Talk:Deth Machine Rifle/@comment-79.81.232.127-20131001224501/@comment-92.47.190.160-20131004113403

Consider it a weaker version of Gorgon. It has no crit, so it will benefit greatly just from base damage buff, firerate increase and elemental mods.

Elemental mods - even if certain mob takes reduced damage from certain element, say 50% damage from fire, it still takes 100% base damage and the remaining 50% from fire.

Potato the rifle. Use split chamber, serration: If you like it, invest formas to polarise it, to use maximised mod cards.

Split chamber (chance to fire 2 bullets instead of one, great on any rifle).

Serration (increases the base damage, so increases all the elemental damage from ele mods as well).

Shred (Both the firerate increase and the fact that bullets can go through different obstacles (doors/crates etc.) benefits the cube greatly, compensating for somewhat stupid targeting AI).

Speed trigger (more firerate increase)

Piercing hit (works well on all targets + considered a separate element. Yay for more added damage!)

Cryo rounds (anti-shield + slow works good to cc incoming mob clusters, Works even better with bullet pen from Shred)

Hellfire (fire damage bonus, good vs infested runners)

Stormbringer (electro damage, good vs corpus)

If yoy have no shred mod, can replace it with wildfire (more fire damage).