Talk:Dread/@comment-92.75.113.192-20130715130142/@comment-71.108.136.198-20130716071300

I would debate that Paris Prime is better than Dread; in fact, I would like to believe in general, Paris < Paris Prime =< Dread.

Paris Prime may have more base damage, but if you're spamming shots with a bow, you're probably not using it properly (except for Thunderbolt proc'ing).

Dread has armor piercing, while Paris Prime has armor ignore, which means for most enemies, they WOULD deal the "same" damage since both bow's charged shots deal 150 base damage. However, Dread has 200% crit compared to Paris Prime's 150% crit, which means Dread can hit a lot harder, assuming you can pull off a crit.

As a side note, it's rather difficult to beat Dread's two attack ("V") innate polarities. Sure, you can burn two Forma to even up, but those two Forma could add two other polarities to the Dread.