Talk:Daikyu/@comment-26402786-20150516020525/@comment-68.2.30.167-20150516153340

The problem is that players typically are geared to quickly kill high-priority targets with end-tier weapons anyway (especially when using Warframe powers to further increase damage.) By the time the Daikyu stands out as a weapon, the enemies are powerful enough (and numerous enough; spawn rates increase over time in Survival missions) that the team is driven out. Lastly, physical damage tends to gobble up most of the actual chance to proc gas or blast, even when dedicating 5 mods to fire/toxin damage and Hammer Shot. It would be different if there were modules you could equip to guarantee that a specific element's status effect would trigger, and if status-focused weapons actually did corrosive showers or HUGE clouds of gas.