Talk:Sicarus Prime/@comment-124.83.122.106-20180318214313/@comment-34733210-20180319065028

Never true. I'll explain, the simplified formula for damage for any weapon takes the following form:

Total damage = (base damage)*(multishot)*(crit)

Each term is affected by the mods in the listed category, and as you can see everything is a direct multiplication, if you assume a value of 1 for each term, then the total damage will be 1. Being a multiplication, the commutative property of multiplication applies, so taking our previous assumption, and you add 1 to any of the terms, the total damage will be 2 (2*1*1 = 1*2*1 = 1*1*2 = 2). This way, it doesn't matter where you add the values, the only thing that matters is how much value you add.

Now, Riven mods scale using the base value of the mod for a especific stat (damage for pistol use Hornet Strike, wihle crit chance use Pistol Gambit and not Primed Pistol Gambit). Taking the previous point into account, what matters in the end is which mods have the highest values. Target Cracker offers a 60% while Hornet Strike gives 220%, so raw damage will always be better than crit damage, it doesn't matter what the actual base values on the gun are (lets say 30% CC and 3.0 CD, base damage is still beter than CC or CD). Notice that for every weapon category base dmg mods have higher values than CD mods. So your statement is never true.

But as I said at the begining, this is a simplified view, internal mechanics of the weapon do affect which stats are desireable in rivens, like ms affecting the chance of procing status, or CC over 100% guaranteeing CD. But as a general rule, Dmg+CC is always better than CC+CD. Also worth pointing out, CC is an exception since its effectiveness depends on the weapons base CC value, in other words is not directly pondered as other stats, which means that is actually at disadvantage most of the time and its only saving grace is the crit. multiplier (doesn't mean that in weapons with high base CC, you want even more CC,  you are better off using CD).