Talk:HIKS S300/@comment-72.70.77.251-20141123231912/@comment-24659969-20141123234842

From most obvious to more calculation stuff

Damage type: HKS300 Thermal means you will have trouble vs certain bosses ie: wicker due to its 100% resist means HKS deals 0 damage, also boss egg in zombie pods. While hornet does physical damage means you will deal stable damage and have no fear at all since no boss have 100% physical resistance.

Rarity: you can find HKS after level 10 / red on level 40+. For hornet you will find it above level 40 (ultra rare on 30) / red above level 85 (ultra rare drop on lv 70) due to this it is logical hornet would be more powerful since it is a more late gun.

DPS and stats: Hornet is better, augmented or not. This is since HKS requires 3 augments slots to be on par with even only 2 augment slots hornet. If the hornet is put on same augment level, it will be a really big gap on terms of DPS. The only thing in stats which HKS better is only ammo cost efficiency. Hornet ammo cost is 50% more expensive in total cost.

HKS300 red max dps is 40000/sec coming from deadly, tenacious, and overclock. Hornet red max dps is 44400/sec using deadly and overclock only. If the third slot is used for reload speed / pinpoint and you also used it to replace tenacious on HKS300, there is a really big hole there.