Best Weapon Combos

[0evil_overlord0]

Twice now I've gotten two ion MK2s and a pike beam. On it's own it's not a powerful combo, but shields fall incredibly fast and with either attack drones (on the engi A when I got this combo) or boarding (did this with the zoltan B) any encounter becomes trivial. The only combo that seems like it would be more powerful is 4x burst laser 2s, and that is incredibly rare.
EDIT: just got two ion MK2s again, this time with the red-tail. I ended up at the boss with a burst laser MK 1 and cloaking, but no teleporter or drones.

I easily won. I think it's safe to say that 2X ion blast MK2 and any hull-damaging weapon is the second best combination in the game. I'll have to try out 4X BL2 to see how good it is.

[human_dictionary]

the weapon combo i enjoyed using the most was breach bomb II (2 power) anti bio beam (2 power), hull laser I (2 power) and burst laser II (2 power). with this, i melted the boss and killed his crew without taking any damage (to be fair i had cloak and lvl 4 shields).

[hybridfive]

I'm of the minority opinion that the best weapons configuration involve the dual laser. That thing is quick enough that if you focus fire on the shields with your alpha strike, it will repower quickly enough that you can get to their weapons before they fire a second time. The fact that it's one power also makes a lot of other setups that you can't attain otherwise.

Dual + Halberd + Burst MK III on a Stealth A was pretty solid. That was one of the very few times I won with that ship. The other time was Dual + Pegasus + Glaive.

Dual + Leto + Burst MK II + Burst MK III was pretty unfair. That only came about because I found (and could afford) a pre-igniter in sector 2.

[Hoa_Binh]

The best combo for me is weapons of the same fire rate. Doesn't really matter if it is two burst laser mk 1 or heavy lasers. The fire rate is the important part. I usualy have something else to go with this too and use the syncronized weapons to break shields, and if they are powerful enough, to do damage and then trigger whatever other weapons I have manually.

[Darkelve]

On my last playthrough I had this setup, with the Red-Tail. Really loved it:

Weapons:

• Burst Laser Mark III
• Heavy Laster Mark I
• Heavy Laster Mark I
• Heavy Laster Mark I

Augmentations:

• Weapons Loader
• Weapons Loader
• Weapons Pre-Igniter

I called my ship the Avenger III; the first two did not live up to to their name. This one did, as you might imagine

Although I suppose that 4x Burst Laser Mark II is about the best weapon combination you can get in this game.
Perhaps it's my imagination, but Burst Laser Mark III seems to miss more than the less powerful Burst Lasers. Or maybe I'm just imagining it and the real reason is because in the last sectors enemy ships have high evasion.

[TJJ]

I think it's safe to say that 2X ion blast MK2 and any hull-damaging weapon is the second best combination in the game. I'll have to try out 4X BL2 to see how good it is.

Agreed; completely negates regular shields, zoltan shields, and can completely lock down at least two enemy systems. (three/four if you micromanage & have elite crew + reloader[s]).

I've yet to get 4xbl2 either

[Luigi9990]

I think one of the best strategies I had in the game was a Hull Laser II, a Hull Laser I, and a Burst Laser II. They all had a cooldown time within 3 seconds of each other, so it was pretty dang powerful.

Also had my weapons guy fully upgraded.

If you think about it, it shot 8 projectiles, and if all shots hit and no shields were up and the hull laser was used properly, it would do 13 damage per volley. Took down the final boss in no time.

[Number43]

I've never had 4x burst laser 2, but last run I had 2 of them and 2 burst laser I.

[FDru]

I've had 4 burst laser IIs twice. The game is so easy it becomes boring.

My favorite combo would be ions + beams. I don't mind if it's a lowly pike beam, because once you take out the right systems is simply doesn't matter. The shields stay down permanently and whatever you're up against is going to be a sitting duck until dead. It makes me feel so evil.

I had a very interesting run yesterday with the Slug A, where I ended up with two Ion MK2s, a Halberd and a Bio Beam. Couldn't run them all at once but I didn't want to anyway, the Ions and Bio Beam took care of anything with crew, and I switched to the Halberd when I needed to take out auto ships or med bays. Very effective; and I ended up getting my highest score ever in that run.

[Luigi9990]

I think I'll call this the mark 2 run. I had an awesome setup that included:

Weapons:
Ion Blast II (2x)
Heavy Laser II

Drone:
Anti-Ship Drone II

Unfortunately I wasn't able to run all weapons at the same time, but I usually just ran the 2 ion blasts. Didn't get to the final boss because I was just going for the rock cruiser.

This was done on Engi ship type A