Originally Posted by
McKnuckleSamwich
I used 2x Kyr'ozch special edition RE on my 200 agent for a period.
I never fleshed out the setup, but just based on the gear I had on, I found that it was a bit luck lustre. The consistent Aimed shots using a 250 Cobra outperformed the higher frequency proc damage on the rapiers.
I had stripped my agent of his CSS at that point, so had mostly a mix of Ofab and whatnot. The main issues with the rapiers was that you hit MBS on those things really fast, and then the only boosts you get are from stacking +add damage and crit.
In inferno, where I was doing most of my grinding, the obvious problem was that as soon as you started shifting from AR to crit/add damage, you start missing hits.
I kind of wanted to try the setup with dedication, but I just got a bit peeved with the MBS.
The basic premise at higher levels (basically 170+) is that you want to leverage geometric multipliers (MBS -> maxes out at about 5.4 for enforcer/shade/soldier, not sure about agent), which, basically just means you take your base damage on the weapon and multiply it by that prof+weapon specific factor.
For agents with rifles, it's quite high, but when you have hardcap limitations below 2.5k MBS, (the SE rapier is like 1500 I think) it's a really serious detriment to damage dealing because the max damage based on multipliers is much, much lower than it is with a weapon that has a higher AR cap.
Then, you want to multiply again, using crit.
Agent benefits more than most profs using add damage due to the procs, but generally speaking, the higher the geometric multipliers you can get the better you'll perform, from a weapons perspective but all the special edition weapons have built in hardcaps that put them at a significant disadvantage.
I hunted around for a long time for a onehanded rifle/pistol split AR, but there are none. The general concept still works, and with concentration and agents naturally high crit rating, the onehander is more reliable on agent than most other profs.
If I was going to try something, I'd do a onehander +SE kyr'ozch rapier and see how that goes.