Talk:Despair/@comment-186.15.85.209-20130530022624/@comment-70.24.205.199-20130530104630

Please don't mention Lex as a good weapon... it's the lowest DPS pistol in the game and doesn't even have armor piercing damage or armor ignore like other low DPS weapons (paris and snipetron) have to make up for it.

Despair does more DPS than Akbolto (which you can check for yourself here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai3njS0ds_RVdDNMeElJcjdsajRKSG05SWR1RmlzaVE#gid=0) and has higher ammo efficiency. Additionally its +50% damage to medium grineer and -50% to light infested is more an advantage than not because medium grineer are harder to deal with than light infested. It also has higher ammo efficiency than the Akbolto.

While it does have less DPS than Akfuris, it's not that much less and Akfuris pay for their higher DPS by having horrible ammo efficiency and they don't have armor piercing damage like Despair does.