Talk:Exergis/@comment-206.57.248.110-20190204140423/@comment-145.107.189.68-20190206103813

I wouldn't call it a direct upgrade. The Exergis can operate at longer ranges thanks to its ridiculous falloff distances and tight spread, and has innate punchthrough on top of that. It also only requires 3 60% status mods. Meanwhile, the Tigris Prime has to waste a 4th slot on a 60% (which means it has to cope with blast, magnetic or radiation depending on the build you are using, as well as status proc bias being reduced for your desired proc) and can only utilize punchthrough if you sacrifice a damage mod. The Exergis can instead just freely equip mods like Primed Charged Shell and Chilling Reload while still being better at smashing crowds than the Tigris.

tl;dr Exergis is much more flexible than the Tigris Prime, there is more to the stats than just the numbers, you also have to take differences in modding into consideration.