Specialist weapon

A specialist weapon is a weapon which benefits from stat boosts when used by a specific armour class. For instance, the shotgun is a specialist weapon of the heavy armor, meaning that using the shotgun and the heavy armor together results in a boost the the weapon's damage, range and time before overheating. The stat boosts scale with the weapon's level, although some scale faster than others.

Only some weapons are specialist weapons, and a weapon can only synergize with one armour class.

Use in strategies
There are several examples of strategies making use of the specialist weapon perk. Some notable uses include the common use of the heavy armour in conjunction with the machine gun in solo mode to use the weapon's fast overheating to trigger the invincibility, or combining the light armour with the ray gun for the highest possible dps in deathmatch.