Talk:Sonicor/@comment-25235016-20160910035311/@comment-67.11.163.74-20161029141048

^ Not true. If you mod it for crit and go for the bank-shots (bounce it off of terrain for extra explosions) you can pull about 50k burst dps with it. 38k of that is in the AoE blasts too. If you don't bank it that falls to about 25k burst, 19k of which is in the AoE blasts.

Really, the central single-target directed explosion loses damage as it travels, going from 3x the AoE explosion damage, to half the AoE explosion damage at max range, so the crit-AoE build is the best build for usability.

The status chance on the explosion is so high that it will hit a 55% of getting at least one status proc per shot (much higher than that with effective bank-shots) if you use both Barrel Diffusion and Lethal Torrent. If you go for pure status you'll lose about 65% of its possible DPS, while not really getting anything useful unless you're tring to stack corrosive procs at a high rate of speed.

Better mod setups would be:

Corpus:  Hornet Strike/Barrel Diffusion/Lethal Torrent/Primed Target Cracker/Primed Pistol Gambit/Primed Heated Charge/Pistol Pestilence/Quickdraw or swap the elements to 90% Cold/90% Electric for magnetic damage, depending on whether you are fighting an enhanced shield sortie or what types of corpus units you expect to face.

Infested:  Same gas build as above, but perhaps go for radiation status if you have a problem with focusing out Ancient Healers. I can't reccomend going for Blast, because infested will end up in... very strange and inconvenient (for you) places. Maybe go Corrosive if you anticipate a LOT of Toxic Ancients blocking your gas/toxic damage.

Grineer:  Viral, Radiation, or Corrosive depending on whether you have 4xCP, what level you're facing, etc. Same critical build.

TL;DR:  You're gonna need a LOT of forma, but oh is it worth it. You'll be seeing numbers around 20k-40k quite often.