Talk:Hard Thorn/@comment-87.217.3.230-20141223132839/@comment-98.169.8.151-20141227024417

Not really. With the Tempest, you can afford to put deadly, overclocked, and piercing all at the same time due to large clip size. On top of that, shotgun mastery level 5 gives a nice 20% dps boost, which includes any damage bonuses from gear/deadly augment. However, if you're talking about unaugmented guns, then the Hard Thorn would win because of pierce.