They pretty much fall within the range you listed. All depends on your fighting style. If you have a great aim, then the higher single damage weapons tend to do better, If you just like continuously firing in every direction till you manage to hit something (much like myself) then high rof/no energy usage nomad weapons are great.

*sigh*, I"ve had this argument before and having "great aim" has nothing do with firing rate. You can either hit something or you can't. The catch is, sometimes you dont' really care much about how much damage you do so long as you hit -something- , like when you're fighting lower level fighters, or mining asteroids. Having faster firing rate also gives you "tracers", which can help hitting fast moving targets. I like to mix nomad blasters and cannons together to get more "bursts" per shot, since they have inconsistent firing rates.

Usualy mining or wreck salvage I use a single gun, but my point of view comes from larger battles I have been in against corsairs/outcasts/bounty hunter vhfs. I use 4 nomad weapons solely because I like my tracer rounds and an almost unlimited supply of energy to support them tracers, now take my fighting style (which I usually do) and put 4 of the highest single shot damaging cl10 weapons on there I can find,even with a 2.0 fire rate, within seconds those tracers have turned into sporatic poofs as my reactor is melting down trying to keep up with my now depleted energy reservs. I suffer from extreme fingerus always on the fire buttonitis, heck I even try to fire my guns when cruising, I just love that fire button. There are a lot of good posts on this forum and in general forum that covers almost every weapon stat/loadout to cover almost any fighting style, practice a bit and you will find the one that works best for you. hehe, my immediate combat area looks something like the death blossom going off in Last Starfighter.