Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27981725-20160315201636/@comment-25717421-20160318022211

If you really want to craft a gun, get the Gigavolt, and give it Deadly, Overclocked, and Piercing. This thing will annihilate crowds, since its damage depends on enemies hit, and you'll be seeing a whole lot more zombies spawning. Even without Adaptive, it will shred NM zombies, provided there's a big enough group of them.

Plus, the G-volt is less than 2000 alloy, so it won't really affect your efforts to get something really powerful (like a Black weapon).