Talk:Paris/@comment-66.31.16.198-20130512032502/@comment-70.24.204.36-20130519024722

Sure, no clip to reload, but reloads after every single arrow. The Paris essentially has a clip size of 1. And yes, it does tons of damage in a single arrow with serration and other mods of your choice, but these mods have the same benefit on other weapons. The _fact_ is that if you take the damage per arrow and the rate that you can shoot arrows, it has lower DPS that every single other rifle. Putting on speed trigger and fast hands isn't a solution because you're either losing mod power that could have gone into extra damage or whatever weapon you are comparing to can do the same and put on speed trigger and fast hands as well and remain better than the Paris.

Plus you have to account for air travel time, and no, it's not just pure skill. You see an enemy walking along a straight line and yes, you do have to predict his path and shoot ahead of him, that's fine. But what if he suddenly stops or suddenly stands up out of his cover? You can't predict that so the people who keep saying that other people have no skill need to stop and realize this.

The numbers don't lie. The Paris has terrible DPS. The only thing that redeems it is that it has the bolt weapon type, so when you're fighting very high level enemies the armor ignore is useful, but it's still probably better to use the Snipetron or Boltor in such a case.

Thunderbolt changes things a bit but because it's unpredictable it's hard to judge. If you get explosions when there aren't a bunch of enemies around it's not too useful for example, but sometimes you can hit the jackpot.