Talk:Artax/@comment-41.237.160.111-20190531144235/@comment-91.184.213.180-20190609051147

Because it's a high fire rate beam weapon. This means that despite it's low base status chance it can still reliably apply other status effects on top of cold, like blast or viral for example. Modded for even more fire rate and a bit of multishot, plus status chance, this combination basically guerantees those extra status procs in a very very short amount of time. It's not here to do damage, so all extra damage mods can be ignored, this leaves a LOT of room for fire rate and status mods.