Talk:Tenora/@comment-188.102.68.165-20170328192113/@comment-67.11.163.74-20170404082141

Soma really doesn't "need" argon scope. Heavy Caliber is full-retard for anyone who can hit headshots beyond point blank range, and I mean for either weapon. Period.

Leaving Shred off Tenora will make it a pain to deal with hordes, because no punch-through on auto-mode. However, it WILL give the Tenora (slightly) higher burst DPS than the Soma Prime if the Tenora is using Vile Accel and the Soma Prime is using Shred.

Tenora has a much higher status chance, great for elementals, even greater with damaging-proc elements or combos.

Soma P. has high innate slashing damage, so it gets better when full armor reduction or soft infested are in play, but weaker otherwise.

All told:

BURST DPS:  Tenora with a typical full-build will fall short of either Soma or Soma Prime for burst DPS, due to lower crit chance, crit mult, and fire rate. All these in conjunction more than compensate for the increased base damage of the Tenora. It only falls slightly short of Soma Prime though.

SUSTAINED DPS: Same story as with burst, but Soma Prime will be even further ahead due to a much larger magazine.

AMMO ECONOMY:  Tenora beats the Soma by about 10%, but loses to the Soma Prime by about 4%. This is entirely due to weaker crit stats than the Somas.

BURST/SUSTAINED PROCS:  Tenora wins, heavily.

SUSTAINED HEADSHOTS:  Tenora wins heavily, due to nigh-zero recoil and 100 accuracy once it's spooled up. The Soma and Soma Prime suffer heavily from recoil everywhere between mid and long range and beyond.

TL;DR:  It's pretty much up to preference. Tenora's probably a bit better for high level enemies due to better proc rate. Tenora's probably a bit worse for full armor reduction teams, but balances this by being significantly better for soloing versus anything with armor. While the alt-fire is cool, it's probably detrimental to use, due to overly high ammo consumption which even out-weighs being able to swap out Shred, IMO.