How Good Is Microcosm REALLY? (Microcosm DPS Testing)

Couple notes... 1) In each test my friends (Toidi & Onyx, AKA minion #1 and minion #2) were using the healing auto "No Hesitation" so Greg didn't annihilate me, but this does add a 10% stacking damage buff so just and FYI there. 2) For some reason there was a HUGE chunk at the end of the Thunderlord test, if that hadn't happened the damage would be far lower.

So thunderlord is meta and I should tell all future LFG’s to run thunderlord? got it

Did nobody realize that he got a second nova bomb when he was using thunder Lord 9:58

I like how he didnt activate transcendent with thunderlord.

Absolutely cooks the final boss in RON. As he registered as a tormentor

Call me crazy, but for this specific length of a damage phase, thunderlord outperforms microcosm because of the possibility for a second nova bomb

Real benefit to Microcosm is pairing with kinetic specials like Mountaintop or Supremacy with surges and rebuilding transcendance esp on warlock for maintaining debuffs. You can run a recombination on mountaintop as a burst or run FTTC/Rewind - or KT on Supremacy to just turn into a sustain king. With how strong elemental primaries are its just better to run those for general ad clear so if you're doing Warlord's or fighting the Witness with some bad teammates who can't pump damage you can really push your total damage with just your base reserves and still have a good primary which is the weak part about the Nighthawk hunter kit.

Cenotaph for microcosm and not actium for thunderlord. You can always see the agenda clear as day in any thunderlord video.

side note to make it easier to manage no hesitation healing/damage buff, have them use witherhoard so it'll refresh the energy as hes shooting it, guaranteeing you have the buff up at all times granted, this makes healthbar testing vastely more annoying but if youre going off wipe screen it's fine

Microcosm (with increased damage build) is a perfectly fine substitute for still hunt for those of us who can't snipe

On some of the tests (particularly 3 and 4)you lost a few seconds of paracausal imbuement before you started firing, so those numbers could be a smidge higher

Man if these weapon had an element attached to it I would have cooked using eternal warrior and star eater to get the surge x 4 plus the buff it gets after using your super, plus the buffed super would be very very good.

The lord keeps lurking LMAO

Just some personal thoughts. I feel like that Thunderlord Microcasum comparison was kind of lazy. We didn't get any kind of control to compare between the two guns side by side without a laundry list of factors added which affect each. Different people are going to use different set ups for different reasons and having a good read on a weapons power at base and then how different factors could potentially hurt or help it will help a broader audience of players make good build choices based on there person preferences or teams needs.

I actually thought this was aztecross from the thumbnail😅

Lazy dps should always be Leviathan's Breath! Catalyst required, but it's great for a no swap dps option

I'd like to see a round with Priz Titan + Actium + Twilight Arsenal + Thunderlord. Not ideal DPS but I bet it cooks with a dmg phase that long.

I mean, I like running Thunderlord on my titan, my secondary character, with Actium War Rig because I rarely have to reload during a damage phase and it is a king of lazy DPS.

Thunderlord is still not great against the witness though, since its too inaccurate to hipfire and you'll very likely have to stop firing somewhere along the way to dodge a witness beam -- which completely nukes the RPM and DPS of the weapon by comparison

Such good advice for theregoesflawless