- Shai Hulud
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- Exalted Mythic Member
With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.
This is a little something for those who have trouble using the needler in MP (I haven't seen anyone post this in defending the usefulness of the needler in previous threads, but if they did, and I didn't catch it, I apologize):
Don't use its full rate of fire. When face to face with someone, shoot it like Grunts do on Legendary. Or, shoot it in bursts of automatic fire. This works better because each new needle seeks out the enemies new location when the enemy is trying to dodge. Using full RoF does this, but each consecutive needle fired fast like that is too close to the same tragectory as the first (sorry if I explained badly). That allows the enemy to dodge them easier, because its more like dodging a single needle, since the tragectories are so close. If fired slower, the tragectories of needles are more different, so the chance that the enemy dodges all of them is decreased (you only need 7 needles in them to do good damage (since 7 causes an explosion). That won't kill them but it'll give you time to go in for a melee, since the explosion hazes their screen with a pretty purple color).
However, if the enemy doesn't know you are within firing range, and isn't paying attention to you, then by all means go all out and load them up with 20 of them suckers.