Talk:Tysis/@comment-85.166.28.198-20170315223535/@comment-24557530-20170315232454

I personally prefer the Pox. Their damage is plainly a lot higher. Addionally, they feature an AoE which always inflicts a Toxin proc and can trigger addional procs as well, each second, for four seconds. So you will see a lot of procs fast (each projectle can cause up to 5 non-toxin procs, if modded correcly). Three 60% status mods will set you at 98% proc chance for each projectile.

The Tysis deals less damage (note that head shots are a lot easier due to pinpoint accuracy and no gravity on bolts), but has three advantages you might want to exploit. Firstly, its ammo pool is much larger, so you will not run out of ammo as quickly. However, this is somewhat offset by the lower basedamage and severely lower number of procs per projectle (up to 1 vs up to 5). Especially armor stipping (which the Tysis was initially designed for with its corrosive basedamage and 50% base proc chance) will chew through a lot more ammo and will take a lot longer. Next, you only need two 60% mods to set each projectle at 100% status chance, opening the builds up a little. Lastly, it is one of the few weapons were you can build for Corrosive and Gas or Corrosive AND Radiation AND Viral at the same time.