Talk:Aklato/@comment-74.96.199.63-20170211043847

I cannot begin to express how much the Aklato dissapoint. They are, in almost every respect, worse than the regular Lato, and here's why:

1) Lethal Torrent exists

Since semi-auto fire rate is internally hardcapped at 10, using Lethal Torrent on either limits the fire rate to that value. This means the gain is higher on the regular Lato, and one of the advantages of the dual version--that is, more fire rate, so more DPS--is completely negated by being limited to that hardcap.

This is an issue on most Akimbo secondaries, but it's compounded by:

2) *More than doubled* reload time

Just... why? While the effective magazine size is twofold, the reload time hikes up from 1.0 to 2.4. This constitutes less effective sustained damage than the singular variant, in addition to other secondary downsides, like reduced accuracy.

For comparison:

Vasto 1.0, Akvasto 1.8

Magnus 2.0, Akmagnus 3.0

Bolto 1.3, Akbolto 2.6

Lex 2.35, Aklex 3.0

The Bolto-Akbolto should be the limit on how much akimbo variants increase reload duration, that is, double that of the single variant. The Aklato taking 2.4 times as much to reload is a clear outlier.

Besides, the gain in burst damage is so neglible over a weapon which has very little time spent reloading in the first place, and it's possible that it has less with the last point:

4) Worse crit

There is pretty much no justification in terms of balancing for making the crit of the dual-wield version worse. The only edge it has over its singular version (with the above in mind) is a higher ratio of slash damage, but it can hardly gain the benefits of that damage type what few slash procs that land even less likely to be overlapping with crits--and weaker crits, at that.

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tl,dr: DE, please give these weapons another pass. Reduce the reload time to 2.0 or less, keep the crit chance equal for both versions, and you arguably have something that is generally better against Infested in use case with slightly better burst and identical sustained damage, provided you're close enough to properly land shots.