Blacksmarsh is the first hub of Hexen II, so I'm always interchangably adding in an S or not lol. Which considering Doom is also referenced in XPiratez... well in any case my brain can't differenciate the two.
Take all the grading with a pinch of salt, of course. Availability is indeed a massive game changer, but since it's so random, I can't possibly use it as a metric for any sort of tier-based coding (well if I did I could only reliably look at weapons you could buy and the techs that unlock as such). Hence, it's entirely based on how I feel it performs stat wise in comparison to others of it's category with a minor pinch of "this is what it felt like on use".
For whatever reason, I don't think I ever used the DB much, and I've always found I highly value good range on shotties unless you can one-hand them with a melee weapon.
