FTL - Faster Than Light

[T-hawk]

if you have any secondary weapon ... hitting the weapons with that weapon first

You're arguing right past me at a completely different case.  I had no secondary weapon and no knowledge of when I would.

I was preparing to get through sectors 3-4 entirely on what I had right then.  The Burst 3 alone can do that more reliably than the IB2 alone, particularly considering that the IB2 requires consuming combat drone parts too.

Sure, IB2 plus a heavy laser or maybe even an IB1 might be better than the BL3.  I didn't have that.

I might even use the BL3 and hold on to the IB2 in case a good pairing does come.  But not when the IB2's sell value could be turned into the more immediately urgently useful defense drone.  That's the real concern - the defense drone was the bigger swing than any differential between the weapons.

Ultimately, we're probably both right, it was a solidly winnable run either way, we'll never know whose approach might have resulted in like 99.2% win probability instead of 99.5% or some such.