Talk:Dual Ether/@comment-71.207.83.54-20130606172326/@comment-70.118.60.93-20130608025724

Dual Zorens are impressieve late-game. And so are Dual Ether, I have both rank 30 and potato'd, but honestly after using both extensievely they're pretty much the same in overall effectiveness.

Dual Ethers are a bit more consistant, as they ignore armor and do a high ammount of base damage with a respectable fire rate, as they are also guranteed to stagger on each hit(The jump melee knock-down is quite impressieve gainst bosses). The range of the dual ethers are better than the zorens so you'll be getting multi-hits more often. Quite litterally nothing wrong with Dual Ethers, they have all the best attributes for a normal-swing attack weapon, and work well in conjuction with ash and loki's cloak abilities. Works amazingly with all elemental damage mods. They're also incredibly effective for slide attacks, as they have the highest slide-attack damage for any non-heavy melee weapon.

DZ's kinda suck at first, however when you get your fire rate and crit chance+crit damage mods maxed out later on it becomes a beast. The criticals are incredibly damaging and happen often, definately the best melee weapon to use with ash's smokescreen or loki's invisibilty, with DE right before it. However, criticals are only chances and even with the DZ its not like they happen 50% of the time under normal circumstances, even with mods. They also have high inate stagger capabilties and can keep most things stun-locked. Never rely on non-crits or charge attacks, unless you want to have fun with its fast charge time. Slide attacks do decent damage, but they also do so once(You cant double slide attack). However the main feat of it is that it propels you very far on its slide attack, making you extreamly mobile on any frame.

In the end, the average time it takes for DZ's to get a few crits in order to kill a lvl 50 mob on pluto is about the same for a DE to kill it through regular attacks.They're both equally awesome and strong against all factions(Including infested).

IMO, its a matter of playstyle.