Talk:Sicarus Prime/@comment-5030262-20161221003505/@comment-67.11.163.74-20161224065349

It was very nearly as bad as the AkLato before the buff. Darth, you and Luca are positively delusional when it comes to certain weapons, I'm just being honest here.

Now, it's hard to judge without using, since "burst rate" and fire rate for burst weapons are horribly misleading (you will never, ever in a million years even with infinite frames per second fire off five burst per second with this unmodded, try three and a fraction, max). Really, the wiki should list burst rate in rounds per second per burst, AKA the speed at which the weapon fires rounds while bursting, and then list the "fire rate" as the rate at which the weapon can fire another burst after finishing one, especially now that fire rate mods affect both.

Now, I'd say this gun is probably on par with the AkMagnus, though considerably less ammo efficient, it will have an only slightly lower proc rate (due to lower magazine and reload speed on AkMagnus) and probably a slightly higher sustained DPS output, although a slightly lower burst DPS output.

Where this weapon falls behind is the horrendous kick, unless they significantly improved that with the buff. Increased accuracy means nothing if the recoil is so strong that even skillfully learned muscle-memory correction leaves something to be desired.

On top of that, it's still less ammo efficient than the AkMagnus, as well as less accurate (let's be honest, the AkMagnus is pinpoint accurate on every shot, where this deals with very significant recoil, and accuracy rating are still incorrect by and large when comparing different weapons), and logarithmically less efficient due to being a burst fire weapon.

Okay, so, all told, the aggregate fire rate (sustained, incorporating reload times) of this is only about 12% lower than that of the AkStiletto Prime, while the damage is about 11% higher and the crit chance is 5% higher as well, overall this will actually put out slightly higher burst and sustained DPS than the AkStiletto Prime, but due to the AkStiletto Prime's triple status chance by comparison, the AkStiletto P. will always win in dispatching high level Grineer with Corrosive proc stacking. Debatably, this is more ammo efficient than the AkStiletto P. if you don't NEED to stack corrosive, and you are fighting very high level enemies.

By comparison to the AkMagnus, this has lower burst, but considerably higher sustained DPS, no surprise there. It will also have lower rates of both sustained and burst procs. Due to the accuracy of the AkMagnus over this (because of recoil during bursts), you can expect the AkMagnus to be incomparably better at long-mid range, although this will certainly be easier to use in the near-point-blank range.