Talk:Baza Prime/@comment-172.92.103.182-20191220060813

Faster reload, more bullets, those are nice things. People are under-selling the CC/SC tweaks, though. Consider the following:

With a maxed Point Strike, the vanilla Baza's crit chance is 65%. Better than 50/50, but not by a whole lot, so you can expect 26 shots in its magazine of 40 to crit on average. With a maxed Point Strike, the Baza Prime's crit chance is 70%, which causes that average to jump to 28 out of 40, or 42 out of 60. This is important because the Baza's non-crit damage is piss.

With two 60%Elemental Damage/60% Status Chance mods, which are pretty important in the Baza for proccing Viral in conjunction with Hunter Munitions, the vanilla Baza's status chance is only 22%. At that point, only 8.8 shots (so 9 if we round to the nearest whole number) out of 40 on average will proc anything, which is especially bad on an IPS weapon. Give those same two mods to the Baza Prime, and that proc chance jumps to 30%, which means 12 shots out of 40 will normally proc, or 18 out of 60.

So while the Prime is only slightly better than Base without mods, the fact that mods stack multiplicatively rather than additively means that those little bumps (or not so little, as the Prime literally has 40% more base status chance) go a long way.