Talk:Jaw Sword/@comment-109.230.27.237-20130729092310/@comment-99.72.167.116-20130803210044

I'd love to know why people think adding every element to a weapon "maximizes" its damage. Armor Piercing is the only one not reduced by almost every faction that doesn't have a weakness to the other elements, plus it wastes 3 (4 if you use the dual mod) mod slots for these elements.

The only time I'd ever use every single element is for a support weapon, meant to apply elements (e.g., all my sentinels have the three elements). Focus Energy at max rank (for the charge speed) reduced my damage from ~1000 to 300 on Grineer (and would do roughly the same thing on Infested if you exclude the 3x damage from the Serrated Blade element found on almost every charge attack).

While I don't have a build for Jaw sword alone, I can say that unless you want a purely support melee weapon, the above build will not help you all that much.