Talk:HIKS S300/@comment-86.40.41.70-20141117140110/@comment-25514217-20150105123756

It always depends on your playing style.

I use a 10*** [RED] HIKS since a long time ago, and it just literally obliterates everything except wickers.

My augments are deadly, capacity, skeletonized (this was preset) and I normally have a 5-6 clicks/seg which allows me to even mowe down crowds. WIth Capacity and field supplies at lvl 9, I currently have 115K premium HD HIKS ammo. My mastery for snipers is at lvl 5 so it means i have 1 more piercing and lots of good critical shot advantage, plus I also have lvl 5 mastery for HD ammo.

Except for Wickers, there is no better gun in the game. I also own a 10*** stripper and its probably the greatest boss killers for the simple reason u can kill everything (I once killed a regurgitator with a stripper, it took me a lot but it is still possible), but to me the HIKS is a more complete stuff, as you can kill from distance without running away from enemies. if cornered, pull the HIKS and it will do the trick. if I would have had the chance to change skeletonized for piercing, it would be a monster gun right now :)

What I do to fight wickers is having a poison claw (mine is 10*** [RED]), that delivers a lot of DoT. it takes obviously more time than with a Stripper, but it's still OK, especially considering that I have ONLY for wickers. It is also a penalty-free weapon, so you can literally outrun everything with propper armor and skills augments. Wickers are not a problem for me, and HIKS, well HIKS simply keeps me always calm.

Good weapons to combine with HIKS:

- Sublight COM2 (COM2 will clean your path and you can use HIKS for bosses and chitinous z's. COM2 can also kill wickers. A red COM2 with good augs and high Mastery level can cut wickers open like butter)

- Hornet (Much like COM2, with the advantage of having a better movement speed and 1 augment slot for being "creative". If you choose deadly and capacity, the other can be whatever you want, it will do the trick anyways)

- Jagdfaust (This is my choice, and it's piercing makes life easy against packed crowds. The ammo is expensive though, so without field supplies it is more adviceable the COM2 or the Hornet)

-Stripper (The ideal solution, but then you would need to constantly switch guns in order to get rid of the most powerful z's with a good HIKS shot. Stripper's base damage is low, so powerful z's take some time to die. Anyways, you will not even need a pistol having these two, although a well augmented Ronson 45 [RED] is the perfect match-up)