Talk:Synoid Gammacor/@comment-147.134.142.125-20141220201921/@comment-204.210.103.136-20141229014112

Magnum force is pretty terrible. Sure, it looks like it increases your damage by 66%, but what you're forgetting is that you're already using Hornet strike, which boosts damage in the exact same way, by 220% for a total of 320% damage. unfortunately, 66% is only 20.63% of 320%, meaning that it's only increasing your overall damage values by 20.63%, making it worse than even a faction specific mod. The only mod that would really be worse to use would be Hollow Point, for exceedingly obvious reasons. Unless you've already got Hornet Strike, Barrel Diffusion, Lethal Torrent, and 4 elemental mods on your weapon, this is absolutely useless, and even then, unless you're playing void or PVP, a faction-specific damage mod would do 50% better than this mod. Even beyond that, if your weapon is something like the Aklex, Lex Prime, or Magnus (accurate with good crit stats) Even the dreaded Hollow Point is significantly better than Magnum Force.

The reason for this in comparison to Heavy Caliber for primaries is that, for the longest time, secondaries, having Hornet Strike (3.2x) and Barrel Diffusion (2.2x) were utterly dominating all primaries (with Serration for 2.65x and Split Chamber for 1.9x), all the time. It started with the Lato, and went all the way up until the super crit primary, Synapse, appeared on the scene. To balance it out, DE released the corrupted mods Heavy Caliber and Magnum Force. Obviously Heavy Caliber, rasing damage to 2.65x as well, brings the damage for primaries up to a max possible base of 4.3x, whereas secondaries were now only up to 3.88x, and finally fell out of power.