Talk:Opticor/@comment-25532101-20150510225739/@comment-31.204.150.118-20150515155835

It has already been mentioned that most enemies can not handle the top damage anyways, modded for charge speed you can get it to fire half charged shots within half a second which is basically nothing so you can quick fire 5 shots in the time your super high spike damage build manages to charge 1 shot. Plus most charge speed builds use Shred anyways so you also get 1.4m punch through. Once the enemies get tougher you still charge in 1 second and head shot them.

That is why building for recharge speed is better than raw damage.