Talk:Acrid/@comment-11753608-20130727132623/@comment-11753608-20130728162605

It used to. So perhaps this is a change in U9. This definitely tilts things back toward Acrid.

In that case, Despair really only does better against Light and Heavy Grineer - due to low armor levels and positive armor piercing damage multipliers for Despair - fit for hit. What it really comes down to after that is whether Despair's full-auto fire rate can compensate for the damage gap. I would wager that in the case of light infested and corpus - not a chance in hell. For medium Grineer and Ancients it is a much closer fight and Despair might be able to make up the difference with fire rate.

In the end, however, it seems that because the tick thing was either changed (or incorrect to begin with), then Acrid is indeed a better all around weapon.