Talk:Dual Ether/@comment-184.23.128.196-20130418084359/@comment-70.126.43.116-20130418092942

Having played extensively with both, I've gotta go with the Dual Ether. DHS were my melee weapon of choice until the Dual Ethers came along.

DHS are widely known to be good for charge attacks, which they hit with for an inordinate amount of damage. However, the DHS are kind of garbage for regular attacks, as they are slow and don't hit for much. As such, you kind of have to charge attack with them like all the time. Bear in mind that all charge attacks with all weapons ignore armor.

The Dual Ether, having their *natural* armor ignorance (in non-charge attacks) are fantastic against Grineer, using regular attacks, which stun 100% of the time and are crazy fast. Most weapons really shine vs. 1 enemy type, but the DE really shine against Infested and Grineer, because they naturally do triple damage vs. non-Ancient Infested, and pierce through the natural armor of the Ancients, on top of stunning them, which is pretty important vs. the Ancients.

That's not to say they aren't good vs. Corpus, because they are still good given their natural stun ability and fast attack speed. Toss an Electricity mod in them and Corpus will go down just as fast as Infested or Grineer.

Basically, the Dual Ether are better than the DHS in every way except the Charge attack damage, but with the DHS you HAVE to charge attack to be effective, whereas with the DE you are better off NOT charge attacking, because they are so fast and stun 100% of the time. That said, if you are an especially big fan of 1-shotting things, then maybe the DHS are for you, since they will 1-shot most enemies on their charge attack up until about...Cedna, I would say. Just be sure to upgrade Reflex Coil and Killing Blow. But, again, with the DHS you HAVE to charge attack. They aren't worth using the regular attack.

I've said many times to my friends in Skype that the DE need to be nerfed, and I mean it. Til then, they are the best melee weapon in the game, in my opinion. They just have too much going for them (100% stun, blindingly fast, ignore armor, and triple damage vs. Infested.)

It's kind of silly....