Talk:Stradavar/@comment-65.95.37.150-20160513022444

Okay, so, wild idea here.

The description for this thing implies that it's a simple, basic, no-nonsense rifle.

What if  the base damage was given a boost, and the crit chance was lowered? Keep the somewhat gimmicky crit builds (4 mod slots for crit chance/damage?) to the specialists like the Soma.

Have the single fire mode get either another base damage boost to compensate for the slower firing rate, or give it something like innate punch-through to sort of keep to the crowd-clearing theme that the first auto fire mode starts off.

While we're at it, drop that mastery rank down to something really low. MR 8 is absurd. This isn't the Dragon Nikana, here.

Some weapons having good crit chance and others not doesn't make a lot of in-universe sense to me. We've already got crit or status-based rifles in the game. This new idea can't have the single shot mode getting a crit boost anymore, otherwise it'd just be used as a better Latron. It can't have a lot of status chance because it's supposed to be basic.

Let's use this as a simple rifle for someone who's trying to learn how to mod the weapons with base damage mods and quality of life mods. I was talking to someone who was enjoying her new Soma Prime, but she didn't have a clue what "critical hit" meant. That kind of person has no business trying to use a weapon like that.

TL;DR - Drop the crit chance overall. - Base damage boost. - Single-fire mode gets either damage boost or innate punch-through, not crit chance. Must still have lower DPS than auto mode.

It probably still wouldn't perform all that amazing against the super-hard endgame stuff since it wouldn't have any force multiplying effects you could rely on, but the dumb basics on it should be simple to mod for, and reliable enough for at least some endgame content.

How's that sound?