Talk:Rakta Ballistica/@comment-79.219.128.11-20141216114158/@comment-204.210.103.136-20150107070014

A D is a straight disadvantage on a melee, because most of them with stances can now max out their mods with only a potato and no forma, and there are basically no good melee mods that have a D except for life strike, the use of which generally means you're only using that melee weapon for health restore.

On a Pistol, I'd say it's pretty much equivalent to an unpolarized slot, but only due to the fact that pistols can't max out on mods with only a potato. There's literally not a single reason to use a D mod on a pistol in ANY situation now that we have the two dual stat ice mods, both of which are straight up and clearly better in every way than the normal pistol ice mod.  Do not want, but don't really care either. I'll just polarize over it with my first forma into the gun, always.

On a rifle, if the rifle is:

A:  Accurate, and

B:  A crit build weapon, then a D is good, because you'll probably want to put in hammer shot for the increased crit headshots (4x) and status.

Otherwise, a D on a rifle is the same as a D on a pistol. If the rifle is not an accurate crit weapon, I'll polarize over the D, always, with my first forma into the gun.