Talk:Sybaris Prime/@comment-190.150.169.57-20170531174314

While people are wondering why this is considered a sidegrade to the Dex Sybaris, I'm wondering why it's even considered similar to it at all when the Dex is superior in all content that you'd use a burst fire weapon to begin with.

If you look at the numbers alone then sure, it's a pretty solid weapon with clear advantages at the cost of only 5% crit and 0.5 reload speed, but in practice the only good thing this gun has over the Dex is the higher base damage.

You don't need to build for status unless you're going up against level 150-200+ enemies, before then a crit build with a gun with a decently high crit multiplier and base damage will kill faster. After those levels is when a crit build starts to fall off and a status build would kick in, but if you're fighting against enemies those levels there's a multitude of better weapons to take than a Sybaris. I mean, sure. If you're a die-hard Sybaris fan that wants to use it for both early and late game content then it works but you'd still get outperformed by other weapons that deal with higher-level enemies significantly better.

Something people seem to ignore is that dual 60/60 element mods result in a 60% elemental damage decrease, which can be a lot on a gun with high base damage. The Sybaris Prime's base damage increase does not compensate for that loss, resulting in the Dex Sybaris having both a stronger crit build (no red crit without specialized mods, but still high crit rate) AND higher damage output thanks to the elemental mods. Sure, you could argue that the higher status chance would proc corrosive's armor reduction or viral's health reduction more often but what's the point if they'd still be alive and a single burst of the dex with 90% elemental mods would kill those targets anyway?

TL;DR - Sybaris Prime is better than the BASE Sybaris and great to use if you don't have the Dex for any reason. If you do, though, it's a waste to use the Sybaris Prime for anything other than mastery fodder unless you don't have a better weapon to use in late-game content.Dex Sybaris has far higher damage potential due to it's seemingly smaller but higher crit and the Sybaris Prime's higher status is flat-out negligible in content that can die in a single crit burst of the Dex.