monoblade vs plasmasword

[Cormac]

monosword has 13,33 dps at 84% armor pen.
if not attacking with the handle, 28 damahe at 2 second delay with 90% pen.

plasmasword has 7,49 dps at 28% armor pen.
if not attacking with the handle, 20 damage at 2,6 second delay with 30% pen.

asuming that 100% of the damage of the plasmasword is heat damage (the discription would let me think otherwise):

a basic marine body armor has:
106% sharp armor
54% heat armor

reducing both by the best case armorpen of the weapons:
16% sharp armor
24% heat armor.


the monosword does not only attack faster and does more damage in itself, but the armor pen vs the armor of marine armor makes it even more powerfull than the plasma sword.


vs recon armor:
2% sharp armor and 20% heat armor left

vs cataphract armor:
30% sharp armor and 30% heat armor left

even against a cataphract, the armor pen is only equel to eachother, with the less base damage and slower attack speed, the plasma sword is still the weaker weapon.

if i add hyperweave shirt into the mix, it looks even worse for the plasma sword, even with synththread, we get close to equel sharp&heat armor, so no points for the plasma sword.


the only advantage of a heat sword is the posability to set the enemy on fire, do enemies even care if they have high heat armor gear? (asuming enemies with low armor won't live long enough for the fire even matter)

[Dizzy Ioeuy]

If I were attacked by two people or more in hand-to-hand combat I know which one I'd use.

[Blazikasu]

I see monos as the best one for DPS, and plasma sword as a way cool/gimmicky way to get pawns downed with heat. I was under the impression the DPS of it only accounts for the slashes, but it also deals an unaccounted 8 fire damage. Not sure this is actually true, but if so, then basically both would end up doing like 28 dmg per hit, however the mono has essentially 99% pen and .6 less cd which makes it better for killing everything. Anyway, when I really want a guy downed I would rather not risk him dying to "lol rng all raiders have a chance to die when downed" and just use a psy shock lance on them.