Talk:Flux Rifle/@comment-73.176.45.33-20140226224559

The Flux is a slow starter primarily because the initial damage is low AND you need Shred or Metal Auger to be effective. That takes up a lot of points early on where you might initially want to just increase the damage instead. But once you have added some polarities to fit maxed Serration, Split Chamber, and have enough room for Shred, you can put a full Heavy Caliber (what a joy that is to level up; LOL) in there with minimal penalty to accuracy. It causes the beam to shake around a bit but is still easy to nail your target. If you can aim the Synapse, you can certainly aim the Flux with full Heavy Caliber. It's not like this is a sniper rifle, anways; you're already going to be midrange to close when you use it, so that's really not a significant issue.

Once you get to the point that you can get Heavy Caliber, Shred, and elemental mods squeezed in there, you're really going to start to wallop Grineer and especially Infested. And add Malignant Force and Hammer Shot to that, and you'll be doing a ton of status effects. Just adding those two mods boosts your proc chance to 50% in a beam weapon. It's a slow starter but devastating finisher after you get the right mods squeezed in there.

Use the Synapse for Corpus. The damage penalty for slash isn't too bad against Grineer, but starts to become a problem against high level Corpus. The Synapse isn't quite as adept against Infested as it is against the other factions, so you have two great beam weapons in the Flux and Synapse you can use depending on your enemy.