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Azima is shit, as is Zenistar.
Sigma & Octantis is the best one because its just a good melee with good stats, and Zenith is pretty decent with the fun gimmick of having infinite punchthrough and a scanner that highlights heads through walls.
Zenith is the only one with any real use because the infinite punchthrough is actually meta for Profit Taker and will save you a lot of time in that fight. Zenistar used to be good but is trash now. Azima has always been trash. Sigma and Octantis is a decent weapon now but the Silva & Aegis Prime is just better anyways
Wow, such hate on the Azima. That is my utility sore spreader for Saryn. With ~4 multishot (294%), large magazine and lots of ammo, Viral+Rad procs, I can spam the secondary fire and just sit and let my spores eat them away. The larger the magazine, the longer the secondary fire lasts.
It's all utility, but the crazy multishot I have can surprisingly take down lvl 100 Bombards and Corrupted Heavy Gunners, even without Hornet Strike.
Too bad it is not Steel Path worthy, but it's still sweet outside of Steel Path, as long as Riven disposition holds in my favor.
The community will remember the day the zenistar got nerfed.
How did Zenistar get Nerfed?
They made the duration scale with combo counter and reduced the base duration to 10s.
The disk itself does not benefit from the combo counter, meaning it stays a sad 62.5 base damage per second.
You actually have to use the weapon to build combo for the disc to do anything, and the weapon itself has terrible stats. Alternatively you can use corrupt charge and still have a disk thats only out for a fraction of the duration of the old one.
And then you have the range that was indirectly nerfed with the change to Primed Reach.
As for why the Azima is bad:
The secondary fire is terrible. Imagine Vauban's Flechette Orbs. Now imagine them not doing nearly as much damage. Now imagine them not even aiming at enemies and just firing around wildly. Now imagine them wasting insane amounts of ammo and thus not even lasting remotely as long.
Unless you find some weird niche use for the secondary, you just end up with a mediocre automatic hitscan secondary. Just build a Rattleguts, get a Kuva Twin Stubba, buy an Aksomati Prime or craft a Twin Grakata if you want that. Those all do the same thing, but better.
The one thing it has going for it is the slightly higher riven disposition, but thats it.
Sigma & Octantis have the big benefit in having a high innate slash percentage, while Silva & Aegis Prime are pure heat, only getting some slash procs from the stance.
That allows Sigma & Octantis to do more builds that are much better against armored enemies than Silva & Aegis prime can.
Azima is niche. @Ladyvan I never modded it for anything you berated about the weapon, like damage. For it's shortcomings, like magazine and ammo, I've mitigated it through modding. You can see it from my setup, it's pure utility. It is not a damage dealer, and I already stated it's not for Steel Path. Not sure why you're still unloading additional diatribe. I'm starting to see you take messages contrary to your opinion personally, and you are unable to acknowledge the merits.
The larger the magazine, the longer the secondary fire duration.
Trick Mag provinces larger max ammo (+90%) allows me to spam my secondary fire more often.
Secondary fire is stationary where I did it, which allows me to mosey elsewhere while it still takes care of business. The setup still takes out enemies level 70 and below with ease, thanks to multishot being the main damage dealer along with Viral procs.
Ammo is not an issue, with Carrier sentinel. Plus, Squad Ammo Restore is just cheap to build not anybody at higher MR.
Energizing Shot for picking up Energy Orbs from a distance, good for my Saryn to spam her abilities, and not having to bullet jump all over, so I hold my strategic position.
Riven disposition? Yeap, I already said that too, and I'm loving what I have rolled. It's not all about the "DMG, CC, CD, MS."
That wasn't even directed at you, I was just elaborating on why Azima is pretty shit while I was already elaborating on the other weapons.
Not sure why you feel the need to be so offended again.
What would OP want more: a extremely niche weapon that even is pretty shit at the few things it does do or a solid weapon with useful gimmick?
What do you think?