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After getting my noggin filled with all kinds of useless junk and got caught up on my training I decided to make use of it in the battlefield. When you first pick up a leech gun it seems like a rusty piece of junk. After persistence in learning the art of using this piece of technology, here is my in depth analysis.

They are not a good tool for “doing damage”, in fact you really ONLY want to use them when you or squad members are hurt. In fact in my testing it seems like they do roughly half or less their standard damage if you’re at full health and armor. I could be wrong but this is how it seemed. I’m no engineer, I don’t know how these things work, I’m just trained on how to use them. I’d argue that in most situations it’s a poor weapon to use while hunting Bane solo. Its true power is when in a squad and you can destroy your enemy like a solider but keep your party up like a Medic.

It’s best to attack at around 40 yards, kneeling with full bead on the target, locked on and your leech gun be pumping out a really good stream of damage. The damage and ammo consumption is about equivalent to a soldier’s chaingun. A sonic attack, physical attack, or something similar WILL get your stream interrupted and since it take about a second for the beam to start once you get interrupted, generally it’s all over and time to swap to another weapon.

Damage done to an enemy’s armor refills your armor and the heath damage done refills your health. For this reason I believe Virulent leech guns are actually counter productive which the same assumption for injection guns. Novice leech gun or injection gun users might notice an increase in performance with virulent damage, but ideally at expert level skill non-virulent varieties are best. You WANT to be filling up your armor by leeching your target’s armor while doing damage to their health using Decay.

They are GROSSLY overpowered in war games. If Doctor Victeonus thinks he’s unstoppable with his Medical skills, with a Leech gun at expert level skill I’m completely unstoppable. Combine a Leech Gun with decay as described above and there’s no way you’re going to lose a fight.

Compared to the injection gun, which is a absolutely beautiful weapon of mass destruction, Leech guns if you haven’t deduced by now are a HIGHLY situational weapon. For a Medic, Leech guns are useless because Medics will focus their time healing via tools and logos abilities. For an Exobilogist, Leech guns are amazing especially when combined with Hazmat armor and later on Exobilogist skills that grants your squad resistances.

While I recommend expert level training in Leech guns for Exobilogists, novice level training in Injection Guns is recommended as well core damage should be done with Injection Guns and Shotguns while swapping to Leech Guns as needed. Medics are best to just focus on expert level Injection Guns since most Medics don’t generally use Decay.