Current flavor of the month for soldiers, use with -> http://auno.org/ao/db.php?id=245574

Trash.

"Trash."

ROFL

I like this flavor. =)

I love how NerfdSoldier called the Jobe Portal Guard trash. The SP-blaster trash, and now the type 5 trash. I wonder what he think a good Soldier weapon is..lol

guess he's using fist only :p

all soldiers should reset and go 1he/fastattack..

i love seen solds use stygs :P

at lower lvls, you might see a soldier get away with a styg. and by lower lvls, I mean lvl 30-40 low. plus, people at first glance would see the styg and think enf. so it would prolly surprise the hell out of them when you hit TMS ;)

i wonder why a ranged energy weapon makes radiation damage!!! to mess up with arul sabas!!!!!!! i think that spb is best weapon for soldiers in this game and the most annoying thingy is that u can equip spb at lvl 120ish

Not Soldier flavour of the month anymore.
Type 5 Kyr Machine pistol ftw.
Same dmg type (w00t for saba's) and 2 specials (FS and Burst) + JPGPP (FA).

This might still be a good option for support prof's, but for hardcore DD's...survey says avoid.

edit to above:
Soldier can perk SMG to do some awesome extra dmg also...another thing in favour of the Kyr MP

KMP maybe the best choice for totally DD domination but this little beauty still pwns big time, and will save IP for pvping as the energy carbine type 3 uses same skills....in short KMP/Jobe = awesome DDing closely followed by this and jobe pistol combo.

You can get away with using radiation arul sabas if you want to use this type of weapon, but I personally would go with machine pistol.

This is junk because it's +Rad while JPGPP is +Energy... Also no perks and no research to support RE while SMG has the tasty SMG Mastery line as well as some boosts from the "Marksmanship" research.

So what does Power Up buff again? :p

Pistol/SMG is fine if you plan on only using light artillery...
But with Pistol/RE wouldn't you be able to use heavy and light artillery in combo and maybe even follow it with champion of nano?

And why doesn't power up add to melee energy since no other reg perk line does :/

@ Tarradax..."This is junk because its +Rad while JPGPP is +Energy"

Not true, first off there is a perk line buffing RE (Power up) as well as the 'Force Recon' research line for soldiers. As a 220 soldier I have almost as much skill in RE as I do assault rifle so no issues there, as for damage, sure its not quite on par with a KMP/JPGPP but its very close. Bare in mind most the comments about this were before LE and the new shark so RE isn't used much these days, but its still a good choice for a weapon for those wanting to be a bit different.