Talk:Shaku/@comment-2601:243:701:C4EC:2C3F:AD24:8BB8:8B3C-20180325225410

It's worth considering that, with this weapon's stats, you can also build it for gas damage. The point of that would be to put as much attack speed as comfortably possible (Primed Fury + Berserker) with Shattering Impact. While gas is stacking and ticking, the armor is also being removed with your regular hits, which are also now keeping you comfortably alive with regular impact procs. This means that you almost in a way have a counter to gas' downside of not being able to penetrate armor. Shaku is, if I'm not mistaken, one of the very few melees that can do this apart from maybe the Endura (A close one could also be the Caustacyst, with its innate corrosive damage and high status chance, but lower than average attack speed.) It's a way to have gas' incredible damage potential through stacking along with a way to strip armor on the same weapon, so that when you're trying to stay alive with Life Strike, you could potentially end up putting in a lot more work damage-wise than a slash-based weapon, which deal less raw damage and have armor and shield piercing as their main selling point. Since with the Shaku, gas can sort of do that too, and has more raw damage output (if you hit five enemies, for instance, within a radius of three meters of each other (the gas proc range,) and all of them receive a gas proc, now all five enemies have FIVE gas procs ticking away their health, if I'm not mistaken,) AND has reliable crowd control, I would say that it has a very large amount of potential, especially in solo play where you don't have corrosive projection stacking or teammates that help with crowd control, agro and revives.

Basically, this weapon does a bunch of stuff, and to a really impressive extent.

Raw status damage that stacks and is increased with elemental mods Armor stripping Crowd control

While its armor stripping, status damage and CC might not be as good as, say, a weapon specialized for each one respectively, I would say that the capabilities to which it can perform these functions make the Shaku a very useful and effective damage and utility weapon that is very much worth considering, in my humble opinion, especially for higher level missions where crowd control, status damage and the effective armor stripping of Shattering Impact are much more desired and effective.

Thank you for your attention and consideration. Please take it upon yourself to give the side-grade weapons of Warframe more of a chance, by opting to think outside of the box a little bit. They all (probably) exist for a reason.