As many of you are aware, the Breach variant of the Forge Gun is fairly lackluster compared to the Assault variant. Well I have around 50 or so Wiyrkomi Breach Forge Guns just sitting in my assets, so I figured I'd smoke 'em if I got 'em. And I do have to say I am pleasantly surprised at what I was able to do.

I was using two Complex Damage Mods and I have Forge Gun Proficiency Lv 4.

I can one-shot Madrugars and Gunnlogis(and Somas and Sicas too of course). One shot to the weak spot in the back and someone just lost 200k - 500k Isk in an instant.

I can one shot some LAVs. Only the shield variants though. The armor ones barely take two shots.

I can one-shot most Dropships. Some take two, and sometimes three if they have a hardener on.

I can almost one shot turret installations, in fact I'm pretty sure I used to be able to before the damage nerf to Forge Guns.


So, while the Assault Variant has more DPS than the Breach, the Breach can wreck everything in one or two shots as long as you have good aim. The Assault variant is all around good, but if you have Skill the Breach is better.

The worst version of the Forge gun is still better than the best version of the Swarm Launcher ;_;

At least it's not the plasma cannon.

Though, the Plasma Cannon is still effective against infantry. So at least the Plasma Cannon has one use.

Whatever effect you're getting out of the plasma cannon, every other weapon can do better.

Except for swarms of course, but whatever.

Ah, but the strength of the PC lies in its versatility

There is no weapon in the game that can do both decent direct damage to vehicles and installations while also being able to one-hit-kill infantry, even doing a couple hundred HP of splash damage if you barely miss

no sir

none at all that can outperform or even just compare to the plasma cannon at that versatile role