Talk:Despair/@comment-24.183.39.38-20130618132923

This weapon DOES NOT have inherent penetrate on it. The information above is INCORRECT. This was tested in a solo game making the host issue not a factor. The information on these two weapons is completely off. Kunai are claimed to ignore armor while Despair are claimed to have 50% armor penetration. I am guessing they both completely ignore armor. The pentrate effect probably happens on both weapons but ONLY when the pinning effect that happens on all bolt weapons procs. My guess is that the only differences between these weapons are:

1.  Despair has a higher base damage but deals half damage to infected. It would be nice to do a comparison/scaling chart on how that pans out in max levels with various mods on it. IE - does despair and kunai damage on infected level out at max levels with full Hornet and diffusion on? My guess is that it would get very close.

2.  The only other thing is that Kunai DO have an innate stagger effect that works on several types of mobs. If you have some gunslinger on them you can stunlock ancients and some bosses. This does not work on Heavy Grineer (but does on some Grineer bosses) or Corpus. Despair seemingly does NOT have this effect but it could be added with a stun mod.

I have not tested range or the Ruk bullet attractor effect which are the other two glaring differences claimed in the descriptions which are also probably innaccurate.