Talk:Destreza Prime/@comment-29423691-20180620005632

Innate slash procs on the first two jabs make this weapon inherently good for a crit build that uses Condition Overload and dual-status elementals to increase status chance to boost CO damage on slash procs, which are the majority of this weapon's damage.

Primed Pressure Point, Blood Rush, Drifting Contact, Berserker

Organ Shatter, Virulent Scourge, Vicious Frost, Condition Overload

Compared to the best Rapier Zaw (Plague Kripath + Korb + Vargeet II Jai) the Destreza Prime has:

76 base damage vs 112 damage (32% decrease)

1.0 attack speed vs .75 attack speed (33% increase)

24% critical strike chance vs 36% critical strike chance (33% decrease)

3.0x critical strike multiplier vs 2.2x critical strike multiplier (35% increase)

18% status chance vs 10% status chance (80% increase)

Is incapable of using Zaw-specific arcanes.

At first glance it looks like for the most part the two are even, but I'd like to remind people that a 33% decrease requires a 50% increase to be made even again (3 to 2 is a 33% decrease, 2 back to 3 is a 50% increase) so in this case the Zaw shines more in its strengths over the Destreza. Plus you can use Arcanes, and Exodia Force/Contagion/Epidemic are quite nice to have.

So in terms of whether "Zaws are better", yes, they pretty objectively are. However, I would still personally prefer using this over my Plague Kripath, because this has a bling factor the other does not.