- Scout Rifle,

Do not fancy these. :-/ Used a couple for a while, even got the VoG one, but it's just not a good fit for me.

- Auto Rifle,

Shadow Price has been my go to for a long time now. Got two reload speed upgrades on the SP with a bonus from armor too. When there's a crowd, the clip feels bottomless. Looking forward to Hard Light. SUROS Regime sounds like a pop gun. :P

- Pulse Rifle,

Trying out the Super Pox VLO right now. Feels good. MASSIVE gun. Will be a good non-Shadow Price primary weapon when I'm rocking an Exotic Secondary or Heavy.

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- Shotgun,

The Comedian with grenade cooldown perk. Great weapon, and helps me keep tossing those flash bangs. Taken the top spot from Invective!

- Sniper Rifle,

Ice Breaker because I hate looking for secondary ammo. Epitaph has been a great one too; my version has ammo bonuses from killing and missing enemies, along with AP ammo. Good Crucible option when I'm rocking The Last Word.

- Fusion Rifle,

Don't use these very much, but enjoying Plan C when I do. 'Scuse me while I whip-oh god it fired already.

- Rocket Launcher
Hezen Vengeance.

Bro fist. Bring the boom.

- Heavy Machine Gun

The Swarm. It's not a machine gun, it's a hand held AA cannon. Mine has a magazine upgrade, as well as grenade cooldown. So nice.

What are your favorite weapons?

No hand cannons for you, Pete? :P I've been utterly unable to put down The Last Word. Working on the last couple damage upgrades right now, and it's just so good. PvE, PvP, doesn't matter. Make like the Flintstones and bambambambam.

One side note: it's so pleasing to Shoulder Charge a larger enemy, then spin out The Last Word and finish him off. So. Cool.

Suros Regime:

Not sure why you don't like Suros. It can stagger bosses, so it makes certain strikes a breeze if you essentially stun lock them (I always pull it out for the archon priest for example.) Also good in PvP.

Red Death:

I like Read Death on Mars fighting the Cabal. Great in crucible too.

Devil You Know:

Really nice hand canon. Great impact and light. This is my most used primary.

Fair and Square:

A decent alternative to Red Death if you want to use a different exotic. Less recoil too.

Truth:

Pretty much the best rocket launcher in PvP without question.

Atheon's Epilogue:

I think other than Corrective measure, this does the most DPS to Oracles. Always in my hands for the Atheon fight, but doesn't really have a place anywhere else except for void burn strikes.

Icebreaker:

An essential tool! More like GAMEbreaker!

Found Verdict:

A great arc shotgun.

Comedian:

A little easier to hit stuff with than found verdict, since mine has the shot package perk. Solar.

Zombie Apocalypse:

This gun is great all around, and is a nice balance between damage and rate of fire. I have one in all three elements.

The Swarm:

Also a good HMG, if you don't mind the slow aiming. I prefer Zombie because it's snappier, but if you can reduce the aiming time (for example with blade dancer's quick draw), it's really good too.

Praedyth's revenge:

Probably the best PvP sniper. Low recoil, and fast firing.

The Calming:

I know some people like 77 Wizard's impact better, but the Calming has a really low charge time that I prefer. I can easily solo the minotaurs during the gatekeeper fight even on hard with it.

What are your favorite weapons?

Whatever ones kill the most effectively.

My fully upgraded Last Word is my third child.

I also like The Devil You Know when I need a little more range and precision. Plus that 12 round magazine is great. On Friday I finished the Thorn bounty and it's been very underwelming.

I recently got a Strange Suspect pulse rifle in an engram. It's got the perk that does extra critical damage after body shots, plus stability maxed out and third eye. I'm going to make this my primary crucible pulse rifle for my warlock. I have Bad Juju. It's fun, but they really need to increase the magazine size. If they do that then I will use it a lot more.

I have The Swarm in two flavors and use it more than any other machine gun. I like the slow firing ones. If there was a legendary version of Xerxes I would use it.

I really like Truth as my PvP rocket launcher. It's stupid easy to get kills with. Hopefully Xur with sell Gjallerhorn again. I missed it the first time around.

I haven't settled on a shotgun. I have a sidewinder with really good range that I use for PvP. I just can't get Invective to work for me. I would like to pick up Dead Orbit's shotgun, but I've been spending crucible marks on other stuff and they're worse than the Cryptarch when it comes to packages when leveling up.

I've just now been able to get full Legendary gear, so pardon me if I don't give many names just yet. :p

Disclaimer: I don't do Crucible. All my favorites are based solely on PvE experience.

My favorite primary are, by far, Scout Rifles. My current cherished one is the A.1F19X-Ryl. While Firefly's damage is below what I expected (much like with you), it staggers fools. Best. Perk. Ever. Thralls haven't been a worry in mind since I got Firefly working. :)

My favorite special is, also by far, Fusion Rifles. Took me a while to get used to them (those Overcharged bounties sure helped out), but, my god, it's full of stars. They're pretty much my "oh shit, I'm being blitzed" get-out-of-jail card. Something tells me what Shotguns are missing is over-penetration. Are there any that have that perk?

Finally, I don't have a particular favorite heavy type. I like the slow-firing MGs and RLs alike. Just bought Truth and will see how that goes. So far, the projectile speed isn't very promising, but maybe it takes me into Crucible one day. Hope I get a Gjallarhorn soon.

Anything that helps me make explosions where there wouldn't traditionally be explosions is a favorite for me. Because... explosions.

That's actually about it right now.

INSANEdrive want make Big Boom. :D

For the sake of particulars:

• A.1F19X-Ryl Scout Rifle with Firefly.
  
• Icebreaker Exotic Sniper.
  
• Sir Isaac with Explosive Rounds.

...ect.

Also any gun with Specialized Animations for that weapon (Such as Last Word ...which I have yet to get), and Fusion Rifles because its like explosions.

For PvE
A1 Scout Rifle because well explosions and armor piercing
Ice Breaker for ammo regen
The Admonisher RL big bada boom and find more ammo for this

For PvP
Shadow Price is very nice, but having the small clip version sucks
Comedian with xtra large clip 6 or 7 rounds?
Truth RL proximity explosions

Anybody have a recommendation for a fast firing shotty? I usually keep mine for a backup so I don't really need the large clip. I just like to whip it out when I see my radar go red up close. I usually stay away from folks in PvP.

Lord High Fixer. I freakin love hand cannons and this is the best one I have at the moment. 13 round mag is great and the damage bonus when reloading after a kill make this my clear choice primary weapon when I don't need to be dealing elemental damage all the time.

Vision of Confluence. I preferred scout rifles over all else during the beta, but have gravitated more to hand cannons in the final release. This gun is making me fall in love with scout rifles all over again though.

Icebreaker. No explanation necessary. No other gun is as essential to have at your ready, especially if you want to solo the high-level strikes.

Praedyth's Revenge. Holy crap this gun is stable! Non-existent recoil on a fast-firing sniper rifle. Oh, and it has "firefly" too! The only reason this isn't always in my primary slot is because Icebreaker's regenerating ammo is so damn handy.

Thunderlord. This beast feels and sounds amazing, and the slow but precise rate of fire almost make it like a powerful scout rifle. I can usually one-shot enemies in the head and everybody around can hear and immediately know what gun I'm using. Unfortunately, I almost always have an exotic equipped in my primary or secondary slot so I rarely take the opportunity to take it out for playtime.

If/when I get a Hawkmoon, you can probably disregard all of the above.. :-)

- Scout Rifle,

- The Calling (FWC): With the Firefly & Last Round perks. I team this with either Field Scout or High Caliber rounds depending on the situation. This thing is amazing.

- I also really like the MIDA Multi-Tool. I'm still leveling this up. but for PvP it's been great.

- Hoping to get Vision of Confluence someday........

- Auto Rifle,

- Suros Regime is my go to. It's just a beast in PvP and does a great job in PvE. I just prefer to have an exotic in either the Secondary or Heavy slots.

- Atheon's Epilogue. I hated this until I got it fully leveled. but once you get the stabilization on it this turns into an awesome PvE weapon.

- Hard Light: It's blast to use but I'm still leveling it up. Should be great once I get it upgraded.

- Khvostov 7G-01: a Level 1 - 20 Attack auto rifle that can wreck face in PvP. I use this more for amusement then anything when playing crucible.

- Pulse Rifle,

- Strangers Rifle (Why can't this be a legendary weapon?!?!?!). A lot of fun in PvP.

- Red Death was fun for a week. But once I got into scout rifles I haven't seen a use for pulse rifles.

- Hand Cannons,

- The Devil You Know: With the speed reload perk and field scout I absolutely love playing with that.

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- Shotgun,

- Are these a thing? I haven't been a big fan of them so I don't even know what's good or bad. I have 3 legendary Shotguns that I level when turning in bounties but I've never really used them.

- Sniper Rifle,

- Ice Breaker: unlimited ammo..... enough said.

- Preadyth's Revenge: Super low recoil sniper with a 6 round magazine. That's hard to beat for both PvE & PvP

- Fusion Rifle,

- I love them... but I can't tell you the difference in them at all.

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- Rocket Launcher

- Unfriendly Giant (Engram Versions). The Unfriendly Giant when it has the tracking perk is my go to rocket launcher (coupled with Ice Breaker). The two round magazine and fire and forget capability is hard to stop.

- Gjallarhorn: When you need massive amounts of damage....

- Heavy Machine Gun

- The Swarm: The best PvP machine gun around. If you tap the trigger you can almost use this as a scout rifle in PvP & PvE.

I did once have a Hand Cannon, forgot the name of it, but the reload speed jumped exponentially with precision kills. And I got off on that.

POW, POW, POW! Instant reload, POW POW POW POW!!

Unfortunately, it didn't grow up with me, so I had to dump it. I now own a Fair and Square that treats me real well. Just fully upgraded it yesterday--perfect 300. Reload speed is pretty nice. Here's where the Fair and Square part shows up--it is insanely powerful, but it is slow as fuck. Which is why I still lose every single Crucible battle I get--they have Auto Rifles and Scattershots and Binary Rifles.

I always switch between a Hieracon LR5 and a Light/Beware depending on the battle I now face ahead. Both serve me well. No complaints there.

For heavy, I always keep a constant rotation between the Painted Camelot SA/4(3 shells), the Sultan SA/5(homing, always the best option), the Super Good Advice(great for Strike Bosses), and of course...the Unfriendly Giant.

Hand Cannon

The Devil You Know. Huge damage, range and accuracy boosts, and a 12-shot mag. This is the gun Scout Rifles want to be when they grow up.

Scout Rifle

I didn't use them for a long time, but I recently got A.1F19X-Ryl in a drop. Mine also has firefly and final round. Firefly's fun. Doesn't get me a lot of kills when fighting leveled enemies, but it's useful for staggering and just a bit of extra damage.

I actually use Field Scout on mine, which doesn't make a lot of sense given the final round perk, but I think I get more use out of those extra bullets than I do out of one boosted bullet.

Auto Rifle

I have a Shadow Price now, I was using Grim Citizen before that. Both are slower-firing and stable. They're practically identical rifles but the Shadow Price I got has grenadier, which is super useful for both of my Warlock setups.

Pulse Rifle

Again, I didn't use these much for a long time, but recently got Fair & Square from an engram. Seems decent if you can speed up the reload.

I also have Bad Juju, but bluerunner's right - it needs a bigger magazine. The perk is fun when it happens, but as the gun is right now, it just doesn't reliably get kills before the mag runs out. You spend more time reloading than shooting.

Shotgun

Found Verdict. I like the way it handles and the fact that it actually resembles a plain old present-day pump shotgun. Makes it seem like something that's probably been around since the collapse, or longer.

I get more use out of my Comedian because it's void and I use it in the raid, but if I had a void version of Found Verdict I'd be using it.

Runner-up: Universal Remote. It's not as strong per shot as the special-slot shotguns, but the abundance of primary ammo makes up for that, and the change in playstyle that it allows is a lot of fun.

Sniper Rifle

I have an Ice Breaker because of the utility it offers, but beyond that I just don't use sniper rifles.

Fusion Rifle

Light/BEWARE. This was my original anti-wizard gun before Gjallarhorn. Its excellent range and stability lets it hit them from a safe distance. Last night I played the nightfall strike almost exclusively using this gun (used A.1F19X-Ryl to wear down the bigger enemies from a distance) to get kills for the Pocket Infinity bounty, and ended up soloing it. It's fairly easy to knock enemies out from beyond their firing range with this.

Rocket Launcher

Gjallarhorn. Standard generic answer, but true. The destruction that thing can cause is comical.

HMG

Deviant Gravity. Very slow-firing, heavy-hitting, and stable. This is the sort of HMG that you can point at a boss's crit spot and reliably keep it there while firing. Maybe more importantly, you can keep it pointed at oracles. Mine's void, so it always comes with me in the Vault anyway. No anti-oracle bonus of course, but it's so accurate that it really doesn't need any.

Ok I promise this will be the last time I gush over it (totally lying btw) but I realized something.

This thing is basically if the Halo 1 pistol and ODST's Automag had a baby, and that baby went to Harvard.