Talk:Hammer Shot/@comment-172.116.241.113-20180411072736/@comment-112.200.200.224-20180522184435

Serration+Point Strike+Vital Sense+Dual Stat+Dual Stat+Argon Scope+Bladed Rounds+Split Chamber almost always has better DPS than any combination where you replace one of those mods with Hammer Shot.

Not to say Hammer Shot is garbage... it's just that its niche is much more specific than most people realize it might as well be garbage outside of that niche.

To benefit from Hammer Shot without losing out on DPS your weapon should have decent crit, decent status, have a full auto mode in order to make status count, and should not be extremely accurate or low recoil because high accuracy means you might as well use the advantages offered by Argon Scope+Bladed Rounds combo when landing consecutive headshots.

That leaves you with the three weapons you mentioned (especially the Amprex since the chain lightning will almost never score headshots when jumping to new targets), plus maybe the Panthera in sawblade mode. And if you squint really hard, the Synapse and the Secura Penta. But the catch is... all these weapons have a disposition of 3 and above, and the Quanta Vandal has 2. At disposition 2 of the Quanta Vandal, a riven will almost never outperform Hammer Shot so that's fine there... At 3 disposition, you can get the same amount of crit damage and better status from a riven, but because weapons do not benefit from status greater than 100%, which you probably already have even without a riven, there is no need to choose a riven over Hammer Shot. At 4 and 5 disposition, forget Hammer Shot entirely and get a riven.