Talk:Azima/@comment-16155433-20160702133349/@comment-67.11.163.74-20160906001150

Luca's using messed up builds for the AkStilettos, and probably the other weapons as well. Don't listen. Azima isn't horrible, and definitely has some strong niche uses, but burning down high level grineer isn't one of them. The AkStilettos dwarf it with a status chance three times as high, and with proper corrosive status builds will burn down that level 140 CHGE orders of magnitude faster than the Azima.

Sure, Slash damage and good status will put through nice slash procs, but even with crit headshot slash procs (too bad this weapon is baaaaarely even crit viable with the maxed out primed crit mods) it's not going to do big enough bleed ticks to offset the plain fact that the AkStilettos will be stripping the armor at literally twice the rate while doing much, much higher flat damage.

Azima doesn't have great status. It's got good status for a machine pistol, but it's not even remotely what you'll see out of things like the Prisma Grakata, Braton Prime, Burston Prime, or god forbid the much better AkStiletto Prime.

Akjagara will roll all over the Azima for both status per second, and slash damage procs per second, as well as the size of those slash damage procs. If you consider them being to the head, the AkZani will hit some higher procs on crits, but it won't hit them nearly often enough to catch up to the AkJagara. The same goes for the Twin Kohmak, which will rip the Azima for status per second once it's spooled, and will also rip it in terms of damage and even headshot damage from slash status procs.

If you consider the clip size and reload rate of the AkJagara, the Azima will probably pull ahead in slash proc headshot damage, but it's not going to strip armor much faster, and AkJagara are pretty bad, to be completely honest, due to recoil and relatively poor accuracy.

It's not even close to the AkStiletto Prime though, especially in terms of killing armor heavies in a short time. Period.