Talk:Vasto Prime/@comment-24743832-20160316232730/@comment-108.211.237.179-20160327192606

I'm 'only considering DPS' because you're only considering maximum damage output even though you have to go pretty far into endless missions before lex P and Vaykor Marelok are killing things quickly that vasto prime doesn't already.

Why would you lower the fire rate and reload of the vasto prime in order to increase the damage and crit? Why would you want to remove the differences between weapons and make them all just the exact same? That is absurd - it is better for weapons to be able to accomplish similar things in different ways. That's what choices are actually supposed to be about.

Also, utility? The Vasto Prime already offers a ton more utility than the other two because its status rate, while lower, is still good and it fires more than 2.5 times as fast as the others to make up for it. 100% status options on the marelok are the only thing that is really notably better at that, and even then you're shooting at a lot more targets with the vasto since it has a much higher fire rate and it has a very low downtime where you can't fire when you have to reload a 1 second reload even gives you a lot more opportunities than the marelok has to reload for free, and a TON more than the lex.

Normalizing the weapons isn't how you increase utility.