Slugshot

The skill would not be bad by itself, however since we are able to deal damage with our Weapon Action, the skill is in a rather sorry state.

This is a fundamental issue because the game handles Slug Shot like a PA which makes it unable to cancel another PA unlike the Weapon Action which then leads to the following drawbacks:

• lower DPS than using Weapon Action Stage 1 to 3 after a PA
• lower DPS than using another PA like Stay Arts Shifting Spica or Stay Arts Waving Rigel instead
• does not build Rage which makes using a PA instead more appealing
• only restores 2 more PP than Weapon Action Stage 1 to 3
• only has 3 more range than Weapon Action Stage 1 to 3

I made a table comparing a few different scenarios with Stay Arts Flowing Sirius Stage 1 and 2 which has a Weapon Action cancel time of 0.25 seconds and Stay Arts Shifting Spica which has a Weapon Action cancel time of 0.1 seconds.

Variation	Potency	Time (s)	PP Cost	Focus	Rage	Focus/s	Rage/s	F0 DPS	F5 DPS	OD DPS
sFS12>Slug Shot	1350	3.61	34	19.7	11	27	9	374	416	436
sFS12>WA123	1510	3.88	36	23.2	11	30	8	389	433	453
sSS>Slug Shot	385	1.11	1	5.6	0.7	25	2	347	386	404
sFS12>WA123	545	1.53	3	9.1	0.7	30	1	355	396	414

This table already makes Slug Shot look bad in terms of damage but it actually does not even account for the fact that Weapon Action Stage 3 can be used to counter. So let us look at a counter scenario.

Variation	Potency	Time (s)	PP Cost	Focus	Rage	Focus/s	Rage/s	F0 DPS	F5 DPS	OD DPS
sFS12>Slug Shot>BCWA	2360	5.78	26	29.7	11	26	6	408	454	476
sFS12>WA123>BCWA	2470	5.68	30	32.2	11	28	6	435	484	507