Talk:Rakta Cernos/@comment-216.85.0.246-20150915200134/@comment-76.173.107.158-20150917075628

Beyond that, they have about the same base damage, and this fires way, way, way faster, meaning that that slot a lot of Dread/Paris Prime users devote to a Speed Trigger or Vile Accelleration can be used for extra damage mods, or an ammo mutation with no downside.

It's when you throw in the ammo mutation that it really shines. Sure, it doesn't have quite the crit chance or status chance of the Dread, but let's be honest here, Slash procs got nerfed, hard, meaning that it's not like 4/5 of the Dread's damage now, so that status chance isn't nearly as good as it used to be. On top of that, this bow can fire faster than the Dread with a firing rate mod, while still using Arrow Mutation. On top of that, this bow has the Red Veil Syndicate procs, meaning 100% viral proc in a huge AoE. You build it with decent status and Corrosive plus an ammo mutation. The innate impact deals with shields very effectively, while the Viral procs cut health in half, and the corrosive and its procs can quickly debuff armor on tougher foes (if the headshots to the weaker armor on the head don't oneshot them first).

Finally, Red crits. Critical Delay Bad, Mmmmkay? Always. Yeah, you can't efficiently mod the R-Cernos for red crits, but considering that red crits only do 2x crit damage instead of crit x crit damage, that's really not much of a loss, and the R-Cernos has 25% more base damage than the Dread or Paris Prime bows anyway, so it will be more reliable.