Talk:Ronson WP Flamethrower/@comment-50.205.174.130-20150605150638/@comment-183.178.157.212-20150620043734

Bryan here. Sarcastos, I HAVE to respond to your earlier comment about the Gigavolt being useless. It's not. Gigavolts just have to be correctly augmented to be super-powerful. Seriously I really wouldn't want you to accidentally sell one that would turn out to be the best mobbing weapon ever.

One thing to note first, I am a glass cannon assault too, so our perspectives are quite similar.

When you say the "underwhelming gimmick" isn't worth it, clearly you don't realize that the "gimmick" isn't just the auto targeting/arcing ability. All arcing weapons (Trailblazer, Jupiter, Gigavolt) have underwhelming damage because when they arc to zombies, their damage is multipled. If a clean Gigavolt hits one zombie and arcs to another 3 (total of 4 zombies hit), then the damage is multiplied by 4 times.

Comparing a BLACK 10*** Gigavolt Augmented Deadly Piercing Overclocked to a Sublight with Deadly Overclocked Pinpoint (Sorry i don't know how to do calculations for Pinpoint). Assuming AR Mastery level 5

Gigavolt: Dmg x Deadly x RPS x Overclocked x (Pierce x Piercing + Mastery + Initial Hit) x Multiplying effect

630x2x5x2x8x8 = 806,400

Sublight: 2325x2x5x2x7 = 372,000

Even with Pinpoint I don't think Sublight can beat that damage.

That's why Gigavolt is far from weak. It just isn't suited for single targets because in that case it essentially loses 64x of its damage. But don't underestimate it. Try it out and you'll see.