Talk:Spira Prime/@comment-25593327-20160217160748/@comment-116.87.84.225-20160217190943

Thanks for the math, here's a little of mine in return!

Let's just throw some typical crit build mods on there, shall we? Say... Hornet Strike, Barrel Diffusion, Lethal Torrent, Primed Pistol Gambit, Primed Target Cracker, and three straight elemental mods? Let's have them all max rank for simplicity's sake, assuming we've forma'd our Spiras and Spira Primes sufficiently to do that.

Normal Spira vanilla damage: 55 * 3.2 * 2.8 * 3.7 = 1823.36

Spira Prime vanilla damage: 47 * 3.2 * 2.8 * 3.7 = 1558.144

Normal Spira average damage:  1823.36 *0.2825 +  1823.36 *4.2*0.7175 ≈  6009.7946

Spira Prime average damage: 1558.144*0.5695 + 1558.144*4.2*0.4305 ≈ 3704.6433

Well... that's significant, but I'm sure the fire rate and reload time save the Spira P in the burst/sustained DPS, right?

Normal Spira Burst DPS: 6009.7946 * 2.5 * 1.6 = 24,039.1784

Normal Spira Sustained DPS: (6009.7946*10)/(10/4 + 1) = 17,170.8417

Spira Prime Burst DPS: 3704.6433 * 3.33 * 1.6 ≈ 19,738.3395

Spira Prime Sustained DPS: (3704.6433*12)/(12/5.328 + 0.75)  ≈  14,807.4565

But maybe we aren't taking full advantage of the Spira P's enhanced fire rate with this build. After all, with only a 0.15 crit chance base, it may not be suited to crit builds. Let's go straight damage: swapping out the crit mods for another straight elemental and Bore. I won't "bore" you with the complete calculations here, but let's check out the final figures:

Burst DPS: ~14,346.39

Sustained DPS: ~10,586.18

So keeping the crit mods seems to be a good idea, then. I guess that makes sense, they're primed mods, after all. What if we swap an elemental for another fire rate increase in Gunslinger?

Burst DPS: ~21,658.83

Sustained DPS: ~14,295.88

Hm. The extra fire rate really does help the burst dps, but the lower time between needing to reload kinda hurts the sustained DPS, doesn't it? Either way, it still doesn't measure up to the normal Spira, to which we can give a similar treatment, anyway, for the following results.

Burst DPS: ~26,378.13

Sustained DPS: ~16,695.02

So yeah, I think you're right. Numbers don't lie. Spira P is awful.