I know this is UBER late; but, this gun rox! If you run it with the arc sub-classes (esp lock) and are good at aiming at the head with burst shots, you will wreck and have fun all at the same time. I see it most effective in pve strikes where the amount of enemies grows to insane portions: i sometimes find the combo enemy zaps from the arc-chaining death dealing from gun is very hard to distinguish from the arc-chaining death dealing of my super, grenade, or melee. It's also nice that it's one of the few primary-elemental weapons in year-2 (esp among the epic primaries). The magazine is a nice round number: 36 IIRC. A nice chain on say 3-4 enemies from your initial target that you kill will also proc's an ability that charges up your super a VERY fair amount :) As an AR, the stability is impressive, the range is amazing, and because i am about to equip it to my titan for a little fun, on the tier 3, you have the choice of [spoiler] - Hammer Forged: Stock and ehh - Rifled Barrel: sacrifice about 12% (of 100, or 18% of current) reload for 10% (of 100, or 20% of current) more range (my preferred for most scenarios) - Braced Frame: sacrifice about 12% (of 100, or 50% of current) range for almost doubling your stability to about 96% (of total, or 60% of current) stability! ([i]i'd say do this in short maps pvp or when you prefer to get up-close-and-personal in pve.[/i]) [b]Note[/b] [i]that this will also drop your max ammo you can hold for this gun a bit even though the mag seems unchanged at 36 on screen - it may drop it to the stock 28, though.[/i]. [/spoiler] Also, while I prefer to keep the default Tier 1 (CQB Ballistics), you can do 1 of the following if you'd like about 30% (of current) more impact: [spoiler] 1. Choose [i]Aggressive Ballistics[/i] from [b]Tier 1[/b] and [i]Braced Frame[/i] from [b]tier 3[/b]. - This gives you an overall 10-11% (of 100) [b]Impact[/b] ([i]increased[/i]), about an overall 28% (of 100) [b]Range[/b] ([i]decreased[/i]), and about an overall 73-74% (of 100) [b]Stability[/b] ([i]increased[/i]) while potentially dropping your mag size. 2. Choose [i]Aggressive Ballistics[/i] from [b]Tier 1[/b] and [i]Rifled Barrel[/i] from [b]Tier 3[/b] - This gives you an overall 10-11% (of 100) [b]Impact[/b] ([i]increased[/i]), about an overall 50% (of 100) [b]Range[/b] ([i]increased[/i]), and about an overall 58% (of 100) [b]Reload[/b] ([i]decreased[/i]). This does leave your [b]Stability[/b] at around 46% (of total (stock)). [/spoiler]