Talk:Kesheg/@comment-33817771-20180811114844/@comment-24.231.133.238-20180818182659

So you can kill lvl 100 enemies with a melee weapon? Can't say I'm impressed; not one bit. First off, lvl 100 is NOTHING. EHP scaling doesn't reach obsenity until lvl 140, where the most powerful raw attacks wind up doing double digit damage to enemies with over 60,000 EHP.

Second off, it's a melee weapon; AKA: Scaling Damage Extradonaire. You build up enough combo with the right mods (or stealth damage multipliers), and you can just about 1-shot anything in the lvl 100 range. The defining difference is how much combo counter it takes to reach that 1-shot potential. Well designed Zaws can 1-shot level 100 Grineer heavies with as little as 1.5 combo multiplier; Kesheg could take up to 3.5 combo multiplier to do the same.

Long and short of it: It's a terrible weapon, because there are SO MANY better options. It's not a matter of thinking outside the box, it's a matter of mathmatics. Course, the Kesheg MIGHT be good when melee 3.0 rolls out, but we'll have to wait and see.