Talk:Dread/@comment-10743657-20130818202009/@comment-10743657-20130819210701

"what about heavy units like ancients, heavy gunners or corpus techs? they have much higher armor than light and med units"

Thanks for mentioning this. I was thinking about it all day since you see high level Ancients and Heavy Gunners quite often in T3. I'm not going to consider Corpus Tech at the moment because you don't encounter ~100 ones that often. Anyway, yes it would be nice to consider them seperately since the Faction metascores may be skewed towards Dread. Here's just the Average DPS on Heavy Gunners and Ancient Healers for comparison:

Heavy Gunner (Average DPS):

Ancient Healer (Average DPS):

First I want to mention that the average assumes you hit all 2 or 3 of these body part regions equally. Obviously this is not true for everyone, but I'm just using it as a way to more easily compare. You can always just compare average DPS on each body part if you so choose.

Now on to the results. As we can see, Paris Prime definitely outperforms Dread on these two enemy types. Dread does slightly more on Ancients' lower arms/legs but they can be hard to hit due to the buggy hitboxes. Then when we look at Paris vs. Dread, even though these are highly armored enemies, Dread still appears to outperform Paris on average. So if we were to rank them based on this, it'd be Paris Prime > Dread > Paris once again.