Originally Posted by
BiTzSam
Neither of the exotic guns base stats are OP. The Staff is a worse version of P2Ks but make up for it by having the hotkey abilities. The laser mode on the darkmatter cannon isn't op at all, it just looks scary because there isn't any other gun like it. Just think of the laser as someone spamming a ion minigun/flamethrower with no spread. You don't instantly die just from touching the laser, you actually take less damage than those 2 guns as the laser only does 3 damage per 0.1 seconds, compared to the ion mini/flame which are 4 damage per 0.1 seconds.
The only difference is the darkmatter cannon has no bullet travel time, but at the cost of limited range, not being able to change firing directions, a 1 second delay before firing, and limited ammo before needing to recharge which takes longer to fully recharge than just reloading with the flamethrower/ ionmini.