Talk:Orthos Prime/@comment-54.240.196.185-20130930234601/@comment-129.21.130.12-20131002035805

Charge attacks are where the dps is at because they ignore armor. So if you just go by the charge attack dps, the Orthos Prime has the highest dps of all melee weapons hitting 400 BASE dps which is higher than any other armor ignore weapon in the game(melee or ranged), period. That's also just single target, the total damage dealt increases logarithmically as you hit more targets with your strikes. It's really simple math, galatine: 400/1.4 = 286(rounded up); Orthos Prime: 200/.5 = 400.

Also note that charge attack animations can be interrupted and you will lose dps if your charge is interrupted. Most heavy melee weapons have 2 portions to their animations, an interruptable portion and a swinging(i.e not interruptable) portion. Since the Orthos Prime has such a low charge speed, it is also more reliable to finish it's animation and avoid getting stunned for a loss in dps. I'm not actually sure how much of the Galatine's animation is interruptable to be perfectly honest, but it's probably not enough to make up for the net dps advantage the Orthos Prime has.