Does Laser Disker beat Flakker?

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel BL: TPS Loot and Weapons Chat
#1

Recently, I’ve started to play Claptastic DLC, and found Laser Disker quite fun and useful.
I couldn’t find specific information about Laser Disker, so I thought I should add this post here. If there’s something wrong, tell me. I’m not a native English speaker, so please understand my grammars.

https://youtu.be/P_ISP3ago8U

1. Type
Flakker : God
Laser Disker : Shotgun. It’s not a Laser. Laser shaped Shotgun for short/mid-range combat.

2. Special Effects
Flakker : God
Laser Disker : Shazbot! – Always explosive element. Fires a blue disk in a straight trajectory that explodes on contact with walls or enemies. Very high damage, low rate of fire. Damage is more than doubled when the target is in mid air or frozen solid.
(Borderlands Wiki-Laser Disker)

3. Damage
Flakker : God
Laser Disker : 1 shot every frozen enemy except badasses, without worrying about ammo.

4. Accuracy
Flakker : God
Laser Disker : Accuracy itself is quite solid in short/mid-range. It might seem a bit inaccurate, but wide explosive radius offsets the problem. Just hit their knees, not head or body.

5. Recoil
Flakker : God
Laser Disker : None. This is important than you think. 0 recoil provides you endless stable/accurate explosive shots.

6. Reload
Flakker : God
Laser Disker : Reload is also another additional shot.

7. Chucking
Flakker : God
Laser Disker : 1 shot every badass. It’s kind of like a pitching in baseball. Hard to hit at first, especially moving targets. However, it becomes reliable after some practice. High possibility to rend a hit when you aim toward their knees.(not head or body)

8. Mobbing
Flakker : God
Laser Disker : Effective only on single target.

(EDIT)9. Fragile
Flakker : God
Laser Disker : Enemy bullets can shoot out the Laser Disker’s projectiles.

#2

Your are looking at the weapon too much as a shooter.

It’s a good shooter but it’s exceptional value is as a chucker.

Massive damage on a frozen target… Far exceeds Flakker when used this way and is far easier to achieve .

Much easier to master chucking the Disker then mastering the sweet spot of the Flakker.

Oh and don’t worry about your English. It’s better than mine…and I’m an American!

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#3

careful blutfatal may be listening…

#4

I don’t mean to oppose you or mean that you implied anything wrong, but I want to add that Laser Disker is one of the best shooter, and is (or could be) underrated because it has low fire rate. However, Laser Disker can also be used as a SMG like shooter. As you all know, Slapper is one of the top gears for Nisha. With just 3 skills(Hell’s Comin’ With Me!, Quick Shot, Unchained), every high-damage/low-fire rate weapon becomes SMG. I think it would be nearly the same for Jack or Claptrap, who can gain high fire rate from their skills.

Important thing is that this weapon has high accuracy in mid-range(because it has wide explosive radius), no recoil, and almost 0 reload time. When I use it, it feels just like a Fatale. This weapon really has everything but fire rate, and last thing you need is high fire rate from skills.

This video is the mission [L33t h4X0rz - difficulty 9(full cake)]. In here, I can be killed by 2 or 3 shots, can’t kill frozen normal enemies with one shot, and can’t kill frozen badasses even with several times of chucking. If you have tried [difficulty 9] mode, you’d know how different it is.
I can’t kill 6~7 enemies during 1 Showdown with SMG hip firing, but I can kill 6~7 enemies during 1 Showdown with Laser Disker hip firing.

I don’t mean that this weapon is always the best, but can be used as a top gear(as a shooter) for a certain situation.
https://youtu.be/_AIZD2G-NBk

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#5

Nice video!

Great movement…and use of a mixture of chucking and shooting.

If I tried that wide open approach with Wilhelm at setting 9 in the Mutator Arena…

I’d last through the first wave…maybe…LOL

Nisha just hits with so much more pop!

#6

Enemy bullets can shoot out the Laser Disker’s projectiles.

#7

Wow…never noticed that…ever…interesting…

But I chuck with-it waaaaay more than shoot with it so I guess I would not have noticed it

#8

Thanks, I didn’t know about it. However, I think it won’t generally be a problem.

First, I always keep jumping and slamming around the map during the combat.Since I rarely stay in the enemy’s line of sight, it’s nearly impossible for two projectiles to bump into each other.

Furthermore, most essential and efficient effect of this weapon is adding huge damage to frozen enemies, and frozen enemies never move or shoot. If someone is using this weapon on non-frozen enemies, I’d say he/she might have to freeze them first as possible.

Still, it’s an important information for people who want to use this weapon properly. At least I’ll be careful when enemies are pouring bullets into me.

#9

If I ever get the Handsome Collection I’d be very interesting in trying this. Athena can make excellent use of Explosive gear through Flash Freeze especially if you manage to reach 700 stacks (which is ridiculously easy to do against Raid Bosses but low level Hyperion Torgue Barrel Shotguns should work well against mobs too) but even without that it would be very useful, not to mention the obscene Fire Rate possible through Unrelenting.