Starfield - Pistol Tier List

Did he mention that the Eon, Rattler, and Sidestar all don’t come in an “advanced” version? It’s important to note that they fall off bad in the late game

Ive found a star shard on the columbine in the ducting on both my play throughs

Ps- MI is magnetic induction rounds.

I love the look of the regulator, but cause the eagle is strickly better.
But with my pistol build, the razorback is my oneshot monster. 9.8k is its first shot damage for me currently.

Yea... no. With proper mods, D tier Kraken is one of the strongest weapon in the game...

refined < calibrated < advanced < superior

All of the mag weapons I assume are based off the "Metal Storm" and the caliber is the bullet the cartridge fires.

Where's the Shotti or whatever it's called? Definitely the best pistol.

Razorback with fire rate and reloading mods make it the best IMO. Especially for headshot builds.

On my first play through and I found a legendary Va'ruun Starshard at like level 25.
Does nearly 400 total damage a shot.
Poison damage + anti human + one inch punch.

Absolute monster, still MELTS enemies at level 39.

Rattler, Eon and Sidestar do not come in Advanced versions, they top out at Refined (which is the third level after normal and calibrated)

I have yet to see a normal Va'ruun starshard. I’ve only found 3 in game all with a rarity effects, and I’ve been playing for nearly 90 hours. Literally looking for one is pure chance. Upside is that they absolutely melt anything.

Magshot was pretty good. I reckon i used one for quite a while. But I reckon all pistols are d-c at best… :-/

Magshot surprised me , it reminds me of Dead space !

DID THAT GRASSHOPER BREATHE FIRE!!!!!!!!!

Dude why are you full auto on these. Like the rattler is way better in semi auto. This list is sus.

Solstice. American Pronunciation: saal ·stuhs British Pronunciation: sol · stuhs Not sol - us. Sorry, that was just really bugging me.

Dude.

The rattler with a binary and extended mag fucks.

One tip on getting a lot of Va'Ruun weapons is to head to the Serptinis system and jump from moon to moon and board at least one ship per ambush. Almost every moon and planet 1-3 Va'Ruun ships will ambush you there. Board the biggest and you'll loot a lot of Va'Ruun items, including the particle pistol (and the rifle and dagger). You'll need at least a point in the Targeting Skill to board a ship, though.

I got a Rattler with a binary trigger mod early on and I ended up using it as my primary for a very long time. Underrated gun.

What have you got like 30hours in the game, there’s so much misinformation in this video

Quick note:
Weapon tiers go as follows:
Standard -> Calibrated -> Refined -> Advanced -> Superior.

One thing to consider that would seriously change your list is that some weapons max out at "refined" (1 tier below the best quality tiers), while others can exist at "advanced" (best quality). Note: Armor maxes out at "Superior", whereas weapons max out at "Advanced". This affects how effective they are mid to late game. Once you account for these min/max damage limits then your listing will change.

Urban eagle has to be s tier

I have an instigating razorback that I got very early in game and now I’m level 41 and I can still sneak attack and 1 shot enemies with it. Modded for suppression range and scope

Eon gets the whiteout round option: moves it to A or S tier while this is brokenly OP.

Can really tell this guy knows what he's talking about, LUL

My pistol tier list is basically, "not a rifle, F tier" LUL

Found an advanced urban eagle early in my /first/ playthrough.
At the time I didn't think anything about it but I'm still using it as my only pistol because of its insane damage comparatively.

Urban eagle is S tier , I have a nine rare variety that hits for 203 (lvl30 , pistols lvl3 , guns lvl 2)

Striker A tier

letting y'all know that theres 5 qualities for guns and rarity and mods dont change dmg unless it has perks and mods (ie. hitman, exterminator, ap rounds, handloader (if you get lucky to do >100% dmg) and quite a bit more) that increase dmg, and the qualities goes like this basic -> calibered -> refined -> advanced -> superior (it's labeled as advanced cuz of a bug untill befesta (sorry for the butcher of the name guys) fixes it and you can tell if one advanced is stringer then another for the same gun) and before you say skills increase the dmg of certain weapons it wont show untill you look at the weapon at a weapons workbench (just want to help anyone confused or band new to the game about the guns)

This is not a proper handgun review, the creator even says it himself that he hasn't used mods or attachments on the weapons all that much. Some attachments can completely change the weapon ex. Coachman w/ hornets or urban eagle over regulator( w/ binary trigger it can out dps eagle by a long shot). In short, this guy doesn't know what he's talking about.

Nice list, I’m stoked to see what you think of the heavy weapons! I just started a pistol wielding professor/explorer savegame (basically Indiana Jones in space) and have been loving the Old Earth Pistol, can’t wait till I’m higher level and can get my hands on an XM.

The Va'ruun Starshard drop rate must be tied to player level, because I'm nowhere near NG+ (plot-wise)) but my character is almost level 100 and I've been getting them as drops for ages now! I'm rocking a legendary with one-inch punch, elemental and extended mag - it's easily the best weapon I've ever found!

.43 MI is different than the .43 Ultramag because it shoots a completely different projectile actually! It uses magnets (and I think some sort of explosive) but it’s basically launching little magnets at a high rate of speed. If I’m not mistaken it’s basically rail gun

Rattler with long barrel, extended mag, suppressor and binary trigger looks and functions awesome! It looks goofy in base model tho

Hands down advanced varuun starshards never look back again

The razorback is the best, easy to get balistic sniper in the game.... given the fact i have seen 2 hard targets drop with bashing.... it is far easier to get a quality razorback. And it out ranges most ballistic options that can be silenced.

The laser pistol is called "solstice", not "solace".

I mostly agree, xm2033 is my favorite by far. I would probably put the regulator at A and the Urban Eagle at B though. The two extra shots on the Regulator make it mostly tie the Razerback and both can have the binary trigger resulting in a fast rate of fire. The Urban eagle is just too slow firing to ever feel good. But there is a magazine out there that adds ammo capacity to a few guns including the Urban Eagle. With all 5, It's 11-12 capacity and you can take penetrating rounds.

None of these weapons are hard to find or rare. I got every one of these before hitting level 20. The drops are so random that to one player this or that may seem rare but to another they are common drops. The more you interact with factions & the more faction quests you do increases the drop rates. Also if you use vender cycling (buy 1 weapon, wait 48 hours go back to vendor) their selection changes. All random but no normal weapon has been unfindable at any weapon vendor thus far

Do you guys do any research before you pump these videos out? "Refined then modified" you sound like an idiot 😂

I started on Very Hard Difficulty, and I went to an outpost to fight Pirates. I managed to obtain a Legendary Kraken right off the rip. The Legendary Aspects are: Extended Magazine. Explosive Rounds. This little auto Grenade Launcher carried me through my fist play through. I use nothing else.

At level 13 I found an urban eagle with 156 per shot damage in a random no-name cave. One shots single digit level enemies and 2 shots up to like level 15-20 I think

If you board Varuun ships on ground or docking with them and taking over the ships, you will tend to find more Varuun weapons as well armor. The best I have seen is a Refine Varuun Starshard. And even that seen very rare to see show up. I haven’t seen “Superior” on any weapons drop as yet which is the highest quality level, but I have seen “Superior” on all three pieces of Armor that being Spacesuit, Jet Pack, Helmet.

+1 sub for rating the M1911 properly 🤣
I haven't played yet but my fav FO4 Mod is an M1911
ETA: I think I will start first playthru as a scoundrel so this vid is appreciated!

Have a razor back with one inch (shotgun pellets) and bleed. Stupid good

Superior items are higher than adavnced

Found the starshards, 3 of them, in the regular game around lvl 50. Maybe under that

The magshot is the only real competitor to the Starshard. The XM2311 should really be an A - the only real reason to take it is that it's an absolutely fantastic stealth pistol and the better guns can be suppressed - it has all the right mods for stealth gun play. The Solace (it being in the same tier as an Eon is a real head scratcher of a choice) also works really well as a stealth laser pistol - one of its best features is that it has a huge array of mods available to it (all the laser weapons do).