Talk:Prisma Skana/@comment-73.175.19.61-20150529234059/@comment-97.117.253.43-20150530073007

You should compare full builds, not get three mods in and then start declaring things, especially when the amount of mods you're using for each weapon isn't even equal.

I'm not going to theory craft a full-build right now, just briefly mention why your thinking is flawed.

If you equip the Bright Purity mod on the Prisma Skana it's reasonable to assume that you'd put a 90% elemental on the Dakra Prime to keep the number of mods on both weapons the same, so your actual comparisons after Bright Purity should be:

112.3 vs 250.8

Then moving onward with Spoiled Strike:

147.42 vs 364.8

Then if you wanted to just assume a flat critical hit multiplier with no regards to critical hit rate or trying to average that out:

560.196 vs 1,021.44

Which is a much more fair comparison because now each weapon is using the same number of mods. You'll notice that the theme up to this point is that Prisma Skana is doing about half of the damage that Dakra Prime is doing. The higher critical hit rate and the effect from the Bright Purity mod will help Prisma Skana close this gap, but everything else you can do is going to keep these numbers pretty linear.

Berserker will theoritically help Prisma Skana faster, but the reality is that you can get 3 stacks of Berserker with 15 or 20% crit rate weapons at roughly the same amount of time; it's more a question of how many enemies you can hit with regards to Berserker than it is the critical hit rate of your weapon.