Talk:Thermagnetic Shells/@comment-4617696-20161021213314/@comment-24417021-20161023093921

I have to say as an avid sniper user (threw 15 forma on Vectis and plan to throw 150 on Vectis Prime), snipers underperform in comparison to a majority of weapons because of their low status. It's the same thing for Opticor in the sense that raw damage alone won't help you late game unless it's an absurd amount (like crit melees with Acolyte mods).

The only sniper that actually does something &mdash; a lot of something at that &mdash; is Lanka because the fact it has damage backed up with a lot of status. Vectis Prime doesn't come close to Lanka even though it has more status and fire rate because it has IPS damage, so a lot of the time you'll be proccing one of the IPS damage types and Slash is the one that shows up rarely even though it's the only useful proc of the three.