Dread

The Dread is the Stalker's bow.

This weapon can be sold for.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily Slash damage.

Advantages:
 * Higher Base Damage than Paris (Tied with the Paris Prime).
 * Highest critical chance of all bows, increasable to 100% with Point Strike.
 * Tied with the Cernos for highest crit damage of the bows.
 * Silent.
 * High Slash Damage makes it effective versus Infested and Flesh type enemies.
 * Can stagger Ancients on every hit, even uncharged.
 * Bolts drop less when compared to Paris.
 * Two polarity slots.
 * Can hit multiple enemies in a line.
 * The bow exclusive mod Thunderbolt makes this weapon more devastating against groups of enemies.

Disadvantages:
 * Low Impact and Puncture damage, ill-suited for Shields or Armor.
 * Slow fire rate renders Dread ill-suited for close quarters.
 * When charging arrows between each shot, enemy shields will often start to regenerate in between each shot.
 * Requires large amounts of Plastids to build. (Only a disadvantage to new players, in which case what are you doing fighting the stalker?)
 * Can be hard to find its blueprint. (one must defeat the Stalker in order to have a chance of its blueprint dropping.

Acquisition
The Dread cannot be purchased separately, but it is included in the What Stalker? bundle. Its blueprint can be dropped by the Stalker upon death or when he is forced to flee.

Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Tips

 * Use the Arrow Mutation mod to compensate for the low ammo capacity and regain lost ammo.