Talk:Phage/@comment-10805430-20140409080349

I dont think the crit chance is high enough to warrent a crit build on it, but the status chance is pretty amazing so shell shock and toxic barrage work really well with this. I don't really use it as a "gun". Instead I'd suggest to anyone wanting to try it out to use it like you would a flame thrower. Just zoom in some to get the beams where you want it and "spray" everything in front of you.

The reason I say think of it as a flame thrower is it doesn't use a bullet every time you press the trigger. It seems damage ticks off a few times for every bullet spent, so its ammo feels more like a big fuel tank instead of clips. I'm sort of curious if raising or lowering the fire rate has much an effect on it in that regards. I wonder if I lower the fire rate, does the damage still tick as fast or as often for every bullet spent? If so, you could use tainted shell to make it even more ammo effecient. If not, and it slows the ticks per second then you could use Shotgun spazz to dish out tons of damage quickly and shotgun ammo mutation to help make up the difference.