Phasers are better than Star Wars blasters and light sabers

Phaser SuperiorityThe first advantage of a Phaser is over both light sabers and blasters. That advantage is versatility. Settings 1-3.5 are stun settings. setting 4 and 5 cause heating to a variety of objects. Setting 6 and 7 can cause burns on humanoids and can vaporize Noranium Carbide; a material with a boiling point of 2314 degrees Celsius. Setting 10 can kill humanoids and setting 16 can vaporize entire tunnels of rock. Then there is also a cutting setting, a phaser sweep setting which allows an entire group of humanoids to be stunned at once; a major advantage over the stun setting on blasters, the could also be made to fire a bolt of phaser energy, and can be set at a frequency to dephase things that are phased or interphased. I contend that the versatility is a major advantage over the cut-only light saber and the kill or stun setting of a blaster.Another advantage over blasters is that phasers are much more accurate. According to Wookiepedia blasters have a large amount of recoil causing the bolts to be less accurate. Phasers on the other hand have almost no recoil at all so they can be much more accurate.The third advantage phasers have over blasters is that a phaser doesn't use gas to make the beam or bolt; so the user doesn't have to replace gas cartridges since phasers only require power, and there power cell lasts for a very long time even on high settings. Now on the issue of materials that are unaffected by phasers; most blasters are also unlikely to have a great effect as they are less powerful than a phaser. The evidence for them being less powerful is that a phaser can vaporize entire tunnels of rock while the most blasters have been shown to do is causing severe burns and fires on a variety of materials. The most significant advantage over light sabers is range. A light saber is a purely short range one purpose weapon that is optimized for combat against a single entity while a phaser is a long range weapon which can be used for many different tasks unrelated to combat and can be used against a large group of entities at once. Here's another way to think of it; whose going to win this battle a knight with no armor and a sword against an archer? The archer of course because the knight can't defend himself.Now many people will say that a light saber could deflect a phaser beam; however this is not true or one reason: a phaser doesn't use magnetic fields. You see a light saber deflects blaster bolts with it's incredibly strong magnetic field repelling against the blaster bolts magnetic field. However a phaser beam is made out of chargeless particles which aren't affected by magnetic fields; so a light saber can't repel them.On the issue of sabotage it still is very difficult to sabotage one and with the loading time for self destruct; there is plenty of time to get away.About hyperonic radiation; the regenerative phaser designed by star fleet overcomes that issue.On the comment of how a bolt of energy is harder to trace back to it's origin than a beam; a phaser can release bolts of phaser energy rather than a beam. I'd also like to tell readers that the Dikironium Cloud Creature wasn't hurt by phasers because it could phase out of space-time; so a blaster or light saber wouldn't be effective either.In conclusion the phasers versatility, range, accuracy, and power more than makes up for it's weaknesses and gives it a distinct advantage over the one purpose light saber and blaster.