Talk:Synapse/@comment-24.130.122.188-20131213211027

"Best weapon in the game in pure DPS"

Think the penta might have it beat:

Penta: 350 base, 1 round per second, not counting hitting someone with the actual grenade.

Synapse is 700 DPS with 3 crit mods (Point strike, hammershot, vital sense) (125base *5.6 crit). Which only leaves 5 other slots.

Penta gets 8, 4 for each elemental, 1 for wildfire, 1 for serration, 1 for split chamber, 1 for heavy caliber.

Does 3 more elemental mods make up for  the double damage after crit? I haven't mathed it out yet, but I think it's slightly ahead for the penta (90/90/60% for 3 elemental mods).

Which is really close for single target DPS, but this is Warframe, a game where you shoot endless streams of clumped mobs, so penta auto-wins if you factor in AoE (unless you put metal augur on synapse, which further drops your single-target DPS).

Course a penta with those mods will one shot you, but that doesn't really factor in for "pure DPS".