If you’re gonna nerf the drop rate of Queen & Matriarch Cores - you gotta buff the Jupiter & Aphelion
As of now - since the drop rate of cores has been hit; the Jupiter and Aphelion are even less valuable to take into a raid.
The guns are just gonna be that much harder to craft, yet they don’t perform outstandingly well against the other weapons in the sandbox
The aphelion doesn’t really fit anywhere in the game at the moment, it’s outclassed by a number of guns in PvP and it isn’t the best thing to use in PvE either
considering it’s a gun you make from beating the hardest boss in the game - this doesn’t seem right.
The Jupiter is the same in that it doesn’t do anything exceptionally well for PvE besides hit things from range and “pierce armour” it’s still rivalled by Equalizer and Hullcracker in real world use and TTK on arc
So are we gonna see these guns get buffed if the core rate has dropped? As of now, people are just taking deadlines in over the premier PvE weapons as it’s safer and cheaper
If I’m gonna take these guns in, I’d at least like to feel like I’m one of the most powerful players in the raid, instead of a loot piñata
Just my two cents
Posted Jan 27, 2026, 1:46 PM UTC