Talk:Aklex Prime/@comment-2600:1007:B000:756C:105F:90A5:464:7346-20200124222321

This weapon is a high investment disappointment. It has the highest mastery rank requirement of any weapon in the game, so you'd be mistaken for thinking that it must be a good weapon. At the time of writing this, it's not. It has one polarity in the exilus mod slot, which doesn't even match the polarity of the mod it needs most in that slot, Steady Hands. So it may as well not have any at all. It has bad recoil, without Steady Hands you need to be inside your enemies pants to fire as fast as possible and get all your shots to land. Reload is pretty bad as well. 3 seconds is the longest in the game excluding certain shotguns that reload one shell at a time. Fire rate is pretty slow and works against it as a status weapon. Corrosive procs reduce the enemies current armor by 25%, regardless of the weapons damage. This system favors fast firing weapons, so this is a bad choice for corrosive stripping build. Slash is the lowest damage of it's physical types, so a viral slash build is also out of the question. In short, this is a terrible status weapon. It works best as a crit weapon. But crit weapon builds are not in a great place as a crit builds on a secondary ask for a lot of investment in endo and credits for maxed out prime mods, as well as the forma to slot them. Things most players won't have in abundance until they're running the content where these builds start to fizzle out. In short... this weapon suffers from a much too late acquisition, too much investment, and too little return.