Beam Rifle: Boring as &*$%£?

[TheMoneyMaker]

15 hours ago, Zhym said:

Because then I'd have to make her Pipi LePew-Pew-Pew, and that's just over the top.

Sounds like escalating pew-pew warfare, and I'm all for it.

[Triumphant]

I like beam rifle.  It looks and sounds just like what I would expect a beam rifle to look and sound like.  Also, it's highly effective.  Having said that, there are probably plenty of people that share your veiwpoint.  Neither of us are wrong.  Both of us are right, because that is our actual experience in using the powerset.

 

I have a similar dislike (well, my reasons for disliking it are different than your reasons for disliking beam rifle, but still) for bio armor.  Bio armor is widely (and correctly) touted as being  a great armor set.  But I don't like the look of it (though that is much improved with minimal effect settings) and I find it even more fiddly and clicky to use than rad armor, which is sort of at the outside limits of what I can handle with an armor set (though I'm levelling a regen armor character now, and trying to overcome this deficiency, because I really love the idea of the set).

Point is, it's totally okay for people to hate the things I like or vise-versa.  This game has a little something for all tastes.  Keep trying AT's and powersets, eventually you're bound to find something that's perfect (or near perfect) for you play style and preferences (probably,  you have your favorties already.  Some of these might be sets that are not thought of as being more popular power sets.  I know that I love Street Justice with a passion that is proportionately disparate from it's actual level of combat performance, for example.  But the reason I love it is not because it's the highest DPS combat set, but because the look and feel of the animations perfectly emulate the thing that it is trying to emulate.

Any and all of the above is okay, of course.  This game caters to all comic-booky tastes.  That's part of what's so great about it. 😎