its a GREAT perk! and if you use all three weapons with cocoon? goodbye reload time! reload time is what lowers DPS, mind you, so for that fact alone cocoon is great.

Or you could; use black spindle where you don't reload period. use something like a sword which doesn't reload period. use something that has so much dps that whatever you shoot at it doesn't matter that you need to reload because it's dead like Gjallarhorn

BS; you miss a SINGLE shot, there goes your DPS (also uses your exotic slot). sword; a lot of bosses dont let you get close ( they have trust issues). gjonkerham; its a high BURST damage weapon, but it quickly falls off, and then fails completely if you dont feed it those purple bricks. its also de-throned as the undisputed DPS king. again, it uses your exotic slot. cocoon suffers from a lack of pizzaz. its not explosions born from more explosions, its a good solid DPS that hinges on little extra factors. its unload, switch, repeat. its a very very solid DPS outlet that is pretty versatile too. but mostly, its under appreciated.

I'm talking about Wrath of the Machine. Sword for aksis. (DPS the boss) Gjallarhorn for zamboni. (Quickly kill groups of enemies/Yellow captains) Sleeper stimulant and/or sniper for archpriest. (DPS or captains) Black spindle can be used, but you're right about missing meaning that it's useless. But I rarely miss. I'm not trying to sound cocky, it's just that if the boss is staggering, I'm hitting crits. Hell, even in King's Fall, cocoon was rarely used. You used Touch of Malice or Black spindle.

i realised that when you went with the sword, but despite that what i said holds even better: cocoon works very well in ANY instance. they provide a stream-lined DPS even when fighting ads, as time spent reloading is time ads deal damage or are otherwise alive. BS doesnt do well against ads. swords and g-thong do, to a point, and that point is ammo, where-as cocoon weapons encompass ALL weapon categories, again granting them much wider versatility than BS, swords, or gjonkerham. i know that cocoon is rarely used and that is exactly my point: it is under used and under appreciated for the boon that it is. if other guns could have cocoon, then it'd EASILY be a top-tier perk (for PVE. it has niche uses in PVP but thats not my focus).