Soooo I was insanely hyped up to try double barrel with boom enhance! That’s what we’ve all been talking about, right?
I got Boom. Enhance. Wow, his damage and fire rate SKYROCKETED. I mean, he was doing hundreds of damage per shot and like a million shots per second.
Then I finally got it. I got Double Barrel. AND IT BROKE BOOM ENHANCE.
With Double Barrel the clone no longer constantly fires. He fires in short bursts, about 0.5 seconds long!!! Great!!! Absolutely amazing!!! Enhanced fire rate and reload speed? NOOOPE. He doesn’t even need to reload because it takes him 20 seconds just to go through a single clip of ammo, BECAUSE HE. DOESN’T. FIRE. HIS. GUN. He sits there staring and aiming.
Oh I’ve tried this with snipers, rocket launchers, pistols, SMG’s, and yep assault rifles too. He turns into a dumpster fire of nothing.
The ONLY thing he is good for with Double Barrel is applying status effects. So, congrats. That’s the only thing you’ll gain. Except for the fact you’ll be doing about 1/4th (or less) the damage you were doing before, because he simply won’t be firing his weapon.
Oh, and he doesn’t get damage boosts. His original damage with Boom. Enhance. got him to about 250 damage per hit, and as mentioned earlier, he fired continuously and EXTREMELY fast. Like, the damage output was INSANE. I loved it. Now, with double barrel if I give him a sniper rifle that has a 1.01 shots per second (so he should be firing more than 1 bullet per second with his buffs), he will fire about 1 shot per second, and then pause and do nothing for a few seconds, just aiming and following the enemy. If the sniper rifle has 1800 damage and I do about 8k-11k damage per crit and a few thousand per normal hit, he does about 2.1k-2.4k damage per crit and between 600 and 1,000 per normal bullet. This really wouldn’t be too bad, but HE DOESN’T EVER FIRE HIS FREAKING WEAPON. If I give him a legendary assault rifle that has 300 attack… he does 132 damage per bullet. YEEEEP. LESS THAN WHAT HE DID ORIGINALLY. Let me repeat this. Double Barrel LOWERED his damage. Not only did it lower his damage but it completely broke his firing mechanics so he doesn’t continuously fire at enemies. Truly, I applaud you Gearbox. Did you even play Zane once before release? How did you miss something this big?
I’ve cleared an entire room multiple times to leave 1 enemy alive, just so I can spawn him about 10 feet away from the enemy. Clear line of sight. HE DOESN’T DO ANYTHING.
GG Zane is dead.
EDIT:
BTW, I respec’d to get rid of double barrel and simply have Boom. Enhance. Clone is back to normal. He fires and does 250 damage per hit (no crit). He fires continuously. Non-stop. No breaks. And insanely quickly. Boom. Enhance. is god mode. Double Barrel deletes Boom. Enhance. and makes him fire like a monkey that doesn’t know where the trigger is. Doesn’t matter if he can’t even see the enemy, without double barrel he will fire at the wall in front of them non stop. He will not stop firing. Compare this to double barrel, he doesn’t even fire at them when he has a clear line of sight.
DO NOT GET DOUBLE BARREL. IT WILL BREAK YOUR CLONE. DO. NOT. GET. DOUBLE. BARREL.