Talk:Flux Rifle/@comment-42.3.139.6-20130808025643/@comment-13117751-20130809155803

^I agree with second poster, it's really about the mods you put on it.

With a decent level serration (~6+) and the appropriate element(s), most bosses can be downed in about one clip from the flux rifle, provided you keep the laser trained on them and don't just fling it around as if it's a full-auto bullet weapon.

I find ancients relatively easy to kill with it due to the serrated-blade type damage. You have two options when attackign an ancient with the flux rifle: If your base damage is high (i.e. high level serration) your best bet is to target the head if possible. Otherwise target the unarmored points (i.e. lower limbs) like you would with any other gun so your elemental mods can achieve full effect. People who just arbitrarily point it somewhere at the ancient's midsection aren't exactly doing it right.

Additionally the flux is still a good CC weapon since it will cause staggers on most targets, again making ancients easy to deal with (even if you just barely knick them with the flux rifle for a single damage tick, they get stunned in place for roughly 1-2 seconds, so you can keep multiple ancients pinned simultaneously with this weapon). This effect also works on some bosses, such as Tyl Regor (and possibly others, I don't really pay attention) so i nthat regard it can be aa decent boss-handling weapon as well.