Talk:Soma/@comment-16584725-20131006163415/@comment-16584725-20131007181939

I was just reacting to that one sentence about Soma having highest dps, which was calculated without taking armor or reload into consideration.

Soma, is "good", I guess. It's not as much overpowered weapon as many players make it sound. As a primary, maybe. As an overall weapon? Not even close. Problem is, there is too few good primary weapons and massive difference between mods for rifles and pistols doesn't help either.

About Acrid vs Soma. You should be able to shoot at least 4 shots per second with Acrid. With that, Acrid overtakes Soma against mobs with around 200 armor (1lvl Grineer trooper (26lvl if you go for head), 60lvl Napalm/Bombard, 100lvl Charger, Ancients starts with 400 armor). If you manage full 6.5sps, Acrid is better all the way. (calculations without reload, because I am lazy, and without rate of fire boosting mods, because you can get same/better damage w/o them and they are just ammo guzzlers)

(Some people may wonder, why compare primary and secondary weapons, when you can have both. It's true, but when you have weapon with better damage and ammo efficiency, why would you ever switch. In that case it's better to have some utility weapon as complement, for example Ogris/Torid for AoE and monstrous ammo efficiency.)

Dps is important. The faster enemy dies, the less threat is it for you. But yes, high dps at the expense of no ammo in a few seconds (I am looking at you, Twin Vipers), is no good either. Probably best way to compare weapon would be by dps per clip with reload and total damage per ammo reserves.