Talk:Phage/@comment-25228894-20161031191010/@comment-2605:6000:6DC0:D000:B0F6:E879:BB60:131C-20171129175931

continuous weapon mechanics mean that the listed status chance is divided by the number of beams and then further by four.

This is because continuous weapons do four ticks of damage per second regardless of equipped mods.

So, basically when you have "100%" status/second listed for the Phage, you actually have 25% status chance per damage tick, which is nowhere near enough to do the 100% status shotgun trick.