Talk:Stradavar/@comment-67.11.163.74-20160724214509

It got an all-around buff and damage redistribution recently, but more to the semi-auto fire mode than to the auto. Some people would argue that the auto fire mode doing more impact damage now is an overall slight nerf for the auto mode though. The semi-auto got a higher piercing damage ratio.

Compared to the Soma (regular) with full crit builds, the Stradavar in auto mode can output 59-89% ( as much burst damage, depending on how much the Soma has wound up to its higher fire rate.  The Soma has 100 rounds in a magazine as compared to the Stradavar's 65, but the Stradavar also reloads in 2 seconds compared to 3 for the Soma.  Soma will have higher burst, but will burn through its ammo in a virtually identical amount of time at full windup, and needs to reload for a full second longer.  Soma also has better status chance overall.  Your choice, more uptime (and probably less recoil unles my instincts deceive me) with the Stradavar, but slightly lower efficiency and significantly lower burst damage.  Soma also has more slash damage and even less puncture than the stradavar given this build, meaning it will be better against infested, but not as effective versus grineer.

Compared to the advanced Latrons (Prime/Wraith), the Stradavar in semi-auto mode can output, again, less burst DPS, at only ~70% of the Latron Prime's output, or ~60% of the Latron Wraith's (the advanced Latrons do quite a bit more burst than the Soma, and even the Latron Prime beats the Soma Prime for burst by a bit) but it has 65 rounds a mag and a 2.0 reload to the Latrons' 15 rounds and 2.4 reload, meaning that is has MUCH higher uptime at ~77% compared to the LatP's ~44% and the LatW's even lower ~38%. This ends up with it having ~123% of the LatP's sustained damage, and ~121% of the LatW's.

So, Soma has ~54-56% uptime at full auto, spray, and SomP has ~70-71% while Stradavar has ~63%. This means that the Stradavar in auto does ~68% of the sustained damage of a Soma, and ~44% of that of a SomP. Stradavar's Semi at full fire rate however falls almost squarely between the Soma and SomP for sustained damage, while doing about 122% of the sustained damage of an advanced Latron.

I'll probably use it (the Stradavar) when I don't use my Dex Sybaris, which beats all of the above for burst, while losing only to the Soma Prime for sustained, at ~85% of its sustained damage while boasting 133-199% of its burst damage depending on windup.