I obtained a Corona through battle rewards chests, gold chests, and a bit of $. With that I have most of the medium weapons and thought it would be interesting to compare them using a M1/L12 Spectre as a target at varying distances. All weapons tested were M1/L3 except for the Scourge which was M1/L5. I normalized the damage for the Scourge to M1/L3 so things would be as apples-to-apples as possible.The graph and table below show how long it took to destroy the Spectre with a single medium weapon. There are lots of caveats here with things like root chances, effects against shielded (energy and/or physcial), target lock for the Scourge but not for the others, differing sizes of hit boxes on bots, etc. not being accounted for.Above 500 meters, Pulsar is the best weapon for dealing damage to an unshielded, stationary target. Corona's damage follows a linear profile with distance while Pulsar is more or less flat from 400 meters on down. From 150 meters on down Corona is better than Pulsar but Pulsar wins above that distance. Pulsar is better than Storm at >200 meters or so.

Would be interesting to see a punisher and ion in the mix. Sorry to be nitpicky. The pulsar is not surprising to me with aim working against you at max distances, but the corona is real interesting at 400m.... nearly a 1/3 more accurate than the storm. What would be even scarier is that a gust may out perform a storm at 400m+.

Yup. Shorter times for a given distance are better. It does miss important things like targets moving, etc.It also gives an idea on whether a Corona (really need to get close) or a Pulsar is better suited for your needs. I did this exercise to help select weapons for my Mender. Playing solo, do I want a root option, and, if so, how often do I end up going into close combat it? Still trying to make up my mind. Given how long it takes to upgrade new weapons I may just stick with old economy Gust/Taran combo.

very interesting. Thanks for doing this. It does seem to confirm that the Scourge is one of those extremely powerful medium weapons. This is no surprise as they are everywhere on the battlefield. The storm holds up well up to 150M and then becomes ineffective rather quickly. Since the storm is so easy to fabricate and level it's tempting to get a few but in today's environment it's rather difficult to close to that range.

Thanks, I really appreciate your effort. As it happens I have bulg with 2 scourges and one punisher T (weird setup, I know, but I didn't get third scourge before new economy). Now I'm considering replacing PunisherT with pulsar, so your work is a lot of help.