Talk:Dera/@comment-36.232.155.143-20130808152657/@comment-13117751-20130808170521

No, it does not.

However, there's a give and take. It fires a 'laser' "element" damage type, which has its own resistances it meets on each enemy. When enemies level up, typically their defences increase exponentially to BULLET damage, however this hike in damage reduction is not as noticable for laser elements.

So, your damage is reduced by enemy  resistance, but you will find on high level enemies your damage is not as noticably reduced as a bullet-based weapon.