The assault rifle is my preferred. With the right mods, I can get an assault rifle with over 75% stability and accuracy, plus between 60 and 75 rounds of ammo. So I end up with ammo close to that of most LMGs, plus with the super high stability and accuracy, I can put most rounds on target, even from distance. Add in my damage bonuses, and right now I absolutely massacre enemies with my AR. I can mow down an entire wave in under 20 seconds with deadly accurate aim.

I do love LMGs, I ran with LMGs a TON in the dark zone in the first game, since I had built my character up as a tank. Absurdly high armor, absurdly high health, and a pimped out LMG, I was usually the last one to die in my groups if shit hit the fan, because it would take the enemies so long to kill me, between my ridiculously high armor/health and my ability to suppress the shit out of them.

However, unless I'm fighting enemies in the same room, I've found LMGs way too inaccurate for me, too much recoil. The right assault rifle, with almost zero recoil, and I'll waste an entire group of elites faster with my AR than I will with a LMG. In the words of Denzel Washington in Training Day, I'm surgical with that bitch. I can quickly get multiple headshots and chest shots from 30+ meters without really trying. And once I get my aim lined up on someone's head, that's pretty much the next 5-10 rounds are going and by that time, the dude's dead.

As for shotguns, I always instantly marked shotguns as junk. However, I found a really good shotgun that does insane damage. The only downside of it is that it only has an ammo capacity of 5 shells, but I have yet to see any enemy other than a named elite survive more than 2-3 blasts to the face. Regular enemies are usually instakill, purple enemies are 2 shots, maybe 3 now and then, and elite enemies are 2-3 shots. Any time I go into the sewers or I'm in a building or interior room during a mission, I've got the shotgun equipped as my secondary. That baby is my close quarters insurance policy.

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