[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] grey101 3. Sit down and publicly explain [b]why[/b] plasma is inherently better than ballistics. It doesn't have anything to do with halo and this forum had this talk about 3 years ago. First off you can see plasma traveling through air/space which gets you the heads up to try getting out of the way. You can't see a bullet flying through the air and in space you would only see missiles and a laser depending. If i shoot you in the arm with a plasma rifle the arm will be gone, catheterized, and you wouldn't feel any pain because the limb was pretty much burned off. Now shoot another person in the arm with a rifle and it gets messy. You have to worry about if the bullet(s) hit a vein or passed cleanly. It honestly goes from there but generally if you get shot in the arm the only thing keeping you going on is adrenaline If we are talking about a warzone. Even then that might not be enough for you to ignore the damage to your arm and keep fighting. Sure you can switch arms but if you can't actually make that work then you will have to be patched up by a medical right there or taken off the filed. THEN, if you want to be a badass and just completely ignore the wound. You have to worry about the bullet fragmenting in you arm or subserviently wherever it landed, which if [b]not[/n] a good thing. You're a kid do you like iron man? Do you know [b]why[/b] he has the arc reactor in his chest? To keep the shrapnel from an explosion (which wasn't caused by plasma) away from his heart.[/quote]One question... Wouldn't the plasma do a better job of making the arm useless? Isn't the point of firing a weapon at someone, to make them useless (e.g. dead) or wherever you hit useless? With ballistics there is the chance of that arm recovering. With plasma... It's gone for good.