I have no problem with a gun which may inflict poison and has pierce damage. My raw steak is with the recycled weapon mechanic. We already have five kinds of Alchemer, why not have something new?

I ought to explain the basics of a few of the statusesuses. Fire is obviously offense based, dealing consistent damage for its duration without significantly inhibiting the opponent or their abilities. Fire is active because the effect does something without any other sources of effects, such as another status or being attacked; the status can be independently useful. Freeze is essentially the opposite of fire in tactical use, immobilizing the afflicted for its duration and damaging if the effect is allowed to stay without being thawed or interfered with while preventing turning or moving out of place, yet is still considered active because it does not need another status or anything else to be effective. Freeze can still damage without the afflicted being attacked. Shock is a hybrid between fire and freeze lacking some points of either. It deals consistent damage for its duration similar to fire, during which the afflicted is subject to a spasm which interrupts whatever the target was doing (attack, movement, etc.), and is also active because it may work independently. These three statuses are affiliated to an Alchemer and Brandish line as active statuses which do not significantly overpower each other yet maintain active utility from the status alone, not counting the attack ability of the weapon. Vaporizers have very very minor utility as an offensive weapon without the status. With all weapons, having the ability to inflict a status counterbalances offensive use. The more status, the less attack damage. Compare Nitronome to Voltaic. On one side you have spammable damage, on the other you have a lot of shocking ability. Is one sometimes better than the other depending on the scenario? Yes. Does this apply to all weapon types? Yes, some weapons are more useful for their status than the weapon mechanic. However, Vaporizers are designed for active and passive support utility since Stagger and Venom exist. Keep in mind no other bomb which upgrades beyond 1* inflicts a status unless it is a Vaporizer. This is entirely intentional. Unless Electron still has shock, though the damage seems to have been scaled to Graviton and the details of shock have been removed. For guns and swords, however, we have a different issue: both already have options for poison and stun, the two passive support statuses. Dread Venom, Sudaruska, Rigadoon, Biohazard, Callahan, Plague Needle; we have these already. Notice how Sudaruska is a giant cleaver/claymore/wet-yourself-size sword and fittingly has the chance to inflict stun. Now imagine giving an Alchemer that ability. What. Now imagine the "assassin" weapon, Dread Venom, designed to sneak up behind something and vomit a few slashes in its buttocks before running away. Now imagine the up-front-and-obvious Alchemer inflicting poison. What. With Vaporizers it makes sense because the weapon depends on the status to be useful, unless you can rely on the unreliable damage radius and rate to time.

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It would be unfitting.

Alchemers have 5 different varients, a 6th one with the same firing speed and clip size is boring and unimaginative.