Afentis

I was curious if the Ballistari Might worked with Nekros' Shadows. So I tested it with a Corrupted Heavy Gunner shadow in the simulacrum, didn't see any increased fire rate or recoil reduction on their shots. Unfortunate. :(

As a Spear throw enjoyer, the throw build (pure damage) is as diffcult as creating Xaku build, terrible 20% status chance and mulitshot mods wont affect the over damage, leaving you with pure damage + crit chance + internal bleeding mods for that slash damage, even all this, you still wont be able to deal enough damage against SP overguard units

Not sure the buffs are worth giving up your primary weapon for. Make something like this as a 2ndary and then maybe I would consider.

WHY DOESN'T IT APPLY TO COMPANIONS!?! Im so sad!

Is it also giving attack speed for melees?

You're telling me I can add even more reload speed and fire rate on top of Merulina guardian's buff? I'm sold

Ballistari might buff is now 100% fire rate and 100% reload speed (ammo max and recoil unchanged)

It's MUCH more worthwhile to take a moment to throw it down and kill something inside the field for the 40 second buff now

I think a simple fix to make the weapon more viable would be to give it forced impact procs, so it could benefit from Internal Bleeding. It already has a low fire-rate, so it would get double the benefit. Also the throw attack needs to benefit from multishot. It isn't a retrievable spear like the others, so it makes no sense why it shouldn't. (Any more than the concept of multishot makes any sense outside of shotguns)

For larger fixes, I think it should function more like the Chakkhur than a launcher. Give it a higher direct hit damage, and a low damage explosion. This would encourage actually getting headshots as the bulk of your damage would benefit from it. The explosion would clear well in low level content, and in high level content it gives more chances to proc status per shot. With this in mind, I think the explosion range would be fine as is. Probably buff up the ammo if you went this route, because you'd get fewer multikills. There are already a ton of launchers that do the job better, so it makes more sense to try and fill another niche.

You could also give it unique "embedded explosive" effect that gives a damage bonus if you land a headshot, similar to the Zymos.

As is, it's trying to be both a launcher and a marksman weapon, and failing at both. It definitely needs some kind of change.

I think Styanax's bonus should be an immunity to self knockback from this weapon. He doesn't have inbuilt CC reduction for himself so an explosive weapon is usually not what he wants to equip.

delayed explosion and reduced ammo for a spear that only has 3m boom range. good balancing.

This really needed a 7-8 meter blast radius to be viable. 800 base damage is nice, but it will only ever hit 4-ish enemies, assuming you haven't killed the target before it could even detonate. Having a big radius would at least mean it is actually dealing out that damage, and make all the other drawbacks actually have a reason to exist

The sad thing is, DE knows by now that the drawbacks they put on the primary fire for this are drawbacks the community has regularly pointed out for other weapons. They had to have decided that the Afentis would be host to multiple drawbacks the community hates seeing on their weapons.

What makes this even sadder is that riven stats can't even fix the problems they put on the Afentis. The primary fire is by design trash.

The buff also isn't worth the few seconds needed to put the spear down and "reload". Good guns don't need a mediocre buff like this.

It's a good gun with which to buff another gun. It's at it's best when your secondary can benefit from all the buffs it can provide, since the primary itself is... Eeeeeech. It's not bad on it's own, mind you, but it's not particularly great either, and the fuse delay just hurts to see in a game where enemies don't live very long.

Good only for it's buff. Primary fire is poop (mostly due to explosive damage, which is worst type of damage in teh game), and can be ingored entirely. For secondary fire just max out fire rate and reload speed, so it can be throw super fast, and you can switch then to other weapon.

Bugs I've found after just one use:

• Multishots sometimes use extra ammo

• This also applies to Alternate Fire

• Using Alternate Fire on a corpse/giblet does not create a Ballistarii Might Field

• Ballistarii Might Field causes self-stagger

• Ballistarii Might buff lasting only for a couple shots, even while still in the field

Why do I post it here? Because we both know that this is old content and DE is busy preparing a new bed to shit in anyway, aka Soulframe.

It says the buff affects melee, but all of the listed effects of the buff are stats that only apply to non-melee weapons?

Noticed when i built Nidus Prime, that shooting a enemy caught in hes larva with this weapon does not trigger anything except the initial hits damage when you're a client. (seem to work as normal when host though).

Encountering a bug where continued shooting causes some of the 'past' explosions to 're-explode' a few seconds later. Will be shooting down a hallway and have spots where I shot a bolt behind me earlier detonate again. cant seem to reproduce just shooting terrain however.

"If it hits an enemy, they are impaled to the surface for 20 seconds."

Could this be used to pin demolishers down? I would think so considering its not an ability so they cant nullify it.

One other thing, about the stun in the description: "Throw Afentis to pin an enemy and nearby enemies will also be stunned."

What happens is that enemies close to the target where its pinned will have a tiny, almost imperceptible stagger. Which is ironic, because if the player is too close, they'll suffer a full fledged arse-over-teakettle tumble.