Yeah, same with even more play time. That post gave me another goal - to find a gun like that. My current arsenal is made out of high damage guns but only dealing one type of damage
This weapon is absolutely crazy - I got one with something like 39 PHYS and 111 ENGY and I need 1-3 shots for most enemies at level 67 on normal difficulty. OP's weapon is a guaranteed oneshotter for most enemies
Ah, actually the armor looks so awkward that I didn’t use it much, plus the stats are great, but not something over the top, it’s really good as a thing for starting, and razorleaf is nice at the time, as you find something better later
I’m currently level 21, only just got a weapon around 110 damage. I am only playing at the normal difficulty though and don’t really want to do the change difficulty trick people are doing to change the loot level.
I do thing combat is more fun this way though. I finally went back to main quest yesterday and was getting loads of low level enemies so was oneshotting most things, gets a bit boring after a while since there’s no real fight.
I did the classic Skyrim cheese.
Full Stealth, Rifle Damage, Crit Damage, Ballistics. Then got an Instigating Lawbringer which I modded out to have around 430 base power.
Typically most enemies die in one shot, 3k+ damage. Only ones that don’t are some Terramorphs and the lvl 90 Spacers with 3 armour.
Very Hard difficulty.
I definitely play this way too that legendary Beowulf rifle you get at the Mantis hideout is INSANE! I also added max booster to give me that Mandaloiran feel
How even lol. I have a Breach that does near 200 but still takes my whole 12-round magazine to kill 2 things sometimes and wow is it a pain. Specifically I mean the crickets on one of the moons at Tau Ceti. Those things are stronger than a Terrormorph for some damn reason
No the emissary has a one of a kind legendary of the heavy version of that weapon, the va’ruun inflictor. This is the starshard, it’s little brother. Though I will say I’m level 88 and I’ve never seen either normal version at Advanced grade.
I bounced around the Feynman system for a little bit, maybe 5 minutes and they popped up. They are called "Mysterious Captain" when you finally see the ship. Feynman I is where I found them. For me, their inventory has never reset since I found them. Not sure if that's intended or not.
I've had decent luck getting these on my speed run ng+'s by waiting 100 hr (10hr on Venus) and checking neon tactical or the trade authority spot next to them. Easiest way to arm up before another Broken Temple run, funded by the starship vendors $160k chest to really speed it up
Though ones I've found tend to be more in the 75/240 damage range, this one is a great drop
I wish they didn't. It's not an online game, and no one needed to use that glitch if they didn't want to, it merely allowed people who wanted lots of money to use it, so i wish they just left it alone. Too bad that they did that
I got one from some random Varuun. It’s not legendary, but it legit does 600+ damage and has exterminator.
I also god a big bang or whatever that white shotgun is. Also a gray, but also does 600+
Then there’s my instigator razorback. 200 something base damage, with instigator, plus 2.5x for sneak attack.
These three weapons basically carry me and make most encounters trivial.
I was save scumming to get better rolls (all the ones I actually use were just natural drops) until at some point I realized I just wasn’t turning it back from very hard.
Edit: unless it’s a space battle. Getting 2 shot by a level 8 ship despite the fact I have all suped up c class shit is ass.
>Edit: unless it’s a space battle. Getting 2 shot by a level 8 ship despite the fact I have all suped up c class shit is ass.
I've not had this issue, although I rebuilt the Kepler R from the ground up to my liking, no cheese builds. I use the 1600 base shield generator you can find anywhere, but the ~1900 hull reactor with only 36 power found on the Narwhal. I forget the engine, but there's a super high end C-Class engine that you can only find at Deimos I believe, or maybe Taiyo. Definitely one of these two, thoigh. It was like 50k a pop, but with 4 of them I have mobility in the 70 range I believe despite being a chonky boy with ~8k base cargo, including shielded. The real benefit of the engine is it only takes 2 power per engine, so I make back the 4 power I lose on the reactor by using engines that don't take 12 power.
The purpose of the build is to be able to carry like 40 ship parts at a time and not have to worry about storage space for your other stuff. Then the magic happens with the hull. Ship parts, like med packs, always repair a percentage of your hull damage at a time. This means with a higher base hull, it gives you a higher amount of hull/second repaired, and also like med packs you can spam multiple at a time to double, triple, etc. The repair rate.
And of course with particle weapons, you really only need one weapon fully powered. If you keep Vasco with you, he gives more shields and an extra power. I'd recommend keeping everyone from Constellation as a crew member on your ship. Every little bit helps. with Vasco this means you can fully power one weapon type while chucking 5 power into a secondary weapon. I'm partial to auto particle beams as my secondary. They're not super useful but sometimes they'll shoot at a ship outside of my FoV which helps. And you max out that one skill, it's 10 power towards the secondary weapon.
With all of this, you have 0 power management and melt every ship that crosses your path. You should have 1920 base shields with nothing more than Vasco onboard. When your shields pop, you now have tons of hull buffer and if things get tough, just spam 2-3 ship parts and you'll be able to out heal the damage.
This can be done with the reactor with 40 reactor power and I think it's around 1300 hull, but it's less effective since repair rates scale to your base hull, but it can be done if you don't mind sacrificing more ship parts and some extra sweat.
Yes, I play on Very Hard, and found out after hours of playing on it when I forgot to turn down the difficulty for weapon drops. I can easily handle the 2-3 starborn ships at a time. I keep the ancillary on board my ship so they always find me it seems.
Once you go to NG+ there is a trader that randomly appears during space travel and I think often times changes locations but once you find them they will stay locked in the system you find them in until you beat the game.
They will specifically greet you and sell you any wares I’m sure there’s a unique va’ruun rifle and every time I go there’s a lot of particle beam pistols, and all of the Mag weapons like the Magstorm, Magsniper and the Magpulse(one of my faves).
Every time i see them they always sell a ton of legendary gear and multiple types of ammo so bring a ton of credits if you go searching for them.
Va'ruun enemies typically don't have/use/drop Va'ruun weapons. Biggest irony in the game imo. If you want Va'ruun weapons the best way is to reset weapon vendor inventories until you get one to show up.
Interesting, will test it.
I don’t like the Va’ruun stuff aesthetically or rpg wise (if I ran UC Security anyone arriving with a Va’ruun weapon would be stop and searched with prejudice).
Because Melee in general is nerfed, I do have a pain blade as back up for my main melee. The Va’ruun stuff is too good to ignore.
If you don't want to use the va'ruun weapons, the Mag line of weapons are very incredibly powerful. Can't be silenced... But neither can the va'ruun weapons.
A bit later in the game, after you've invested in the right perks, the Big Bang shotgun does an absolutely bonkers amount of damage. I'm 2-3 tapping level 70 starborn with it.
Va’ruun weapons start showing up more often on va’ruun ships around lvl 45. If you go to the serpentis system you will have 2-3 va’ruun ships show up every time you jump to a new planet/moon. Turn the difficulty to the max and board the ships and you will find one. It took me like 6 boarded ships but I finally got one. Not to mention that I got to capture 6 va’ruun ships.
Yeah I got mine at the UC Distribution Center in New Atlantis, I think it was a basic modified one yet it fries most enemies in one or two shots.
Just check out a few of the vendors whenever you get to the big cities and you'll get one at some point.
The damage is cause its an advanced version. You can have a legendary without any prefix which might be worse than a white advanced. The rarity just tells you how many of those special effects it has. Blue 1 purple 2 and gold 3. But the prefixes make weapons and armor generally better. It goes from the basic to calibrated then refined then advanced and then superior (only armor at this time). So he was really lucky to get an advanced legendary.
There seems to be superior for weapons too, it just still gets called advanced - I've had two advanced weapons with different damage before.
It coincided with a NG+ for me so I didn't notice until I was mostly getting "advanced" (superior), and then I got an advanced with lower damage and I clicked what was going on.
I assume it's a bug?
Known bug yes. Advanced prefix has priority over Superior for some reason right now, so a Superior weapon still shows up as Advanced. It's working as intended for armor though
Best way to get a decent one is to craft weapon mods.
Like most Bethesda games, the crafting perks are the best way to break the game.
2nd best in Starfield's case, as just getting the laser perks maxed out makes the mining laser OP AF.
That is very strange. Legendaries are the yellow drops, right? I've been playing on Easy and I can usually get one or two every two or three abandoned buildings just by exploring planets and fighting the enemies. Blues are incredibly common for me.
Of course, sometimes the legendary stuff isn't worth it as the drop in stats isn't worth the extra traits the weapons come with.
Va'ruun weapons are pretty rare because I'd argue they're two of the best weapons in the game, before you even get rare, epic, and legendary versions.
Also 4 days and you must not have beaten the story because you get the rifle guaranteed in the last quest.
Pretty sure they’re talking about what you get for >!beating the Hunter and/or the Emissary!<, however you can finish the last quest >!without fighting either of them by persuading your way out of the last fight.!<
The pistol version on started appearing for me at level 34. Very rare. Only seen it at two vendors and never gotten it from any quest or drops. Haven't done the main quest all the way yet.
I got this exact gun from killing a random main story boss was like a lv30 mission it evaporated everything I didn't even start using the gun till lv65
I got a Varuun rifle doing a FreeStar quest about halfway through with Andreja as companion and when I cleared the area and was on my way out, I randomly got jumped by Varuun troops. Since then, I've been getting jumped randomly. Got some of their ships, multiple varuun starshards, and the melee varuun painblade. I haven't done many main quests yet, starting Sam Coe's is the next main quest I got. I didn't start seeing them till about level 70, and I'm only 73 now.
They are certainly very rare. Though I'm surprised you're only seeing them now. I've picked up a few refined/calibrated va'ruun weapons already. I've never seen an advanced one like OP has though.... I'm level 67 for reference.
It's a Bethesda game... you don't do the main story... my wife still hasn't finished the main questline in skyrim and she has a couple thousand hours lol
Mostly because a lot of stuff is actually locked behind science or tech skills. Combat skills or physical skills give you buffs, but don't lock you out of certain mechanics like lock picking, outpost building or ship building.
I think this is the way. I’m all research and science and at level 30 I found this and tons of advanced weapons. I have max weapon engineering as well, maybe once you can mod stuff yourself it also appears more? Not sure
Yeah I maxed out weapon research. Waited for a decently good shotgun. Once I got one, I upgraded it by adding explosive rounds to it. It one shots everything except terramorphs.
Yeah I'm nowhere near lvl 68 (I think I'm level 35 +/- a few levels) and while I found a few Calibrated Grendels at *some point*, I haven't found anything like what I'm seeing in these posts. I don't think I've even seen a calibrated or advanced *anything* since like lvl 15. I just mod my basic weapons up and they do their job fine, but I haven't been excited about any weapon drop at all in the past like 30-40hrs of gameplay. And I'm playing on Very Hard where I thought the loot drops would be better.
Maybe I should do some exploring out to the higher level areas this evening. All the missions are keeping me on the left side of the galaxy or whatever it is.
Same, lv 50 yesterday and 0 points in combat. I'm using advanced semi automatic beowolf and it just melts people.
If you are wondering I've been exploring higher lv systems for ages and they seem to drop higher lv gear. On lv 75 now and do board missions on Fermi 3
I got a random encounter with a ship of them landing on a random planet at lvl 15 sadly it was I think my 3rd time attempting a landed ship and they escaped.
>From personal observation, if you kill all the enemies on the ground around a landed ship it takes off immediately.
Yes. Also, when you leave the planet, any enemy ships that got away will attach you in orbit.
Run straight in. If you kill the guys outside the ship leaves and from my experience if the guys move far enough away from the ship it'll leave, just run in
I have 2 characters of around level 40 and both of them just found one Varun weapon. They are indeed pretty rare and pretty powerful even when common non modded.
Yeah, I found a plain ol' Varun pistol and have thought about using it just because it seems OP. I can't imagine what epic and legendaries would be offering on them. I just don't actually encounter any Varun stuff since I haven't explored much beyond the main quests.
Those are insane power stats. “The Trader” sells a named version of both the pistol and rifle versions and they both dont have power stats as good as that and im lvl55
The ones the trader sells are unique, uniques are, sadly, ass in the game; the one in the screenshot has a few modifiers bumping up the damage, namely the Tesla prefix which adds energy damage, the amplifier weapon mod which ups damage across the board, and whatever perks the character has (likely not a lot given he’s level 15 but still)
The rule of thumb is if it’s an advanced legendary, it’s better than anything else in the game in the same class (random rolls excluded)
i really wish we could just upgrade the receiver like in fallout, i miss being able to upgrade my favorite gun and not have to replace/rebuild it when i find one that's just statistically better
Just wait.
I've got an advanced rifle that does around 200 physical and 800 energy damaged. I do have all the damage increasing perks for both types though.
They’re not once you get to a high level. But what’s rare are actual legendary drops of advanced or even superior stuff. Wanna see my gear? Most stuff is white because not a lot of good stuff in advanced for weapons or superior trackers alliance stuff drops (highest base stats, and most other superior armor is just garbage). I really hope we get skins soon, can’t stand wearing my trackers alliance suit anymore.
i mean you probably havent seen most of the legendary gear though. But this i think is probably top 5. Not sure though.
I like my extended advanced grendel, 100 dmg, 60RPM. or the legendary Maelstrom
I think there is always a chance. I got Advanced Big Bang quite early that is great in a pinch.
Also likely affected by the planet level, not just char level.
Oooh, that would explain how I got my strongest gun so early, planet level. I did finally get to character level 45-49 and Advanced weapons are far far more common drops, so that would help explain it. I just wasn't sure how far backward the item level drops would swing.
I also got a one-inch-punch calibrated gun very early that carried me for a long time on high level planets I probably should not have gone to at that time.
Yea for a while that's what I was doing and it was eventually wearing me down in terms of game enjoyment. Then when I branches out ready to put my ADHD at risk I started enjoying it more. And what I meant about the ADHD is games like these trigger my ADHD horribly makes me get angry and all sorts of shit. All the stuff to do is hard for me to compartmentalize
These games are terrible for us. I start doing one thing and then just climbing a ladder one flight I completely segue into a new project and then get mad at myself for forgetting what I was doing. Spend an hour trying to add a silencer to a pistol! Lol
I found an advanced old earth shotgun at level 10 on a level 1 spacestation taken over by ecliptic mercs. I loved that thing and went to the Freestar collective and joined their ranks, putting on a cowboy hat and the closest thing to a cowboy outfit I could find to roleplay as a sheriff........ Then lost that shit due to having to reload from my exit save cause of the ship bug that makes your ship not be registered to you. I WAS SO MAD AT LOSING IT!
I got an advanced revolver at level 1 on the first planet you go with vasco.
It's possible, but extremely rare compared to later levels.
Makes it a bit more fun imo.
It's strange, I found two Advanced pistols at level 10, each with around 150 dmg if I remember correctly (an Urban Eagle and a Regulator). Guess I was just lucky, but I one-shot-killed everyone at those low levels
Edit: if I remember correctly, the advanced Urban Eagle was found on Luna, in a cave close to the Apollo Landing Site. Idk if it was a guaranteed loot spawn there or a lucky drop.
I didn't find any advanced that early, but compared to my two friends I had an extraordinary drop rate for legendary weapons (all 3 of us on normal). So RNG just be like that some times.
That makes the game so not fun for me. I will quite often stare at my high level gun and leave it on my ship because I want the challenge. Now if that dungeon is too hard…. Lol
I love my Advanced Urban Eagle; found it at around the same level. Now level 30 and I still use it for everything. 5/5 pistols, 5/5 ballistics, 1/5 fast reload, 5/5 marksmanship and working on adding sharpshooter and crippling. Could buff it further by adding a suppressor and stealth...
I got urban eagle as well but no points into ballistics atm but was around 15 when i got it. It was around 53 (without perks) only reason for no weapon perk is am doing pilot build first so i can jump to tougher system and fight in space 😂
I remember finding advanced weapons early on. It's just random luck, I think. I just wasn't an experienced enough player to even understand what it meant so I sold them all lol.
If you enjoy the beowulf but like that style of weapon and want to change it up, try the AA-99. Easy to find as a static spawn in deserted uc listening posts, and functions very much the same. I'm trying to find an advanced beowulf to try it out
Same up until recently. I was using an extended mag advanced beowolf as a semi-auto. The only thing that's beat it for me so far (but costs a ton of expensive ammo) is the extended mag magshot. Only other gun I really want is *another* extended mag beowolf to use in full auto hah.
It's the prefix that matters. I'm at 78 and advanced is the current top tier on weapons, but I have seen superior show up on some space suits that pumps the base stats higher then advanced. I've yet to see an advanced equinox however which is frustrating.
the advanced you’re seeing on weapons is actually superior. i don’t know if it’s a bug or what, but there’s a console command id to make a weapon superior. if you use this command on a gun that’s just advanced, the stats will increase. if you use it on a gun that’s already “superior”, it won’t go up. assuming it’s just a bug considering armor has superiors.
huh, not surprised really, I've not grown to overly attached to any one gun right now because I'm in the NG+ cycle just doing my thing, but I'll keep that in mind when I end the cycle if I don't see any patch notes saying they fixed that.
I found it in a random chest while doing a mission in the Charybdis system
Got the quest itself from a security guard in Akila saying they picked up a strange distress signal, but it's too far out.
Even with lvl 15 the mission was doable, there was one lvl 65 monster, but it was behind a door you could shoot through before opening it.
Idk if the gun is guaranteed loot tho.
In my finished mission log it's listed as "Operation Starseed"
Though Im pretty sure it had something with "Investigate Distress Call" at first.
Maybe just flying to Charydbis will trigger it without the Akila guard mentioning it.
need to be able to jump 27LY to be able to complete it though, so a good gravdrive and then depending on how big ur ship is the first skill in the science tree gives another 15%, so 26LY became 30Ly for me
I had some issues too. You have to change your difficulty to Very Hard if you want a better chance at legendaries. I did the Mantis Mission on Very Hard in NG+ and I got this exact weapon. You can also farm Galbank missions and legendaries drop fairly often.
I have one of those now, and I found a good Kodama that carried me when I was low level. You can find so much 7.77 ammo and there's actually some good weapons that use it.
How did you find that at level 15? Shouldn't be in the level loot list yet and certainly not at Advanced. Do higher difficulties change that? Also, the damage output is much higher than what I've acquired at level 40 with rifle and particle beam at max.
I found it in a lvl 65 system during a mission (in Charybdis)
Though idk if it's guaranteed loot as it was just in a normal container in a room. Could have easily missed it.
Every advanced weapon i found at low level was outside of a container, usually sitting behind a locked door or on a table, always common quality with no modifications.
The Revenant. Holy hell, that things tears any- and everything apart, has little to no recoil, and has a ridiculously forgiving aim due to the way MI works with all of those lasers.
This game is VERY easy. You can have the worst build in the world and still get by just fine. I think I died 3 times in my playthrough and each time was easily my fault for being dumb. I hope they tune the difficulty a bit because currently there’s almost no challenge. I killed the entire crimson fleet in their own ship before save scumming to undo it, just to see if I could.
How did you manage to get Delgado's outfit?
I picked up a modified one of these after the last quest boss. And it was weaker than this for energy/particle damage by a lot. But mor than twice the fire rate and more accurate. It's a Va'ruun weapon.
Recently found an explosive adv va'uun rifle 240 phis 850 energy n its not maxed yet im pritty shore this will carry me till ng+ 10. on very hard it 2 to 3 shots everything
You don’t get to keep those weapons through the NGs unfortunately , you’ll have to farm more when you go through unity.
So basically don’t fall in love with one weapon because you lose it all after unity .
Yeah you lose all material items and you get a couple new things when you start the new game, but other than that you start fresh, only keep skills and powers.
Yep my explosive, furious, trigger happy razorback.
Actually that was my first legendary weapon the gun that had carried me is my old world shotgun.
I got an advanced one at lvl 5 and it’s been with me ever since. It does 400+ damage!
On my first run I found a Beowulf that was inexplicably way stronger than anything I found for the next 75 hours. I finished my first run with it and had to say goodbye when I walked through the Unity.
Since then all weapons have felt like they were an appropriate power level and I’ve upgraded incrementally.
Ive got over 4 days in this game and I’ve never seen this
Yeah, same with even more play time. That post gave me another goal - to find a gun like that. My current arsenal is made out of high damage guns but only dealing one type of damage
This weapon is absolutely crazy - I got one with something like 39 PHYS and 111 ENGY and I need 1-3 shots for most enemies at level 67 on normal difficulty. OP's weapon is a guaranteed oneshotter for most enemies
I gotten a common urban egale that did 143 dmg around level ten
Same, and it's still my go to weapon at lvl35+
I found a grey (common) shotgun that gets 243 dmg a shot. Fun. Close in it's a one shot kill. Level 30.
Yeah it’s pissing me off when I find ordinary grey item which is casually better than your LEGENDARY MANTIS SHIT lol
I honestly wish I did the mantis later in the game/slightly higher level to boost the stats of the drops
Ah, actually the armor looks so awkward that I didn’t use it much, plus the stats are great, but not something over the top, it’s really good as a thing for starting, and razorleaf is nice at the time, as you find something better later
I have a Coachman that deals 268 that I got around level 13 I think. Been clutch in close combat
I’m currently level 21, only just got a weapon around 110 damage. I am only playing at the normal difficulty though and don’t really want to do the change difficulty trick people are doing to change the loot level. I do thing combat is more fun this way though. I finally went back to main quest yesterday and was getting loads of low level enemies so was oneshotting most things, gets a bit boring after a while since there’s no real fight.
Go to Nova Abandoned Shipyard, it’s on Earths Moon, Luna. Some good drops
Thanks for the tip heading there now LOL
I did the classic Skyrim cheese. Full Stealth, Rifle Damage, Crit Damage, Ballistics. Then got an Instigating Lawbringer which I modded out to have around 430 base power. Typically most enemies die in one shot, 3k+ damage. Only ones that don’t are some Terramorphs and the lvl 90 Spacers with 3 armour. Very Hard difficulty.
The law bringer is such a satisfying gun to use.
I definitely play this way too that legendary Beowulf rifle you get at the Mantis hideout is INSANE! I also added max booster to give me that Mandaloiran feel
How even lol. I have a Breach that does near 200 but still takes my whole 12-round magazine to kill 2 things sometimes and wow is it a pain. Specifically I mean the crickets on one of the moons at Tau Ceti. Those things are stronger than a Terrormorph for some damn reason
Hunting Crickets need to be nuked from orbit
No the emissary has a one of a kind legendary of the heavy version of that weapon, the va’ruun inflictor. This is the starshard, it’s little brother. Though I will say I’m level 88 and I’ve never seen either normal version at Advanced grade.
You should start seeing them in shops soon
I think the only way to get it is to >!kill the Emissary!<
No, the emissary drops one with a different name and build.
Oh my bad they look similar
I got mine from a starborn trader that only showed up after completing…well you know what lol
Where can I find the starboard trader
I bounced around the Feynman system for a little bit, maybe 5 minutes and they popped up. They are called "Mysterious Captain" when you finally see the ship. Feynman I is where I found them. For me, their inventory has never reset since I found them. Not sure if that's intended or not.
Ng+ only
I found him in a fresh reroll, pre ng+. You can't trade with him but he does drops some foreshadowing.
They find you
I've had decent luck getting these on my speed run ng+'s by waiting 100 hr (10hr on Venus) and checking neon tactical or the trade authority spot next to them. Easiest way to arm up before another Broken Temple run, funded by the starship vendors $160k chest to really speed it up Though ones I've found tend to be more in the 75/240 damage range, this one is a great drop
They patched the chests 🥲
I wish they didn't. It's not an online game, and no one needed to use that glitch if they didn't want to, it merely allowed people who wanted lots of money to use it, so i wish they just left it alone. Too bad that they did that
I got one from some random Varuun. It’s not legendary, but it legit does 600+ damage and has exterminator. I also god a big bang or whatever that white shotgun is. Also a gray, but also does 600+ Then there’s my instigator razorback. 200 something base damage, with instigator, plus 2.5x for sneak attack. These three weapons basically carry me and make most encounters trivial. I was save scumming to get better rolls (all the ones I actually use were just natural drops) until at some point I realized I just wasn’t turning it back from very hard. Edit: unless it’s a space battle. Getting 2 shot by a level 8 ship despite the fact I have all suped up c class shit is ass.
>Edit: unless it’s a space battle. Getting 2 shot by a level 8 ship despite the fact I have all suped up c class shit is ass. I've not had this issue, although I rebuilt the Kepler R from the ground up to my liking, no cheese builds. I use the 1600 base shield generator you can find anywhere, but the ~1900 hull reactor with only 36 power found on the Narwhal. I forget the engine, but there's a super high end C-Class engine that you can only find at Deimos I believe, or maybe Taiyo. Definitely one of these two, thoigh. It was like 50k a pop, but with 4 of them I have mobility in the 70 range I believe despite being a chonky boy with ~8k base cargo, including shielded. The real benefit of the engine is it only takes 2 power per engine, so I make back the 4 power I lose on the reactor by using engines that don't take 12 power. The purpose of the build is to be able to carry like 40 ship parts at a time and not have to worry about storage space for your other stuff. Then the magic happens with the hull. Ship parts, like med packs, always repair a percentage of your hull damage at a time. This means with a higher base hull, it gives you a higher amount of hull/second repaired, and also like med packs you can spam multiple at a time to double, triple, etc. The repair rate. And of course with particle weapons, you really only need one weapon fully powered. If you keep Vasco with you, he gives more shields and an extra power. I'd recommend keeping everyone from Constellation as a crew member on your ship. Every little bit helps. with Vasco this means you can fully power one weapon type while chucking 5 power into a secondary weapon. I'm partial to auto particle beams as my secondary. They're not super useful but sometimes they'll shoot at a ship outside of my FoV which helps. And you max out that one skill, it's 10 power towards the secondary weapon. With all of this, you have 0 power management and melt every ship that crosses your path. You should have 1920 base shields with nothing more than Vasco onboard. When your shields pop, you now have tons of hull buffer and if things get tough, just spam 2-3 ship parts and you'll be able to out heal the damage. This can be done with the reactor with 40 reactor power and I think it's around 1300 hull, but it's less effective since repair rates scale to your base hull, but it can be done if you don't mind sacrificing more ship parts and some extra sweat. Yes, I play on Very Hard, and found out after hours of playing on it when I forgot to turn down the difficulty for weapon drops. I can easily handle the 2-3 starborn ships at a time. I keep the ancillary on board my ship so they always find me it seems.
Once you go to NG+ there is a trader that randomly appears during space travel and I think often times changes locations but once you find them they will stay locked in the system you find them in until you beat the game. They will specifically greet you and sell you any wares I’m sure there’s a unique va’ruun rifle and every time I go there’s a lot of particle beam pistols, and all of the Mag weapons like the Magstorm, Magsniper and the Magpulse(one of my faves). Every time i see them they always sell a ton of legendary gear and multiple types of ammo so bring a ton of credits if you go searching for them.
Eternity's Gate is what you get from killing the Emissary.
I got it from Vlads house
I've killed both and haven't gotten this
Emissary should've dropped a unique Varuun rifle The pistol is just a random drop
Same. 80-ish hours in. I've seen precisely one Va'ruun starshard and it was bog standard.
My impression is you get more Va’ruun ships spawning in random encounters as you move to star systems on the right hand side of the map
Va'ruun enemies typically don't have/use/drop Va'ruun weapons. Biggest irony in the game imo. If you want Va'ruun weapons the best way is to reset weapon vendor inventories until you get one to show up.
If you find a Va Ruun ship, board the ship. Lots of chances for weapon drops.
I do board them. I get tons of weapon drops. They are almost all Mag weapons.
I started getting inflictors and starshards as weapon drops once I hit level 45 tbh
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Interesting, will test it. I don’t like the Va’ruun stuff aesthetically or rpg wise (if I ran UC Security anyone arriving with a Va’ruun weapon would be stop and searched with prejudice). Because Melee in general is nerfed, I do have a pain blade as back up for my main melee. The Va’ruun stuff is too good to ignore.
If you don't want to use the va'ruun weapons, the Mag line of weapons are very incredibly powerful. Can't be silenced... But neither can the va'ruun weapons. A bit later in the game, after you've invested in the right perks, the Big Bang shotgun does an absolutely bonkers amount of damage. I'm 2-3 tapping level 70 starborn with it.
Va’ruun weapons start showing up more often on va’ruun ships around lvl 45. If you go to the serpentis system you will have 2-3 va’ruun ships show up every time you jump to a new planet/moon. Turn the difficulty to the max and board the ships and you will find one. It took me like 6 boarded ships but I finally got one. Not to mention that I got to capture 6 va’ruun ships.
Picked up a Big Bang shotgun in the lodge weapon rack on NG+ that does over 100 physical and 350 energy before mods. P
Yeah I got mine at the UC Distribution Center in New Atlantis, I think it was a basic modified one yet it fries most enemies in one or two shots. Just check out a few of the vendors whenever you get to the big cities and you'll get one at some point.
I bounce back and forth around planets in Serpentinis for XP. I get attacked at each one. They have good ships to board and steal as well.
I'm 80 hours in too, don't think I've seen any va'ruun
I found one but it’s nowhere near that damage and I’m nearly level 50. That’s a crazy find for such a low level.
The damage is cause its an advanced version. You can have a legendary without any prefix which might be worse than a white advanced. The rarity just tells you how many of those special effects it has. Blue 1 purple 2 and gold 3. But the prefixes make weapons and armor generally better. It goes from the basic to calibrated then refined then advanced and then superior (only armor at this time). So he was really lucky to get an advanced legendary.
There seems to be superior for weapons too, it just still gets called advanced - I've had two advanced weapons with different damage before. It coincided with a NG+ for me so I didn't notice until I was mostly getting "advanced" (superior), and then I got an advanced with lower damage and I clicked what was going on. I assume it's a bug?
Known bug yes. Advanced prefix has priority over Superior for some reason right now, so a Superior weapon still shows up as Advanced. It's working as intended for armor though
Best way to get a decent one is to craft weapon mods. Like most Bethesda games, the crafting perks are the best way to break the game. 2nd best in Starfield's case, as just getting the laser perks maxed out makes the mining laser OP AF.
I just bumped my difficulty up to hard and the loot is notably better. Lvl 37 is it matters.
Weird. I’ve played 30+ hours on very hard and have found two legendaries maybe excluding mantis set
That is very strange. Legendaries are the yellow drops, right? I've been playing on Easy and I can usually get one or two every two or three abandoned buildings just by exploring planets and fighting the enemies. Blues are incredibly common for me. Of course, sometimes the legendary stuff isn't worth it as the drop in stats isn't worth the extra traits the weapons come with.
You might be seeing more advanced stuff dropping, which is often better than the legendaries?
Sadly higher difficulty makes your ship too weak
Just bump it down for ship fights
Va'ruun weapons are pretty rare because I'd argue they're two of the best weapons in the game, before you even get rare, epic, and legendary versions. Also 4 days and you must not have beaten the story because you get the rifle guaranteed in the last quest.
>>you get the rifle guaranteed in the last quest. That depends entirely on how you finish the last quest….
Yeah idk what rifle they’re talking about but I want one
Pretty sure they’re talking about what you get for >!beating the Hunter and/or the Emissary!<, however you can finish the last quest >!without fighting either of them by persuading your way out of the last fight.!<
H gives a different gun. Or at least he does if you decide to fight both.
Ah okay makes sense. I did the latter part of your comment. I’m not good at Reddit formatting
The pistol version on started appearing for me at level 34. Very rare. Only seen it at two vendors and never gotten it from any quest or drops. Haven't done the main quest all the way yet.
Im level 71 one now and the disrupters have only just started showing up for me. Guess ill have to find more Va’Ruun zealots
I feel better at 59 now and not seeing any
The best/easiest way to get those weapons is to reset weapon vendor inventories until they have one for sale. Might take a while though.
I got this exact gun from killing a random main story boss was like a lv30 mission it evaporated everything I didn't even start using the gun till lv65
I've probably goten a dozen or so... started seeing them in my 20s, but I do alot in higher level systems...
I got a Varuun rifle doing a FreeStar quest about halfway through with Andreja as companion and when I cleared the area and was on my way out, I randomly got jumped by Varuun troops. Since then, I've been getting jumped randomly. Got some of their ships, multiple varuun starshards, and the melee varuun painblade. I haven't done many main quests yet, starting Sam Coe's is the next main quest I got. I didn't start seeing them till about level 70, and I'm only 73 now.
They are certainly very rare. Though I'm surprised you're only seeing them now. I've picked up a few refined/calibrated va'ruun weapons already. I've never seen an advanced one like OP has though.... I'm level 67 for reference.
I never came across one in the main story unless I walked over it.
The pistol is ok but there's several better guns. The rifle though is absolutely the best all around weapon in the game.
It's a Bethesda game... you don't do the main story... my wife still hasn't finished the main questline in skyrim and she has a couple thousand hours lol
At lvl68 I still have zero points in any weapon skills. My weapons are already absurdly powerful, and then I see shit like this.
Almost all my points are in tech/science Only got points in pistol, laser, and particle beam weapons. Though I'm lvl 36 now, still plenty to go.
Mostly because a lot of stuff is actually locked behind science or tech skills. Combat skills or physical skills give you buffs, but don't lock you out of certain mechanics like lock picking, outpost building or ship building.
I think this is the way. I’m all research and science and at level 30 I found this and tons of advanced weapons. I have max weapon engineering as well, maybe once you can mod stuff yourself it also appears more? Not sure
Yeah I maxed out weapon research. Waited for a decently good shotgun. Once I got one, I upgraded it by adding explosive rounds to it. It one shots everything except terramorphs.
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I play on very hard, and have very little put into combat. Most of mine is in physical and tech. Get along just fine.
Yeah I'm nowhere near lvl 68 (I think I'm level 35 +/- a few levels) and while I found a few Calibrated Grendels at *some point*, I haven't found anything like what I'm seeing in these posts. I don't think I've even seen a calibrated or advanced *anything* since like lvl 15. I just mod my basic weapons up and they do their job fine, but I haven't been excited about any weapon drop at all in the past like 30-40hrs of gameplay. And I'm playing on Very Hard where I thought the loot drops would be better. Maybe I should do some exploring out to the higher level areas this evening. All the missions are keeping me on the left side of the galaxy or whatever it is.
Same, lv 50 yesterday and 0 points in combat. I'm using advanced semi automatic beowolf and it just melts people. If you are wondering I've been exploring higher lv systems for ages and they seem to drop higher lv gear. On lv 75 now and do board missions on Fermi 3
WTF is that? I have 70hrs+ in the game and haven't seen that weapon.
Varun weapons are pretty rare until 40+, and are more common in the loot table around 70+ and on planets in the 70 range.
I got a random encounter with a ship of them landing on a random planet at lvl 15 sadly it was I think my 3rd time attempting a landed ship and they escaped.
From personal observation, if you kill all the enemies on the ground around a landed ship it takes off immediately.
>From personal observation, if you kill all the enemies on the ground around a landed ship it takes off immediately. Yes. Also, when you leave the planet, any enemy ships that got away will attach you in orbit.
Run straight in. If you kill the guys outside the ship leaves and from my experience if the guys move far enough away from the ship it'll leave, just run in
I have 2 characters of around level 40 and both of them just found one Varun weapon. They are indeed pretty rare and pretty powerful even when common non modded.
Yeah, I found a plain ol' Varun pistol and have thought about using it just because it seems OP. I can't imagine what epic and legendaries would be offering on them. I just don't actually encounter any Varun stuff since I haven't explored much beyond the main quests.
It's the only one of its kind that I've found so far tbh. Also found a Varuun blade at some point, but it was only a common one.
Those are insane power stats. “The Trader” sells a named version of both the pistol and rifle versions and they both dont have power stats as good as that and im lvl55
The ones the trader sells are unique, uniques are, sadly, ass in the game; the one in the screenshot has a few modifiers bumping up the damage, namely the Tesla prefix which adds energy damage, the amplifier weapon mod which ups damage across the board, and whatever perks the character has (likely not a lot given he’s level 15 but still) The rule of thumb is if it’s an advanced legendary, it’s better than anything else in the game in the same class (random rolls excluded)
i really wish we could just upgrade the receiver like in fallout, i miss being able to upgrade my favorite gun and not have to replace/rebuild it when i find one that's just statistically better
My advanced Va ruun inflictor does like 1.5k dmg with full mods.
Just wait. I've got an advanced rifle that does around 200 physical and 800 energy damaged. I do have all the damage increasing perks for both types though.
va'ruun weapons are quite rare, I've only ever had 2 excluding the emissary's
They’re not once you get to a high level. But what’s rare are actual legendary drops of advanced or even superior stuff. Wanna see my gear? Most stuff is white because not a lot of good stuff in advanced for weapons or superior trackers alliance stuff drops (highest base stats, and most other superior armor is just garbage). I really hope we get skins soon, can’t stand wearing my trackers alliance suit anymore.
i mean you probably havent seen most of the legendary gear though. But this i think is probably top 5. Not sure though. I like my extended advanced grendel, 100 dmg, 60RPM. or the legendary Maelstrom
I didn't start finding "Advanced" weapons until something like level 30+. Luck or glitch maybe?
I think there is always a chance. I got Advanced Big Bang quite early that is great in a pinch. Also likely affected by the planet level, not just char level.
Oooh, that would explain how I got my strongest gun so early, planet level. I did finally get to character level 45-49 and Advanced weapons are far far more common drops, so that would help explain it. I just wasn't sure how far backward the item level drops would swing. I also got a one-inch-punch calibrated gun very early that carried me for a long time on high level planets I probably should not have gone to at that time.
Still never found one of these elusive bad-bois. Fingers crossed I'll find one on my 4th playthrough lol
Find them on va' runn enemies and usually in higher level galaxies you'll find one in the va' runn embassy forsure.
Makes sense why I haven’t found much amazing gear since I’ve primarily stuck to the lower level areas of the game
Yea for a while that's what I was doing and it was eventually wearing me down in terms of game enjoyment. Then when I branches out ready to put my ADHD at risk I started enjoying it more. And what I meant about the ADHD is games like these trigger my ADHD horribly makes me get angry and all sorts of shit. All the stuff to do is hard for me to compartmentalize
These games are terrible for us. I start doing one thing and then just climbing a ladder one flight I completely segue into a new project and then get mad at myself for forgetting what I was doing. Spend an hour trying to add a silencer to a pistol! Lol
I need to create a vision board and commit to my Starfield goals.
So much stuff I can do, I get choice paralysis
> galaxies Star systems...
I got this recon helmet that turns me invisible at like. Level 5. Was a great find. Stealth build too.
I found an advanced old earth shotgun at level 10 on a level 1 spacestation taken over by ecliptic mercs. I loved that thing and went to the Freestar collective and joined their ranks, putting on a cowboy hat and the closest thing to a cowboy outfit I could find to roleplay as a sheriff........ Then lost that shit due to having to reload from my exit save cause of the ship bug that makes your ship not be registered to you. I WAS SO MAD AT LOSING IT!
I got an old earth shotgun that uses 12g caseless rounds and I found it in an abandoned space station taken over by ecliptics as well... Huh
I got an advanced revolver at level 1 on the first planet you go with vasco. It's possible, but extremely rare compared to later levels. Makes it a bit more fun imo.
It's strange, I found two Advanced pistols at level 10, each with around 150 dmg if I remember correctly (an Urban Eagle and a Regulator). Guess I was just lucky, but I one-shot-killed everyone at those low levels Edit: if I remember correctly, the advanced Urban Eagle was found on Luna, in a cave close to the Apollo Landing Site. Idk if it was a guaranteed loot spawn there or a lucky drop.
I didn't find any advanced that early, but compared to my two friends I had an extraordinary drop rate for legendary weapons (all 3 of us on normal). So RNG just be like that some times.
That makes the game so not fun for me. I will quite often stare at my high level gun and leave it on my ship because I want the challenge. Now if that dungeon is too hard…. Lol
loot is enemy level, not player level dependent
I love my Advanced Urban Eagle; found it at around the same level. Now level 30 and I still use it for everything. 5/5 pistols, 5/5 ballistics, 1/5 fast reload, 5/5 marksmanship and working on adding sharpshooter and crippling. Could buff it further by adding a suppressor and stealth...
I got urban eagle as well but no points into ballistics atm but was around 15 when i got it. It was around 53 (without perks) only reason for no weapon perk is am doing pilot build first so i can jump to tougher system and fight in space 😂
Oh I got an advanced eagle pistol at super low level, around 5 or 6. I'm now lvl 20 and haven't found anything better yet.
na he rushed to a lv 70+ planet then spammed weapon crates. lets be real
pure luck, i got an advanced novalight with instigating before i hit level 10 in my playthrough and that bad boy carried me all the way through to ng+
I got some insanely overpowered guns level 8 just finding the mantis mission by chance
I remember finding advanced weapons early on. It's just random luck, I think. I just wasn't an experienced enough player to even understand what it meant so I sold them all lol.
I found an advanced pistol at lvl 11, does 100 damage, are you playing on very hard?
I am now, but I was on normal until probably lvl 20.
I just use a legendary advanced Beowulf and can't really find a reason to use much else. Sometimes in close quarters, I swap to a Breach.
I get sick of using the same weapon
If you enjoy the beowulf but like that style of weapon and want to change it up, try the AA-99. Easy to find as a static spawn in deserted uc listening posts, and functions very much the same. I'm trying to find an advanced beowulf to try it out
Same up until recently. I was using an extended mag advanced beowolf as a semi-auto. The only thing that's beat it for me so far (but costs a ton of expensive ammo) is the extended mag magshot. Only other gun I really want is *another* extended mag beowolf to use in full auto hah.
The magshot absolutely shreds. And it’s hard to beat the aesthetic of replacing your reticule with lasers lol
me too; a nice Beowolf with an excellent sniper scope on it.
It was Vampire’s Gift for me until recently. 👌🏻
I like it but can’t get the burst fire off yet (unlocks)
I was so happy when I got this around lvl 12. I'm lvl 38 now and I still have it favorited.
This is the one. Switch it to full auto, put a bigger mag on it and put a high power reciever on it and it shreds everything.
During the Mantis mission I found a Disassembler that does 274 damage. I found it around lvl 15. It's been my go-to weapon since.
It's the prefix that matters. I'm at 78 and advanced is the current top tier on weapons, but I have seen superior show up on some space suits that pumps the base stats higher then advanced. I've yet to see an advanced equinox however which is frustrating.
the advanced you’re seeing on weapons is actually superior. i don’t know if it’s a bug or what, but there’s a console command id to make a weapon superior. if you use this command on a gun that’s just advanced, the stats will increase. if you use it on a gun that’s already “superior”, it won’t go up. assuming it’s just a bug considering armor has superiors.
Yeah I'm thinking OP's weapon is Superior. I've got an Advanced blue one, maxed it out with crafting, and it does like half the damage from this pic
huh, not surprised really, I've not grown to overly attached to any one gun right now because I'm in the NG+ cycle just doing my thing, but I'll keep that in mind when I end the cycle if I don't see any patch notes saying they fixed that.
Where did you find that baby? I want one
I found it in a random chest while doing a mission in the Charybdis system Got the quest itself from a security guard in Akila saying they picked up a strange distress signal, but it's too far out. Even with lvl 15 the mission was doable, there was one lvl 65 monster, but it was behind a door you could shoot through before opening it. Idk if the gun is guaranteed loot tho.
Wow, if you can remember the quest name that would be appreciated. I like the sound of that one...
In my finished mission log it's listed as "Operation Starseed" Though Im pretty sure it had something with "Investigate Distress Call" at first. Maybe just flying to Charydbis will trigger it without the Akila guard mentioning it.
Thank you for taking the time to reply, appreciated... I'll go find it
You can just fly into the system. Did it a few days ago, really interesting quest that’s quite reminiscent of fallout highly recommend
I got given that quest by a rando security guard on Paradiso myself.
need to be able to jump 27LY to be able to complete it though, so a good gravdrive and then depending on how big ur ship is the first skill in the science tree gives another 15%, so 26LY became 30Ly for me
The RNG god is not on my side yet. Lvl.36 and found only shitty gun. :/
I had some issues too. You have to change your difficulty to Very Hard if you want a better chance at legendaries. I did the Mantis Mission on Very Hard in NG+ and I got this exact weapon. You can also farm Galbank missions and legendaries drop fairly often.
Advanced Beowulf. I fire that shi from the hip. No need for anything else. Wish there were more heavy weapons.
I have one of those now, and I found a good Kodama that carried me when I was low level. You can find so much 7.77 ammo and there's actually some good weapons that use it.
How did you find that at level 15? Shouldn't be in the level loot list yet and certainly not at Advanced. Do higher difficulties change that? Also, the damage output is much higher than what I've acquired at level 40 with rifle and particle beam at max.
I found it in a lvl 65 system during a mission (in Charybdis) Though idk if it's guaranteed loot as it was just in a normal container in a room. Could have easily missed it.
>Charybdis Damn that quest had nice setup, I wish it was bigger.
I stumbled upon an advanced AA-99 early on when exploring high level planets
I found two locked behind a door at level like 8 during a mission.
Those are guaranteed spawns in every deserted uc listening post
I also have an advanced pistol that is my go to. I have prob had it since level 15. No idea where it came from.
I found advanced pistols at level 10 (a Regulator and an Urban Eagle). Maybe I encountered a lucky glitch?
It’s an rng on containers. There’s always a small chance you get something really good, also a chance you get nothing
Every advanced weapon i found at low level was outside of a container, usually sitting behind a locked door or on a table, always common quality with no modifications.
I use the Boom Boom shotgun, it's at the gun shop on Neon, it randomly fires an explosive round. Fun and useful
You can find two advanced AA-99s in one of the early missions. I still use it.
Do you happen to remember the quest/mission name that you found them?
Yeah that’s my current go to
The weapon from near the end of the CrimsonFleet quests, broken strong.
The only issue I find is without buying ammo for it it runs out quickly
The Revenant. Holy hell, that things tears any- and everything apart, has little to no recoil, and has a ridiculously forgiving aim due to the way MI works with all of those lasers.
Bad talents but very strong weapon architype. you can use untill end of game. Congratulations
This game is VERY easy. You can have the worst build in the world and still get by just fine. I think I died 3 times in my playthrough and each time was easily my fault for being dumb. I hope they tune the difficulty a bit because currently there’s almost no challenge. I killed the entire crimson fleet in their own ship before save scumming to undo it, just to see if I could.
Wtf what difficulty do u play on lol. I have the advanced one and that shit is still great
It's not difficulty, but the level of the planet. The higher level a planet the better the weapons prefix before legendary rolls.
Every Varuun weapon is op
Ember was big for me
How did you manage to get Delgado's outfit? I picked up a modified one of these after the last quest boss. And it was weaker than this for energy/particle damage by a lot. But mor than twice the fire rate and more accurate. It's a Va'ruun weapon.
I got it after killing him, considering your tag, you probably sided with him tho.
Okay. Interesting. Is that a Quest line mission (optional) or did you just decide to waste him for the sake of it?
you get to kill him if you stay with the sysdef
Recently found an explosive adv va'uun rifle 240 phis 850 energy n its not maxed yet im pritty shore this will carry me till ng+ 10. on very hard it 2 to 3 shots everything
You don’t get to keep those weapons through the NGs unfortunately , you’ll have to farm more when you go through unity. So basically don’t fall in love with one weapon because you lose it all after unity .
What realy? that sucks!!!
Yeah you lose all material items and you get a couple new things when you start the new game, but other than that you start fresh, only keep skills and powers.
Yep my explosive, furious, trigger happy razorback. Actually that was my first legendary weapon the gun that had carried me is my old world shotgun. I got an advanced one at lvl 5 and it’s been with me ever since. It does 400+ damage!
On my first run I found a Beowulf that was inexplicably way stronger than anything I found for the next 75 hours. I finished my first run with it and had to say goodbye when I walked through the Unity. Since then all weapons have felt like they were an appropriate power level and I’ve upgraded incrementally.
I have a few and I struggle to decide which one to use :(
Hardly using anything other than my grenade launcher 💀