How does the tenora beat out the soma prime?

[Criticalfire]

Looking to invest forma (after i spend 5 years building all of them of course) into this gun but is it worth it and i have heard it beats out soma prime from various reddit posts but they dont offer concrete numbers. Help or opinions?

[Mojack]

opinions are like belly buttons, I hear; everybody has one.
I heard, it does NOT beat the Soma P. so well...
I guess, best to form(a) your own opinion

[Criticalfire]

Originally posted by Mojack:

opinions are like belly buttons, I hear; everybody has one.
I heard, it does NOT beat the Soma P. so well...
I guess, best to form(a) your own opinion

Trying to and i dont see the difference and i know i tend to miss things so was wondering if people can help me. Warframe builder doesnt have the updated builds yet so i cant compare.

[KIREEK]

If you have both, try them both and then form your own opinion
It really depends on what you want them to do, how long you want them to fire, how long you want the reloads to be, if you have use for the charge mechanic, if you want more or less firerate.
In fact, you can have them both for 2 completely different things and then use both weapons because one is good at something you need and the other is good at something else.

[Belier13]

The tenora has better base damage stats but worse critical ratio, critical damage ratio, fire rate, and way worse accuracy (use heavy caliber and it becomes comedy gold).

So I think the DPS may be roughly the same, now the teno has a cool secondy shot which is quite a strong burst, something that soma lacks. Imo not really worth it.

[Sceles]

Soma P is better stat-wise so unless Tenora's fire rate goes above its tooltip value or something it shouldn't beat Soma P. Things are of course different when you compare them with rivens because Soma P's disposition is as low as it can get. Tenora + riven should beat Soma P + riven easily.

[Astherisk]

Tenora is just as good as soma prime and has a better riven disposition.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

All I'll say is Tenora's alt fire is very potent. Left out Heavy Caliber and used Argon Scope + Bladed Rounds on my build, and I've seen red crits up to around 100k damage on occasion after both of those proc.

[Astherisk]

Originally posted by Totally Innocent Chatbot:

All I'll say is Tenora's alt fire is very potent. Left out Heavy Caliber and used Argon Scope + Bladed Rounds on my build, and I've seen red crits up to around 100k damage on occasion after both of those proc.

No it's not, try using that against lvl 120 bombards or any enemy with armor

[Konachibi]

The Tenora beats the Soma Prime in a few ways. As others have said, it's alt-fire is very strong, heavy caliber can actually be used on it as it has very little effect on the alt-fire, and the weapon gains accuracy as it shoots, so at full spool it's almost 100% accurate even with heavy caliber. It has higher base damage, so each bullet hits harder, has the same crit multiplier, albeit with a small loss in crit chance (not a huge deal tbh) and it has a higher status chance allowing corrosive builds to strip armour more reliably than a Soma Prime can, and finally it also has a faster reload time. It outperforms the Soma Prime in almost every category apart from 3 things. A smaller clip, a slightly lower firing rate and no built-in polarities, but outside of those 3 things, Tenora is a superior weapon.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

Originally posted by Astherisk:

Originally posted by Totally Innocent Chatbot:

All I'll say is Tenora's alt fire is very potent. Left out Heavy Caliber and used Argon Scope + Bladed Rounds on my build, and I've seen red crits up to around 100k damage on occasion after both of those proc.

No it's not, try using that against lvl 120 bombards or any enemy with armor

You say that as though you expect Soma Prime to be significantly better against the same foes. It's not. After some Simulacrum testing against the very enemy you just mentioned, the two weapons performed quite comparably, with the Soma perhaps gaining a slight edge just due to its sheer fire rate.

[Astherisk]

Originally posted by Totally Innocent Chatbot:

Originally posted by Astherisk:

No it's not, try using that against lvl 120 bombards or any enemy with armor

You say that as though you expect Soma Prime to be significantly better against the same foes. It's not. After some Simulacrum testing against the very enemy you just mentioned, the two weapons performed quite comparably, with the Soma perhaps gaining a slight edge just due to its sheer fire rate.

I compared my tenora build to my soma build and they both performed similar, same dps

I'm talking about the alt fire, not the main fire of tenora. Alt fire does no armor stripping

[Konachibi]

Originally posted by Astherisk:

I'm talking about the alt fire, not the main fire of tenora. Alt fire does no armor stripping

The alt-fire can, but it has a lower status chance than normal fire, so it's less likely to occur.

[Astherisk]

Originally posted by Konachibi:

Originally posted by Astherisk:

I'm talking about the alt fire, not the main fire of tenora. Alt fire does no armor stripping

The alt-fire can, but it has a lower status chance than normal fire, so it's less likely to occur.

And it has alot less firerate.. doesn't look like armor stripping to me

[Konachibi]

Originally posted by Astherisk:

And it has alot less firerate.. doesn't look like armor stripping to me

Well of course, it's a charged single-fire shot, you don't bank on something like that being a reliable corrosive armour-stripping firing mode, that's what standard firing mode is for. Secondary fire is for getting high damage crit-hits.

[Astherisk]

Originally posted by Konachibi:

Originally posted by Astherisk:

And it has alot less firerate.. doesn't look like armor stripping to me

Well of course, it's a charged single-fire shot, you don't bank on something like that being a reliable corrosive armour-stripping firing mode, that's what standard firing mode is for. Secondary fire is for getting high damage crit-hits.

But it's not gonna be high damage if you can't strip armor -.-