Talk:Paris/@comment-10743657-20130818202511

Food for thought. Here are my results when calculating the DPS of the 3 bows using Mad5cout's DPS calculator. This calculator calculates damage against every enemy type of each Faction, and every body part and calculates a meta score. So no, it's not only considering weak spots or unprotected body parts. The mob level is also set at 100.

The mod loadout I used was similar to what I've seen others using: Serration, Split Chamber, Piercing Hit, Vital Sense, Point Strike, Hammer Shot, Piercing Hit, Speed Trigger and Shred (the benefit of using Shred is arguable, and swapping it out for an elemental mod doesn't change which bow comes out on top). All values were for maxed mods. And of course, we're considering charged shots.

First off, let's look at Paris:

Now Dread:

And finally, Paris Prime:

Now the results actually aren't that surprising. Several other people who have calculated DPS for Dread and Paris have similar results (one example post), i.e. Dread can outperform Paris even though it does not 'ignore armor'. Now even though Paris Prime's average DPS is slightly lower on Corpus and Infested, notice that it takes less hits to kill them on average. So at least based on these calculations, Paris Prime > Dread > Paris.