Talk:Lanka/@comment-29580146-20161113030446/@comment-24417021-20161209182816

Lanka is by far the best sniper in the game right now because it has a very large base damage and reliable status. It's also better than a large selection of weapons because of these traits.

If you're a Mag user, this is also the best weapon you can take for offensive use of Magnetize since it's a projectile with a high amount of punch through and will continuously proc status effects and deal damage (sometimes one shot will last for the entire duration of your Magnetize). Though outside the Simulacrum I failed to see Lanka do the same things I witnessed in there with the conjunction of Magnetize because the projectile would almost immediately dissipate. It may have been because I was not host of the game at the time or there were a bunch of walls the projectile was hitting against while in the bubble. If you do happen to take the Mag + Lanka combo, I would suggest Gas over Corrosive as the continuous status procs and high damage leave a lot of high damaging damage-over-time effects that end up stacking. The more enemies in the bubble, the more procs there will be.

Testing with Mag + Lanka combo: I've tried both Gas and Corrosive Lanka on eight level 140 Bombards in the Simulacrum and from testing, most of the time one Gas Lanka shot would be enough to kill all of them while it took two or three on average for the Corrosive one to kill the same eight (sometimes Corrosive would also kill all of them in one shot, however). The reason for this, even though Gas damage suffers a penalty of -50% on Cloned Flesh and Electricity suffers a -50% on Alloy Armor, is because Gas procs actually apply two instances of Toxin damage and they will do 125% of your Lanka's total toxin damage (this means toxin mods, so prioritize more on toxin mods than heat ones if you plan on using Gas for any weapon). The Gas proc is also multiplied by crits, head shots, and the multiplier given from Magnetize. Don't forget that these procs continuously stack on the same enemies so firing more rounds will effectively shorten your time to kill them.