Talk:Latron Prime/@comment-24032589-20150824110025/@comment-24557530-20150824121120

As someone who loves this weapon to bits for 2 yrs now, i found that HC is not a wild card on it. Point is it costs a lot of accuracy, which is not a problem if you can just rambo through everywhere, killing everything with bodyshots. In which case you likely wont need HC whatsoever ;) That aside without HC the Latron Prime got pinpoint accuracy, making it easy to score headshots on high priority targets.

Now to the math: HC "only" doubles your damage (instead of adding 165% bonus damage), because it stacks additivly with Serration. And taking HC out wont halve your damage, as you can put in another mod for it. Which should be obvious :D

Headshots on the other hand will also deal double damage (and you will miss quite a few of those with HC if not at point blank range) but Critical_Headshots recieve an additional 2.0x multiplier (so usually deal four times the normal crit damage). So if aimed properly a LP without HC may deal a lot more damage.

All that beeing said its ofcause totally up to you how you want to fit the LP in your playstyle. Personally i run different builds depending on my frame, role in the team, other equipped weapons and aim for the run. If its just one big target w/o small crit zones i go HC, but no shred, if its endless void i go no HC (to headcrit those gunners and bombards) and include Shred to still be able to kill hordes of smaller enemies. and so on, you get the idea ;)