Talk:Shotgun Amp/@comment-87.113.19.229-20150602051733/@comment-69.224.68.90-20160823100838

" The only primary shotgun that really stands out atm is the Hek... everything else is pretty subpar compared to most good rifles."

You're kidding, right? Trolling? There are multiple shotguns that are absolutely incredible in both sustained and burst damage. The claustrophobic design the makes up much of Warframe's tilesets makes the reduced range of shotguns fairly irrelevant considering most can reach 20 meters before significant damage fall-off. They can have massive status chances thanks to their high pellet counts and several have powerful augments. Most of them can one-shot nearly any regular enemy up to level 100 with the right mods.

As you mentioned, Hek, but also Vaykor Hek (probably the best example of a "side-grade" in this game, doesn't have the augment but has other definite advantages), Sancti Tigris (excellent range, perhaps the highest burst damage in the game outside of a few explosive weapons and the Prime version is looking to be at least comperable stat-wise, more a side-grade than an upgrade), Sobek (great status chance with syndicate augment, AOE corrosive with Kela's), Kohm (HUGE crowd DPS, if not for the spool up time this would be one of the best weapons in the game, beating out Soma Prime) and Drakgoon (absolutely shreds narrow passage ways and cramped rooms, is even better at this with the Kela augment) are all absolute beasts. Others like Strun Wraith (even it's base version) and Phage scale easily into lategame sorties and raids. Boar Prime too used to be one of the best weapons in the game until it suffered a pretty drastic nerf (you don't nerf weapons if they aren't powerful, if shotguns were shit then it wouldn't have been hit so hard by a nerf). The only outright BAD shotguns are the MK1-Strun (for obvious reasons) and the Convectrix, other than those Shotguns are probably the most consistantly strong weapon groups (far more bad rifles and pistols than their are bad shotguns).

TL;DR: You're an idiot, shotguns are absolute beasts in this game.