Talk:Tiberon Prime/@comment-2001:16B8:2A37:6600:FD8E:E4A7:F961:3C63-20180321160016/@comment-2605:6000:6DC0:D000:8C09:A6F5:73AE:6B1B-20180322163947

OP is rhetorically correct (if not dialectically), including in calling you guys white knights, though he didn't articulate it particularly well.

No one cares that you can use naramon polarity mods. Obviously this is a hybrid crit/status weapon, so anyone who uses naramon elemental mods (and has dual status mods) is an idiot.

All of the high-energy mods for primary weapons are Madurai, with the sole exceptions of the primed cold mod (Vazarin) and rivens -- which can be any polarity.

Now, as to the (optimal) uses of naramon mods on a hybrid primary, since we've excluded flat elemental mods (which you shouldn't be using if you have dual status mods of that type) we've got Vile Acceleration, Vigilante Armaments, the suppression mod (for if you're playing Ivara), ammo mutation (probably not on this weapon, but I'll leave it as a QoL option).

I can understand people wanting to use Vile Acceleration on this weapon. I can also understand use of Vigilante armaments. Both of these mod choices are reasonable/optimal if you don't have a Riven. However, both mods are 9 energy cost, so it's not especially helpful to slot them into their polarity, as 4 energy saved isn't much compared to the 7-9 you'd save for Serration/Heavy Caliber/Split Chamber/Riven.  Thus naramon polarities are sub-optimal compared to other polarities (Madurai), the first two (at least) of which which always consume more energy on a primary.

As for Ivara players... 5 energy cost for that silencer mod. 2 energy saved. You would never, ever intentionally forma a weapon intentionally to have a naramon to slot a silencer mod in. Every single other (maxed, non-damaged) primary mod is higher energy cost, and thus higher priority.

Ammo mutation is a QoL choice. I won't fault it, but as with Vile Acceleration and Vigilante Armaments... it's a 9 energy mod.

So, OP is rhetorically correct -- no player who knows what he's doing would choose naramon for the first two polarities on a primary weapon, ever. He is, however, dialctically incorrect. DE does know what they're doing... they're putting less-worthwhile polarities on a new weapon so that players will have higher incentive to (plat purchase) forma to put in other polarities and/or possibly forma one of them out (for instance if said player has a non-naramon polarity riven mod).

OT:  While I am not a burst-weapon hater (I was one of the vanishingly few to support the original sybaris as being a mathematically worthwhile intermediary weapon between somas and advanced latrons), I see that the mathematically-illiterate burst-idiots are still around, editing pages to say that burst weapons are linearly less efficient. This is mathematically false, and absurdly so. Burst weapons are NOT linearly less efficient, but rather logarithmically less efficient, as I've noted before.