Talk:Dread/@comment-186.154.103.243-20180216064417/@comment-67.11.161.251-20190504044247

Daikyu is only beating your dread because your dread riven is nearly trash and you aren't aiming for headshots, probably not using Hunter Munitions either.

Optimal Dread Riven:  Status chance, crit chance, multi, negative impact (or puncture).

Daikyu has comparatively poor crit potential anyway, so the flat damage is comparable. Both should be using dual status mods for viral against armor.

Optimal Daikyu Riven:  Slash, Damage, Critical Chance/Multi, negative puncture.

Daikyu has such high status that some of it is wasted, and slash is less than 30% of it physical damage balance. It also has 2.3x damage per shot, tied to 0.4x the crit chance, which actually nearly balance each other out for body-shots (Daikyu would need 500/shot for perfect balance). Daikyu takes twice as long to draw, but has marginally quicker reload time.

Daikyu loses more crit chance than it gains base damage even for bodyshots, gains 2.5x status chance by losing more than 66% of the only damage balance that matters for it (would need 3x status to balance, but it couldn't even then since the status is already wastefully high), and charges half as fast for a measly ~16.7% increase in reload speed.

In addition, while crit chance that exceeds 100% isn't wasted like status chance, crit chance below 100% will hurt you on the additional 2x crit headshot multiplier. This fortunately can mostly be made up for with a Daikyu riven with 180-200% crit chance.

TL;DR:  With or without good rivens on both, even without aiming for heads, Dread will destroy Daikyu versus armor, even on an average per-shot basis, let alone DPS.

You really should stop giving your opinion on weapon comparisons, Muffin, since you're nearly always wrong. It's particularly irritating when unsolicited. No one asked about the Daikyu, or even any other bow than the Dread.