Talk:Soma/@comment-16584725-20131006163415/@comment-89.223.33.219-20131007142942

Well, if you take exploit or sim into highest dps consideration... well, that's wrong. But you are right, Soma is technically the strongest primary in the game(beating Ogris and Lanka, let alone Flux and Supra\Hind) in single target dps. Yes, Synapse is behind. Because it has bad damage(pretty much same as bullet, just some plus against corpus) and terrible crit mechanic(disadvantageously high crit chance and low crit damage)... and it sucks at range. As for shotguns, the only competitor is Strun Wraith, but it's a pain in the ass to use it, so only if you have Hell's Chamber and good setup - it does pull highest raw damage in the damge at it's range. Right now I outburst my Acrid with just potatoed(7 mods) Soma up to level ~125. Past that Acrid's armor ignore may catch up, but a fully-built SW with crits and 150% AP can push top damage up to 200.

Pucture is a great waste of damage, since Soma is already pretty tight on mods, you are potentially wasting one slot just to add unnecessary rate of fire and rare occasion puncture efficiency. Maybe in some scenarios, like farming Helene or shooting precise lines of infested on Cyath, puncture may give you some... ammo efficiency(not dps, actually), but otherwise, survival or T3 defense, it's only full single target damage.

Besides, who exactly cares about "DPS"? This number can be terribly biased by sims and rate of fire. DPA(damage per ammo) should be the correct value for any weapon. And especially when this weapon has quite sad ammo efficiency, the only REAL dps\dpa mod would be Wildfire, contributing both to sustained magazine damage and adding fire modifier.