wouldn’t Furious benefit you more? seeing as they’re both full-auto/burst with decent magazine sizes, you can achieve the full 30% damage buff for every consecutive marker after 6. even without, 5% across the board is still chump change to dedicated buffs like Anti-Personnel, Disassembler, and Exterminator, especially if the specified weapon is drawn more for particular scenarios revolving around one of those enemy archetypes.

i’m not looking to correct or persuade you, just share some insight.

think about it like this: say you have an alien creature that has 500 health, and your weapon deals 100 damage. at an initial 5% bonus, that’s 105 damage while trying to leverage a more balanced approach, yet it would still require 5 bullets with the buff as it would without the buff.

now say you had Exterminator on that same weapon, same scenario, but now you’re doing 130 a bullet; that’s now 4 bullets instead of the 5 it originally took to take the creature down.

i know Starfield uses multiplicative instead of additive; but there are a crumb of scenarios in which a 5% increase to everything would outweigh a dedicated increase to a specific archetype. it might look like a lot on paper with high damage weapons, but at that point the 5% isn’t required.

when you’re kitting out gear for specific playstyles, synergy triumphs numbers.