Talk:Ballistica/@comment-84.55.9.151-20131017164320/@comment-70.112.36.39-20131017184336

Comparing Burst Fire to Despair, the Ballistica does shoot a bit faster yet not enough to overcome the double damage per Despair shot vs each bolt of the Ballistica. Tested a controlled count of 5 to empty a Despair clip, 4 to empty a Ballistica clip, and 3 to empty a Hikou clip. Not the best test, however, I think in terms of DPS the Despair wins. The other key factor that Despair has is the fast reload, where Ballistica is much slower at a 2 second reload.

Now Let's look at that charged shot, at 100 a shot it out does the Despair shot for shot. The charged shot should do fine as a crit build as with the right mods you can obtain 33% crit chance and 330% crit damage. 271% additional damage will net you 371 base damage, 1595 crit shots before factoring in multishot at all. (3190 for 2 proc and 4785 when 3 proc).

Personally I'm going to be treating it as a pocket sniper rolling crit build with Hornet Strike, Magnum Force, Pistol Gambit, Target Cracker, Hallow Point, Barrel Diffusion, Lethal Torrent, and Quickdraw.