Piercing Weapons

Has the percentage for getting a piercing weapon changed?

Recently, I've noticed that I cannot make one.

I just played 16 waves with a energy3 rocket trying to make a piercing flak.

Could make approx 4 weps per wave (prob. more but thinking conservitaly) thats a wopping 64 times with not 1 piercing weapon!

It's impossible for high levels AM's to win a map if LOS'ing without piercing.

I haven't noticed any drop in the chances of getting a Piercing weapon (now or as a WM). As someone just figuring out what all the artifacts do, are you just using a MWM to try this or is there another way and a particular type of weapon to change to get a predictable result? I dont get a chance to view the artifacts as I get killed way too fast to mess with them much.

Just the MWM.

Frankly it would be unfair to pick and choose a specific weapon, And I dont mind using adren to make the weapon, but in the last month there have been many games where I just can not make a piercing?!?

BTW Flak, Have you setup binds for your artifacts yet? Very useful.

I don't know of any changes, and I don't know of anyone suggesting Piercing Weapons get rarer.
Personally, I would like to knock them down from +30%, but not make them less frequent.

Ratar_Killer wrote:

Just the MWM.

Frankly it would be unfair to pick and choose a specific weapon, And I dont mind using adren to make the weapon, but in the last month there have been many games where I just can not make a piercing?!?

BTW Flak, Have you setup binds for your artifacts yet? Very useful.

I have to agree with Ratar here flak, bind your artifacts. Makes playing AM a lot easier.

I've got Triple, Globe, Double Magic, Rod, The MWM keybound. Beats searching thru the artifacts for them.

On topic for the piercing, I havent had any problem rolling one yet. Isnt the priority value for piercing set at 1. That would make it about 1 in 50 I believe to roll a piercing. But I feel your pain. There are times where you just keep rolling and rolling trying for a good magic effect but you never see it. Even a more common Posion on the Mini gun I have issues rolling one sometimes. You either live by the RNG or die by the RNG.

Ok I have noticed that if you keep try'n to change just one weapon it keeps flip'n between like 4 diff weapons types.. so I try 2 or 3 times then change the weapon that I'm try'n to magic, I've found that happens to speed things up in make'n something usable.

Dracos wrote:

I have to agree with Ratar here flak, bind your artifacts. Makes playing AM a lot easier.

I've got Triple, Globe, Double Magic, Rod, The MWM keybound. Beats searching thru the artifacts for them.

Already done, did that yesterday, just havnt had time to mess with them much. Dont have enuf adren to experiment much yet. Trying to ramp that up and Damage bonus so I can get surge...

actually between surge and resupply is the key.. at low lvl... (dont buy much wps)

Resupply 2 msw key for me. AM's spend most of thier time on 1 or 2 weapons.