Dude... Times vengance increases all gun damage to a burn status... Guess what doesn't get a burn status? Your super! Yes that's right you do LESS damage using say golden gun than landing a sniper shot. You're post although informatively written has no evidence to back it up. I know this one doesn't have much but if I remember correctly here... A sniper critical on Atheon does about 15,000-20,000 damage while times vengance is active. A golden gun does somewhere in the neighborhood of 2000-3000 I believe. You do the math. The time it takes to deal say 12,000 with golden gun you could have dealt 54,000 damage with 3 icebreaker shots landing a critical hit. Now shoo you go away.