Talk:Despair/@comment-24.74.4.230-20141003132743

these weapons do high damage and have very little arc to them. if they were potatoed with high rank mods they would do outstanding damage.

the problem is they are a projectile weapon and suffer the same problems as all projectile weapons. they are effective at short range, start having a bad miss rate at medium range, and are completely ineffective at long range. projectile weapons are in general as effective as using a shotgun, so if a shotgun type weapon will do more damage and most do, you see the inherent problem with using them.