Talk:Despair/@comment-118.42.103.117-20130527173826/@comment-93.36.106.54-20130527175422

i wouldnt say better, and here's why:

akbolto are armor IGNORE, which means they just deal their thing disregarding what the bolt hits, no modifier impied on target side. they are semi-auto so you have to click fast, roll the mousewheel or use a filty macro (shame on you for that)

despair is armor PIERCING, which means its damage is applied as that from AP mod and the final damage dealt is based on single mob's modifier to AP damage, so light infested take -50% and medium grineer take +50%. on the plus side they are full-auto so the benefit from gunslinger (+fire rate) is much more noticable. on top of that, they have a base damage which is 220% that of akbolto (55/25=2.2), which help a lot in DPS races like killing a bunch of ancients coming to you

TLDR: akbolto is more consistet among all targets, despair is higher DPS on highly-armored targets but may suffer against light infested if not modded with fire mod

it should also pointed out that if in the future DE changes something on AP damage modifiers on mobs, akbolto damage won't change at all, while despair will be dependent on the new modifiers, possibly (lets hope not) negatively