Talk:Synapse/@comment-175.137.73.83-20131203181944/@comment-98.214.114.208-20131209200155

So let's do the math on this! Both being crit weapons, they'd have the same build pretty much.

Serration

Point Strike

Vital Sense

Hammer Shot

Split Chamber

3x elemental mods

OR Heavy Calibur in there if you have it. (I don't sadly)

10 base damage on the soma, 125 on the synapse

Serration takes that to 26.5 and 331.25 respectively

Split Chamber goes to 53 and 662.5

Elemtal mods add 47.7 and 596.25 each

So full damage would be 196.1 and 2451.25

Adding in crit damage with hammer shot, they'd crit for 1647.24 and 13727 respectively.

While the Synapse would keep that 13727 dps all the time because of 100% crit, the soma doesn't since it only has 75%. However, it also has a 15 r/s fire rate. So with full normal hits the dps would be 2941.5, full crits would be 24708.6  So taking 75% from crits and 25% from normal hits... you get 735.375 and 18531.45. Or... 19266.825 dps.

So.... Synapse is 13727 dps, soma is 19266.825. So unless someone can find an error in the math, there's really no comparison here. One's kinda WAY higher than the other. And Heavy calibur would only help the Soma more because base damage would actually go more in its favor. Having 10 base damage and 15 shots per second, it actually has a higher base dps at 150 than the synapse. Adding in much higher crits...Yeah...