Talk:Grakata/@comment-108.16.170.162-20140816053316

When to use this weapon: in really long, and I mean REALLY long, Grineer or Void survivals. Why? Because of that status chance. Put corrosive on this weapon, and you can remove that broken armor scaling on those heavy gunners. Put radiation, and you can essentially have a Nyx on your team. The thing is, it is not a damage weapon, no matter how well you mod it. A Boltor Prime is the better weapon for raw DPS. However, past about 1 or 2 hours in the Void, heavy gunners essentially stop taking any form of damage. That's where crappy weapons like the Grakata and Tysis start to actually become viable. Tysis' pure corrosive damage alongside a high status chance means you can fire a couple rounds at a heavy gunner, then take your Boltor Prime back out and start doing damage, and do the same with a Grakata and Brakk. So, no, this weapon is not useless, just not viable unless you're some hardcore MLG pro who lasts 10 hours against level 3000 heavy gunners. Same goes for the Tysis, though you could replace the Tysis with the Marelok if you want to do both damage and corrosive, but Marelok also does physical damage. Status chance is king in the REALLY late game. Just doing puncture damage really fast just won't cut it.