im saying its not as cut and dry as your making it out to be. in a vacuum yes that is how it works, but each weapon as well as archetype has different measures of impact of said stats (thus why some weapons favor certain stats more then others). Pulse rifles, specifically the very fast ROF archetype, see very very minimal negative impact from a lack of range stat, to the point that in actual play, in bungies designed maps, there are very few if any situations where you would want to engage or even be able to engage at such a range as to make this an issue for this archetype of pulse rifle. (wich strangely has a longer effective range then a low ROF pulse archetype despite that low ROF pulse having a much larger range stat bar...go figure)