Talk:Gaze/@comment-83.251.160.98-20181212182044/@comment-75.158.101.120-20181229052029

Damage is still damage. Especially versus high level Corpus, or Corpus with buffed shield conditions like you can encounter during Sorties.

Even despite armor scaling, against level 150 Grineer Bombards/Napalms and Heavy Gunners, the Gaze with its high crit (91%+) paired with decent status (46%+) still takes them down much quicker than the Cycron can.

So I'm not sure why you wouldn't use the Gaze instead, given significant gains in range and damage, while costing only a marginal amount of Status. There's literally nothing to argue in favor of the Cycron but its unlimited ammo.

The nature of it's battery reload is harder to time perfectly as well, and even if you do it still takes 2 seconds to fully "reload", while the Kitguns sweetspot configuration is a 1.7 second reload with 3 additional rounds in the magazine over the Cycron.