and bronze critical shot boost, I cannot truly justify the worthiness of adding it as a bronze endorsement. Let me know what people think, and thank you for reading. Amen.
Im wondering something similar - on my assault I feel naked without my gold Armour and feel like without silver acc I spray everywhere....so its just the bronze endorsement up for debate for me. ROF seems obvious but even if it seems weird not to run ROF, Bronze crits seem to be doing ok...curious if anyone else used bronze crits/if this is even worth running on bronze
That is the only Gunner that I play. I love gold Crits. Try deploying, nothing but a stream of purple.
This. Never been outdone by another Gunner after using Gold Crits and Deploy, with the sole exception of lDeadeye and Futtbuck, who are well-known to main the Gunner.
If you play a gunner that uses the mortar and deploy to his fullest potential, Crit/RoF or Rof/Crit is amazing for the gold silver slots. Gold Crit mortars are stupid awesome, as are gold RoF mortars. I don't know how it matches up vs good accuracy gunners but it tears EVERYTHING ELSE to shreds (including juiced players) if you are smart about your deploy usage. I do love armor on my non-crit gunner, though its not to the point where I feel naked without it like a tank or assassin.
The original intend of Gold Critical Shots and Silver Fire Rate was for the intend of gunner deploy and it truly does massive damage. One question hasn't been answered and that is the gunners dual-mini gun without deploy. I feel as if, without deploying, my bullets tear apart other gunners who have gold accuracy and gold armor. And obviously catching unaware pros or catching pros at an open spot with gunner deploy can instantly tear them apart, but you have to consider your entire surrounding and risk when doing so. There will be, without a doubt, other variables that had decided the outcome of the battle though. Amen.
Well first off Gold Rate of Fire really is not worth it on gunner unless your sole intention is to mortar. My problem with gold crit is that it just relies to much on chance, I want a consistent outcome so I can know for sure whether to stay to fight or run for cover. Currently I run my old fashion Gold Armor Silver Rof and Bronze accuracy and never run into an problems unless the other gunner is a proficient gold accuracy user. If they are using gold accuracy, I just pull out my Gold Accuracy Silver ROF + any bronze to maximize damage output. Also, what works for you, works for you. If you really feel that Gold ROF makes enough difference for you, use it. (Although it really only makes a difference compared to silver ROF before dual minis)
Dual minis, although aren't necessarily ALWAYS needed, are still wise to upgrade first when playing a Gold Crit gunner, as a smart Crit + Deploy Gunner doesn't spend the whole game deployed. When not deployed, a single-mini with crit can be outdone by a dual-mini non-crit (assuming the Gunner with duals knows what they are doing). I tend to run Gold: Criticals // Silver: Armor // Bronze: Rate of Fire, and I tend to do fairly well against most pros, including (most) other Gunners. I sacrifice Accuracy in this build, which ends up in me having trouble across longer ranges against accuracy-endorsed Gunners, but gives me the upper hand against other Crit + RoF Gunners in close- and mid-range. It's all about how you play Gunner that decides your build, truly. Since I use Deploy and prefer close- to mid-range combat, crits makes a big part of my build. If you want more long-range combat, probably an Accuracy + RoF build would work better.
I tried gold crits today. I was in the yellow, pre-revving and tore up another (full health) gunner. I love gold crits forever.
i've been using gol acc silver rof bronze armor for a while now. but i'm gonna try gold crits silver rof bronze acc or armor
I used to run Crt/Armor/Clip before the patch and it was extremely effective when I had the dual mini and was in deploy 2. The only problem is its like playing a wild west shoot out. If you deploy and shoot before the other team shoot you win. Reason being when you deploy you decrease the damage done per shot. Not many people realize it.. cuts the bullet damage in half.
I love using Gold crits or accuracy on my Gunner build, but the main problem is that Gunner is just so slow and bulky, not running Armor Gold or silver gets me killed a lot more. Granted, I have higher kill games, but my K/D takes a drop. But the 3 main Gunner builds out there seem to be: Armor RoF Acc Acc Armor/RoF RoF/Crit Crit Rof Acc
