Talk:Panthera/@comment-68.105.7.64-20150115043932/@comment-192.122.237.252-20150115165143

"Kohm can chop up enemies as well, and is not a complete piece of garbage."

Kohm also requires very high amounts of rare resources

- 500 Oxium, almost as much as you need for Zephyr in total, and it was probably because of this requirement that Oxium Osprey farming drops finally got boosted by a significant amount (used to be only 1-3 Oxium per Ospery Kill, now each Osprey kill can yield anywhere between 8-12 Oxium, meaning four times as much on average than before). Without the help of an extremely rare oxium reward alert, assuming an average of 10 Oxium per Osprey, that's fifty Ospreys you need to kill before they kamakazie to have enough Oxium.

- 2 Argon Crystals. Yeah.

- 500 Cryotic, probably the easiest of all these resources to get, just 5 defended excavators on an Earth excav. mission will do the trick, but it's still otherwise a very grindy resource to get.

The Panthera, in comparison, only needs an Orokin Cell and two weapons, one of which is easily buildable from common resources on any two combination of planet mission runs. The other - Mitter - does require grinding the dual Vor/Krill boss but at the same time you can use it to level up some lower tier gear, sell the stuff they drop you don't need (I do that with Ember parts from Ruk farming, ten runs worth of Ember BPs is very profitable), and once you do have the BP and all four parts, it only costs credits to build the weapon - no other resources.

Personally? I think the real reason for all these new weapons needing other weapons as components for the build is to encourage people to explore a wider range of weapons. After all, why would anybody want to use the Latron after getting the Soma or Latron Prime?