Talk:Boar Prime/@comment-190.207.35.197-20130930160547/@comment-89.223.33.219-20131001092651

There is no endgame shotgun besides Strun Wraith. If you don't have one - pick a different weapon type and give your mods to Sweeper. Sobek\Hek are pretty equal, with Sobek being sustained dps weapon and Hek - burst. None can do well at higher content, due to terrible reload time of Sobek and low magazine size of Hek. None have decent crit to go around boosting AP damage. And their damage per pellet may provide burst, but isn't much bigger than rifle\gun counterparts, such as gremlins\hind. With advent of Soma(even if gets higher mastery requirement), shotguns are pretty much deprecated.

Now if they ever release a "lesser" Strun Wraith(although with Boar Prime - I doubt it), with ~130-150 damage per shot, 6+ magazine size, 2.5s> reload time and at least some crit power (20% 200%) - that could be an endgame shotgun, which both has the potency to kill a target within it's magazine size, doesn't bring too much downtime with reload and scales well with level. Well, we can only hope...

If you like Boar Prime's crits, and try to make a parallel with Soma... No, just no. Soma has 87.5% crit and 840% crit damage. Even with 150% AP, BP's ~50% crit chance and 380% crit damage won't be enough to cover it's mediocre damage. Maybe among shotguns in general, Hek and Sobek, BP's crits and sustained damage are an upgrade, but it's still not enough for endgame.

P.S.: I do not deny that weapon has potential, I just answer the question that it's not an endgame weapon.