Outside of the limited usefulness of the clicky... BFG can go in primary, and allows a 2nd weapon in offhand. It melee crits for ranger. It double attacks in melee. It gets double (archery) damage for rangers on nonrooted stationary targets. It is enhanced by Trueshot disc. It also still consumes arrows when meleeing. Planking for the quest is eventually removed.
If you wanna do some napkin math its a 20/50 MH, that is effectively a 40/50 on a nonrooted stationary mob, and 80/50 during trueshot. The one thing I'm having a hard time pinning down personally is what the damage formula is. I believe I was mistaken in thinking it follows a weaker formula in melee.
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Non-trueshot non-crit : 50-120ish
Non-trueshot crit: 100-240ish
Trueshit non-crit: 100-230
Trueshit crit: max I saw was 450ish
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Going back and looking at parses I'm seeing similar numbers to that, which would be more consistent with it using a normal melee formula. So realistically outside of TS its performing a little better than reasonable access weapons atm (but consuming arrows which is icky). Inside TS its a whirlwind of death.
Looking at a few different sufficient length fights I've got melee parses 40-45dps w/ my normal melee weapons, then TS BFG parses of 65-85 (still seeing a fair bit of variance there).