Talk:Soma/@comment-7645613-20131217024959

doing some soma/grakata testing. As you can see, when each weapon has generally the same damage and elemental mods, and when you buff the grakata with critical delay and hammer shot, they are very similar. If you have a max rank critical delay it will be even higher of course, but it's not really required. The grakata beats the soma in the physical damages, and only trails a bit from the crits, even though there is a 1.0x difference in critical damage between them.

When adding Split chamber and a rank 7 Heavy Caliber (+120% damage) the following occurs:

Soma


 * 76 physical damage (501.6 on crit)


 * 68.4 heat damage (451.44 on crit)

Grakata


 * 84 physical damage (470.4 on crit)


 * 75.6 heat damage (423.36 on crit)

As you can see, there is only a small difference between these weapons with mods now. The difference in damage is more noticeably fully modded however. You must also forma the Soma once for this, but the grakata needs to be formad at least 3 times to fit these mods. The grakata however will proc 4 times more often then the soma.