Higasa

My issue is that it's just the Battacor, but arguably cooler. I love the parasol design, but i can't shake that it's just a different version of an existing weapon. The Battacor is auto burst, which i prefer, and every 3 kills you can fire a laser. The Higasa is a standard 5 round burst fire, which after getting kills or absorbing damage you can fire a laser. The reasons i'd pick it over the Battacor is because of it's 450% serration mod and the awesome shield. But i have a riven for the Battacor too which makes me consider it instead.

Kills give a larger pip than enemy bullets. Flamethrowers so far are the only thing that goes through. Far higher block angle than all/most Melee blocking.

Sorry those three are auto rifles. for some reason I thought Trumna was a shotgun. note: The burst fire of the Higasa does somewhat make up for the slow firerate. You get 3 shots at once with a 90 magazine.

The higasa is a five round burst

The reason I mention those specific weapons is because Quellor and Stahlta are the same weapon family as Higasa. They're called "charge rifles" and while trumna isn't technically one, it's basically the same thing, if not closer to Higasa's function. Higasa is the first burst rifle in the "charge rifle" family style. They all have a "grenade launcher/big damage laser" style alt fire. Ambassador and Fulmin are *not* charge rifles because they change firing mode, they do not "charge up" an alternate fire at the cost of magazine. And yes you're exactly right that Quellor has slightly lower base damage, and worse crit stats. That's exactly my point. Despite that, Quellors primary fire STILL cleans up Higasa because it has 4 innate ipse and the status chance of 38% to actually use it, as well as .5m of innate punch through. The alt fire being amazing just furthers Quellors status over higasa. Tenora and tenora prime are in the same boat. They boast stats that are just an edge above higasa's (roughly 4-8% differences iirc), but they outclass it heavily in performance.

My main point is: Higasa Serration buffing of the gimmick (one stats effect on a weapon with hardly any status chance is not doing anything) or it needs to bump the base status stats of the weapon up a smidgen, in order to fulfill the design intention of "Making Higasa appeal to veterans on the steal path". Doubly so when the prime drops and pablo already stated the stats would reflect the mod or vise versa. This prevents it from becoming too powerful for starchart (even though you can find much better weapons in the dojo), while making the mod and weapon comfier for vets.

Man, we're all still talking about the damage of the "Big Shield Gun", huh?

It does enough, which is all you can really ask for a gun in Warframe.

If it can kill Steel Path, it's good enough.

Also, did anybody notice that the shield can block an oddly high amount of incoming fire?

Like, I genuinely thought it wouldn't do as well-- but it's really good at blocking stuff like Bombard Rockets.

Neat!

"Higasa is the first burst rifle in the "charge rifle" family style."

Battacor. You're forgetting one of my favorite guns.

Must be nice to know so little about the gaming industry, little boy. Just look up how many patents Nintendo truly has and compare that to the amount lawsuits they have, maybe you'll be able to do the math.

Anyone who unironically belittles someone with "Lil Boy" or "Lil Bro" doesn't know shit. They're trademark terminally online terms that no one will take you seriously for using as an insult. It's also just fucking weird...

Hey, I was making a joke on how litigious the big 'Tendo can get. No need to start arguments about internet vocabulary. This isn't Twitter.

Y'all are done.

Nin recently filed a patent for arguing itself.