Leech Gun
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Leech Gun
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[edit] Overview
The Leech Gun is a weapon that can be used by specialists who have placed skill points in Leech Gun (training). The gun has an optimal range of 60 meters, holds a 50 round magazine and fires a continuous beam of energy at its target. The leech gun is a relatively low damage weapon, but has the added benefit of awarding a portion of the damage it does directly back to the user and any nearby squad mates.
The standard leech gun uses power cells as ammunition and causes physical damage. It will damage and heal both armor and biological health. Virulent leech guns use pharmaceuticals as ammunition and directly damages the targets health, bypassing armor. Because it only damages health, it will not repair the users armor. At later levels, cryogenic and incendiary leech guns become available. These also heal both health and armor, so long as the target is not immune to the weapon's damage type.
Leech gun use 2 ammo every time it "shoot" but it also deal twice its damage.
Leech gun is not very effective vs biological being (those without any armor, just an hp bar) because you don't gain any armor while shooting them and they also tend to have high hp regeneration, which counter the low damage of leech gun.
Leech gun "bypass" Mortar's armor. It will damage both armor and hp at the same time. This allow you to kill one of them with a leech gun (unlike some other weapons), but it will still take time and alot of ammo (4-7 rebeam, so 200-350 ammo) with a weapon of the same level than the mortar. Using 1-2 EMP bomb will be faster and maybe cheaper, but if you are out of them or your need to kill at range, you still can do it.
One of the downside of Leech Gun is that there is no EMP leech gun. So you will have to carry EMP bombs or rifle to deal with some mobs, like shield drones.
August-27-08: Virulent Leech Gun seem to use Cartridges ammo now.
[edit] Historical Variations
Before the leech gun became what it is today, it was known as a Density Field Gun. The weapon did much more damage than the leech gun of today, but did not heal the user or his squad. Crafting recipes applicable to density field guns may still be found in the wild, but may not be applied to the leech gun.
[edit] Subtypes
| Subtype | Damage type | Ammunition | Magazine Size | Image |
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| Leech Gun |  Physical
|  Power Cells
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| Virulent Leech Gun |  Virulent
|  Canister Ammunition
| 50 | 
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| Incendiary Leech Gun |  Fire
| Canister Ammunition
| 50 | 
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| Cryogenic Leech Gun |  Ice
| Canister Ammunition
| 50 | 
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[edit] Damage progression
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| Level | Leech Gun | Virulent Leech Gun | Incendiary Leech Gun | Cryogenic Leech Gun |
| 5 | 18 / 92 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 9 | 27 / 129 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 14 | 41 / 200 | 40 / 196 | N/A | N/A |
| 19 | 64 / 308 | 63 / 303 | N/A | N/A |
| 24 | 100 / 475 | 97 / 467 | 110 / 513 | 94 / 460 |
| 29 | 152 / 732 | 150 / 721 | 169 / 791 | 148 / 709 |
| 34 | 237 / 1130 | 233 / 1111 | / | 227 / 1093 |
| 39 | 366 / 1742 | 358 / 1714 | / | / |
| 44 | 564 / 2687 | / | / | / |
| 49 | 872 / 4143 | / | / | / |
| 50 | 950 / 4518 | / | / | / |
