Talk:Gaze/@comment-39053279-20190607042232/@comment-100.11.2.161-20190620163600

On warframe builder, my Gaze (with a +damage, +crit chance, +fire damage riven) deals 111,031 burst dps, 63119 sustained dps.

Building the Atomos with the same mods, including the riven (but scaled down from 1 to .8 due to the Atomos' lower disposition), I get a burst dps of only 41,400, and a sustained dps of 30,314.

And this is using the gibber grip for the Gaze, which is the lowest damage, but it gives a range of 40m, almost 3x the Atomos' 15m.

And while the Atomos is doing corrosive and fire damage, the Gaze is doing corrosive, fire, and radiation damage, which makes it effective against both armor types.

The gaze also has innate punchthrough, so it can shoot through doors, catwalks, and other thin cover.

The Atomos was my go-to weapon for several months when I was new to Warframe, and at lower levels, it's clear-speed is hard to beat due to it's superior chaining. But at higher levels crit stats are very important for secondaries, due to how powerful primed pistol gambit and primed target cracker are (even with low crit stats on the atomos, these two mods were best in slot). With such low crit stats, the atomos plateaus really early. And its status chance isn't nearly high enough to make up for it. Even built for max crit (39% vs 15%) and min status, the Gaze only has slightly lower status than the Atomos (17% vs 21%).