Talk:Gaze/@comment-39053279-20190607042232/@comment-75.158.101.120-20190629234057

Gaze is not meant to be an area clear weapon like the Atomos. The chaining is just a small bonus to what it can already do. Gaze is better than all the other Kitguns at melting heavily armored single targets (or multitarget with enemies behind them) even if you build it for Full Crit. And that's the only way you should build Gaze for that matter. It can orange crit with no rivens and just primed mods, unlike any other Kitgun for example.

The Atomos on the other hand suffers from a significantly lower fire rate than the Gaze, and by proxy of having bad crit, also significantly worse ammo economy. The time to kill for any higher leveled enemies with the Atomos is not even close to the Gaze.

TLDR: Gaze is MUCH better for single targets and with punchthrough, especially if it's built with Splat/Killstream using the Ramble grip to address its range (a massive range boost without losing much damage).