Talk:Attica/@comment-24515081-20160128054927/@comment-27465847-20160314104135

Well, because both really means less overall damage. You might end up with a minor raw DPS advantage but you'll usually miss out on up to three times the damage due to combined elemental bonuses. The only time that's not true is with Toxin and Viral against Corpus - other than that, you always lose damage.

Consistency is definitely a good argument but personally I wouldn't use it when you can't guarantee crits (~26% base crit onwards, so 30% in the Warframe universe). That said, I don't even use it on those weapons because of a number of things.

First of all, the advantage on guaranteed headcrits only really shines if you one-shot stuff. Before that, there will be a period of time where you do enough damage anyway and then there's the phase afterwards where you'll need multiple hits. That's definitely a long shot but when comparing those rather min-maxed builds, it should be taken into account (still depends on the actual use and mission).

And then there's the factor of headshots. I tried but I might just be too bad to land them on a consistent basis (on some enemy types) and I'm annoyed by sometimes not having Argon Scope up all the time which yet is so easily achieved by Bladed Rounds.