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WARBOND TIER LIST

By THETA 🌭 ZERO

With so many warbonds, one is bound to be the best, and one the worst.

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Category: Achievements, Characters, Classes, Co-op, Game Modes, Gameplay Basics, Loot, Maps or Levels, Multiplayer, Secrets, Trading, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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Guide Index

Overview

INTRO

DEMOCRATIC DETONATION

CUTTING EDGE

URBAN LEGENDS

FORCE OF LAW

POLAR PATRIOTS

STEELED VETERANS

TRUTH ENFORCERS

SERVANTS OF FREEDOM

BORDERLINE JUSTICE

FREEDOM'S FLAME

VIPER COMMANDOS

MASTERS OF CEREMONY

CHEMICAL AGENTS

Comments

INTRO

This is going to be quick and dirty in terms of presentation, but there's so many warbonds and balance patches that it makes it easier for this guide to stay up to date.

The warbonds are ordered by value, decreasing in quality as the list goes down, and I tried my best to remain as objective as possible (although I will comment if I think the cosmetics aren't good looking).

I only play difficulty 10 for all factions, so you may get more mileage out of weapons and armor on easier difficulties than what I say.

DEMOCRATIC DETONATION

GOOD
EVERYTHING.

BAD
You'll wish every warbond was like this.

CUTTING EDGE

GOOD
Is carried entirely by its weapons, including stun grenades.
Armor designs are cool.

BAD
Stupid armor bonus that you shouldn't need anyway.
If you need this armor for the Illuminate, you should consider not running into their tesla towers.

URBAN LEGENDS

GOOD
Extremely helpful armor bonus.
Funniest emote in the game.
Offers some of the best stratagems in the game.

BAD
Gray camo color scheme is drab and not unique compared to default colors.
Melee weapon is fun but gimmicky.

FORCE OF LAW

GOOD
These support weapons are nuts.
Seriously, these would be nerfed day 1 if Arrowhead wasn't paranoid about another backlash.
The armor is okay.

BAD
Idiotic booster.
Pretty boring cosmetics.

POLAR PATRIOTS

GOOD
Fun and unique weapons, although they're still outclassed by a few others.
Beautiful armors, but bonuses aren't unique.
Top tier victory poses.

BAD
The booster practically does nothing.

STEELED VETERANS

GOOD
One of the best armor bonuses in the game.
Okay weapons, but you're really just getting it for the revolver.

BAD
The booster is functionally useless.
Armor just looks goofy or indistinguishable from the default sets.

TRUTH ENFORCERS

GOOD
Phenomenal cosmetics.
Fun weapons.
One of the best boosters in the game (if you combine it with Vitality Enhancement).

BAD
No real standout items, everything is just mostly okay.

SERVANTS OF FREEDOM

GOOD
Simply incredible weapons.
Fantastic armor design.

BAD
What may be the worst armor bonus in the game.
Non-armor cosmetics are a little bland.

BORDERLINE JUSTICE

GOOD
The weapons, armor, and strategems are all very fun.
The booster is extremely helpful if you're farming samples.
Cool designs.

BAD
Although everything is good, there's nothing overwhelmingly powerful like in other warbonds.

FREEDOM'S FLAME

GOOD
Gorgeous cosmetics and armor designs.
Decent weapons, although fire is still a little questionable in terms of a damage source.

BAD
A candidate for, if not the, worst booster in the game.
Worthless armor bonus, although has some value if you're inexperienced.

VIPER COMMANDOS

GOOD
One of the best emotes in the game.
One of the best boosters in the game.
One of the best victory poses in the game.
Lovely armor design.
Decent armor bonus.

BAD
There's nothing fun nor unique in this whatsoever, besides the booster.
The knife (if you disagree then you fell for stupid memes instead of actually using it).
Cosmetics are just green camo, but some people like that.

MASTERS OF CEREMONY

GOOD
Decent armor bonus if you rely on your primary a lot, especially ones with slow reloads.
The emote is funny, I guess.

BAD
Everything else.
The gun sucks too since it doesn't have medium penetration, so its high DPS is nullified.

CHEMICAL AGENTS

GOOD
Gas grenades are alright.
A few armors are okay to look at.
The stim pistol is funny.

BAD
Ugly, fart-green color scheme.
Unique stratagems are not as good as their reskin counterparts.
Emotes and victory poses are extremely underwhelming.
Armor bonuses don't make sense with how gas is intended to be used.

65 Comments

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THETA 🌭 ZERO [author] 2 Oct @ 12:03pm

The swords were nerfed into oblivion for no reason. They're fun but not useful. The Halo warbond is horrendous and none of the guns or armor do anything. The silent footsteps are meaningless because stealth is broken to hell and back, and the suppressors are literally indistinguishable from the normal guns in terms of enemy detect.

The Dust Devils warbond is currently one of the best since it actually can kill things. I'm not going to touch this tier list until the devs rebalance the game like they said they are about to, because right now the only weapons worth using are explosives since light penetration doesn't even damage 1/3rd of the total enemies anymore and the enemies in general have bonus damage resistance that explosives ignore anyway.

Your basic rule of thumb until they fix this game's balance is "the more it explodes, the better."

auron il top rottamatore 2 Oct @ 3:11am

Thanks a lot for your tier list

I have 2 questions:

1) what about the swords? Are they useful?

2) Can you kindly update your tier list adding the new warbonds? (Halo and Dust devils) What do you think about these?

THETA 🌭 ZERO [author] 23 Sep @ 5:59am

@Superprogramer03 Yes. It's one of the best warbonds right now.

Superprogamer03 23 Sep @ 12:21am

Is the new Dust one worth it?

CarrotLord 13 Sep @ 5:13pm

Personally, I love the pyrotech grenades. they do fire, explode spawners, come with a bonus 2, and have a delay that is perfect for bugbreaches.

THETA 🌭 ZERO [author] 30 Aug @ 2:37pm

"I tried my best to remain as objective as possible (although I will comment if I think the cosmetics aren't good looking)."

This means I don't factor in cosmetics when ranking these.

DirtyDangles410 30 Aug @ 12:16pm

Man you really hate green to put the 2nd best warbond at the bottom bc of the green

Antarctic Captain 30 Aug @ 4:18am

oh shut up, ODST warbond is great, not perfect but great. It has high dmg low ammo guns that value accuracy. Also its the stealth warbond.

KiraKiraSame 28 Aug @ 10:22pm

The best thing about Chemical Agents is that its still better than the Halo Warbond

StupendousScorpio66 22 Aug @ 12:17pm

I think the cosmetics are too subjective to be a factor when judging them. For instance, yes the urban legends cosmetics are dull white and gray, but I kind of like that for this game. Plus it goes well with the urban camo weapon skin.

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