Talk:Synapse/@comment-94.4.16.163-20140531111832/@comment-74.96.148.163-20140604030944

the dps of boltor prime is still higher, dont kid yourself. It's a great focus weapon with crazy dps and limited range. I personally prefer it over the soma for the elemental shenanigans it can pull and better ammo efficency aka higher damage/round, which is very important as every weapon reaches a point where it starts to take more rounds to kill an enemy than they drop

Boltor Prime is, unmodded, 54 base damagage at the same rate of fire as the synapse at 12.5. even with the innately high crit chance/damage, average rounds do 18-20 damage. Of course you can throw crit mods on the bitch to make it nuts (and thats what everyone does) but boltor prime can just throw on puncture mods, more damage, or just stack elements.

Honestly with damage 2.0 you can get away with using a weapon you like for 90% of the game's content. I have a 6 forma'd synapse and I have no intention of ever farming a boltor prime, but dont pretend that the synapse has a higher dps, it doesnt. Different weapons, different builds, different preference.