User blog comment:Slacker Anonymous-X/Which weapon has the highest DPS this time around on GER?/@comment-1419424-20151217033613

There is absolutely zero doubt as to LB's supremacy in GER, because, yes, IE is absurdly busted here. Which is a welcome change, since they were the only weapon without a BA capable of 100k damage or at least damage in the tens of thousands (i.e. Astral Dive, CC The End, and Evolution.  You could still pull off absurd numbers with BH's God Killer and VS' Execution). Hell, it sure didn't help that IE was locked to an unchainable bomb type without BA modification, so if you wanted to use a different IE type you were locked out of any sort of damage modifier. The only way LB could output decent damage reliably was through Unconscious Katana: Black (or situational use of Roaring Katana: Gold), but even then it couldn't begin to approach what the other weapons could put out.

I for one welcome this change (along with the removal of BAs), because it lets me put together a dedicated support set for online play while still letting me put out the highest damage numbers in my team thanks to liberal application of Tombstone IE.