Talk:Flux Rifle/@comment-80.220.206.10-20130819131738/@comment-89.223.33.219-20130820022420

Get Torid and win. Until now, I thought that Flux indeed dealed 200 damage as...damage, not just dps. I knew it was super OP, but it did burn though ammo, and therefore was not a weapon to fire endlessly without backup ammo. Now that I've read it's 200 damage is only 200 dps, meaning 10 shots of 10 damage per second. So essentially, it's just a zapped up Burston, except for range. Low damage, big magazine and horrible ammo efficiency. In this case, comparing nuker to AoE coverage is wrong. If you just want a rifle to burst through levels without care(except care for ammo), then get this and dont bother farming Braton prime, at least because Flux deals Serrated Blade damage. If you, however, want better application of primary weapon, namely AoE coverage - I would recommend Torid. Ogris is good, but it's suicidal damage, charge, jam - simply makes it hard to master. Maybe if you can barrage 2000+(modded 500) big AoE blasts with fair precision and no damage to yourself - sure, Ogris is top, but Torid doesn't have the liability of suicide\charge\jam and, while overall deals less damage(and inpairs your movement), leaves stacking clouds, which deal fair damage on defense missions, when you have either Vauban simply permastun everything or you or targets are stacked\otherwise controlled.

When I hit 7, I'd go for Torid-Acrid combo, because Torid is much easier to use than Ogris, as you can throw some grenades at grineer\coprus or kite back infested a bit and see them all melt in poison, but you cant use Ogris, unless you are in safe spot both from yourself and from your enemies.

Acrid would cover any single target damage, and the way I see it now - it's a secondary weapon that takes the whole role of primary(like the Gremlins I use now). I just don't see how this ammo-killing half-wit of a minigun would do better than a gun that can stack huge damage on single target or just deal as much damage with dot on multiple targets without actually burning all your ammo.