Talk:Carrier Sentinel/@comment-115.137.249.92-20130918220129/@comment-89.223.33.219-20130922041448

Well, I have spent a potato and only about 30 cores to upgrade some less-frequent shotgun mods(not a fan of shotguns)... and still have some mod capacity left, along with 1 point of Striker(meaning not max range). It can pretty much solo Callisto(and especially Io) up to level 10 totally AFK. Of course, safer to bring a shielded warframe, as you can take some punches after 5th wave, but the trick is that the shotgun will fire nonstop(his burst resets on kill) for ... about 300-400 damage at incoming enemies, taking not more than 3-4 shots to down an ancient, while the sentinel will grab all the dropping loot in the vicinity. Combine 2-3 people like that, and you literally can AFK about 20 minutes of Io\Callisto, while alt-tabbed or doing whatever you want, making farming keys a total joke.

Tested on 50+ corpus - takes 1-2 shots to down them(was even less leveled), they barely get close to you.

The bottom line is - while shotgun rapes everything around you(faster than ANY other weapon, including deth rifle max spin-up(maybe it can outdo it with totally maxed mods and the new Fired Up(which also should affect Sweeper)), the Carrier will grab all the loot, removing any conern about your surroundings, including some cases of melee AoEing, allowing you to take single-target based melee weapons, like Dual Ichor or Fang Prime.

Maybe in the loooong run, the new Djinn-Acrid will outdo Sweeper(although Sweeper still rules the close-range niche), maxing Sweeper is very easy(it has V slot and doesn't take any mats to craft), while to get mini-Acrid, you need 2 formas, and it has no slots(not sure). Better to spend forma on Dual Ichor(if you like mindless hack-and-slash) or soon to be buffed Synapse, then consider getting total endgame sentinel weapon.