Talk:Galatine Prime/@comment-180.181.77.205-20161014081015/@comment-14.3.43.131-20161111172445

Maiming Strike Galatine Prime is not "better" than Maiming Strike Atterax. It indeed has higher per hit damage, but that's it. Atterax has dramatically higher range and a considerably faster spin attack.

The damage per hit difference is greatly compensated by a better spin animation on Atterax. Maiming Stike Galatine Prime still might have higher DPS against a singular enemy, however, in any realistic game scenario barring overstayed Endless, Atterax will have massively higher total AoE damage output.

Not to mention, its realistic plain damage fall-off point is similar to the one of Galatine Prime and lies around armored enemy level 200~250

So, technically speaking - Atterax is indeed not on  the same tier as Galatine Prime. It's a weapon of a higher tier. It's better than Galatine Prime pretty much always. The same goes for Orthos Prime.

Another approach to the situation, however, is understanding that Maiming Strike Galatine is a garbage weapon. Spin attack is not something Galatine excels at. Given naturally high damage stats, access to one of the best DPS stances in the game and a good status chance, it has insane potential when given proper synergy. For instance, barring Covert Lethality daggers, I doubt there's a better weapon for soloing overstayed Void Survival than Galatine Prime.