Talk:Atomos/@comment-122.111.9.108-20150517091051/@comment-25938077-20150518105217

Heat over Electricity is an upgrade; feeds the Viral/Heat quite well. Also, the ammo efficiency on this thing is quite good and of course, it being a sidearm opens up different weapon combinations. Atomos does require Ruinous Extension while Amprex does fine without Sinister Reach but otherwise the stats are comparable so Atomos isn't horribly far behind on the surface and it has some advantages (Pistol Mods really help it catch up). Torid, Quanta (Vandal), Boltor Prime, Tonkor, Vectis, Dread, there are plenty of primaries that would be nice to mix with a mass-clearing weapon like Amprex but that's not normally possible; with Atomos, it suddenly is.