Talk:Stinger/@comment-10743657-20131019190528/@comment-10743657-20131019192726

"There is linkage above of a Warframe DE stating explicitly in the forums that this weapon has a DOT.  As far as I know, people have claimed it doesn't work in missions but I have seen no real testing information on it not working either.  Meaning we have no real proof that it doesn't work.  The only thing we know is that the DEs say it exists.  To me that is more authoritative then any of the other info we have.  "

I took it to mean that they intended it to have a DoT. [DE]Megan is just a community coordinator, not a programmer. I doubt she tested it or looked at the code to see if it was actually working. It is not working though.

"The difficult part about this is that the best way to test it would be to have the thing fire ONE shot and watch for a tick on the HP bar.The issue is that I am pretty certain once sentinels acquire a target they shoot until it is dead even when it goes out of the standard range.  It is also impossible to control an enemy's behavior.  This would almost certainly take two people to test - one person to have the sentinel hit an enemy and then run.  And another to stand there and watch the HP bar with no sentinel on at all to see if it ticks down.   I HIGHLY doubt anyone has done that test yet.  Which means that the claim that it doesn't work is probably about as valid as the claims that weapons have innate puncture (something that happens with almost every new gun at least once and has only actually been true for the Miter). "

It's not that difficult. Sentinel do not shoot at enemies when they're out of range. That's why a Carrier with unranked Striker mod is ideal for this. This is the exact test I've already done.