Understand Synapse
Useful when…
- Use its hitscan attack without accounting for projectile travel.
- Consider its innate Corrosive damage and listed critical profile when selecting a rifle.
Attack and damage
The Normal Attack is a held-trigger hitscan attack listed at 12 shots per second. Each shot lists 20 Corrosive damage, 39% critical chance, a 2.7x critical multiplier, and 13% status chance. Its listed accuracy is 100. The supplied details list no other damage type or alternate attack mode.
Magazine and reload
The magazine holds 70 rounds and the listed reload time is 1.5 seconds. Its held trigger and hitscan attack support keeping aim on a target without leading for projectile travel. Synapse requires mastery 11 and has a rank cap of 30.
Related weapons
Coda Synapse is described as having increased magazine size, beam length, status chance, punch through, and damage; the comparison does not give amounts for those increases. Scourge is a speargun with corrosive plasma projectiles and a throwable field. Quartakk is described as firing four simultaneous shots. Their descriptions establish different weapon mechanics, rather than like-for-like hitscan attacks.
Limitations and tradeoffs
- The magazine holds 70 rounds.
- The listed status chance is 13%.
- The supplied attack data lists Corrosive damage only.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Assuming Corrosive damage guarantees a status effect on every hit.
- Leading targets as if the attack were a projectile.
- Treating Coda Synapse's qualitative increases as known numeric values.