Talk:Latron Prime/@comment-50.113.40.245-20140525234745/@comment-50.113.40.245-20140530064454

Ehh, I can't really blame you, crit and status are things that they stealth-nerf/stealth-buff from patch to patch sometimes. For instance, the Synapse used to be able to "double-crit" 25% of the time with only point strike, multiplying its damage again by the crit multiplies 25% of the time. This was back when it actually worked like a continuous weapon, and the numbers looked really strange, and the Synapse used to check for status 50+ times per second because of how continuous weapons worked.

At that time, Synapse hands down destroyed Soma at higher difficulties, due to slightly better ammo efficiency, and the capability to proc viral 10+ times per second on average (back when viral still stacked instantly... for like two weeks). They had just adjusted continuous weapons to finally work with fire-rate modifying mods, so pretty much all the continuous weapons got a max-possible-dps buff in a big way :D. Synapse did juuuust barely more dps than Soma, while doing procs monstrously fast, and having much less max range, as befit a weapon as much more difficult to acquire.

Suddenly: "We're making the numbers on the continuous weapons easier to understand by making them tally only once per second" -DE.  (many screams of "BULLSHIT EXCUSE!" were heard from knowledgeable Synapse users that day)  They basically made it so it didn't even do damage until either you let off the trigger, or a full second had passed, it could only check for status once per second making it vastly weaker than even Soma for status procs, and at the same time, they removed its ability to double crit.

Instantly, Synapse, despite requiring many, many, many times the resources, credits, and time to acquire -and even a higher mastery rank- than the Soma, was instantly weaker than the Soma again in virtually every possible way (still pretty much is TBH). They basically stealth nerfed the living daylights out of it along three different axis.

For my part, I apologize for the massive sarcasm at the end of my post, it wasn't really called for. I actually haven't used my Latron Prime (acquiring MR... yay MR15!) at all really since about a month or two ago, and it's entirely possible that they have changed many things about the details of crit and status since then. I'd have to test again to find out if this still holds :3.