Talk:Grinlok/@comment-24411567-20140323165211/@comment-13342856-20140326230801

By comparable I thought you meant in power and viability, not style and mechanics. You did state that Vulkar is much better, which is just plain silly considering that Grinlok is better in every single way. Having slash / impact is better than just impact, and its 200% multiplier means it still consistently hits more hard than Vulkar, regardless of lower base damage and 5% less crit chance. That's not even taking into account it's huge DPS over Vulkar due to it's higher mag size, 50% faster reload speed and it's ridiculous 94% status chance.

The only worthwhile comparison is actually the Vectis. It's over all worse, though, till the Vectis stops one shotting if it doesn't crit and Grinlok's status effect chance can kick in. You can say Vectis' mechanics are different, but they're not, just tricky as you'll actually get ~5 shots in compared to Grinlok's 6 if you manually reload the Vectis if your Grinlok lacks fire rate / reload mods.

So yeah... I see a vast difference in Grinlok versus Vulkar. I liked Vulkar when it was first released, even supercharged and forma'ed it twice, however, over the course of ranking it 3 times, I realized how it's the worst obtainable primary in the game and grew to hate it. Grinlok however is far from the worst and is unique and fun because of it's hybrid nature and high status chance. Vulkar is like Karak, just bad with nothing special, or fun about them. To me, comparing Grinlok to Vulkar is like comparing Karak to grakata/soma instead of to Braton, just silly.