Talk:True Steel/@comment-208.125.239.182-20130515173058

Since the Dual Zoren have such a high base crit rate (30%), this mod is effectively gimped to keep the Zoren from having an OP crit rate.

Quite a shame, really, because people generally vastly under-rate and misunderstand the effectiveness of  the 'crit rate + crit damage'  snowball effect in this game. When you can pump your crit damage up to 400%+ normal swing/shot damage, then it doesn't take much of a crit rate boost to see a climb in DPS.

But with such a ridiculous disparity in base crit rates (from 2.5% to 30%, most being 5%) and the facepalm of a critmod mechanic making crit mods increase crit% by a % of base crit rates  ... the disparity in crit-mod effectiveness between the Dual Zoren and average melee weapons compounding exponentially will keep crit mods worthless for every other weapon. And they have no choice, really, the game has to be balanced around the top-end potential.