Talk:Dread/@comment-178.45.54.79-20131006151735/@comment-24072154-20131103193840

Dread is simply incapable of killing Grineer, Ancient Infested, or anything else with even a smidgen of armor at any reasonable level. Sure you can talk about headshots all you want, but the fact of the matter is that my Paris Prime will be hitting two to three enemies in a row fairly rapidly and for full damage while your Dread will still be setting up the first headshot to even try to do noticable damage.

So sure you can talk about theoretical crit damage all you want but with Shred on, Paris Prime will outclass Dread in almost every situation.

Let's look at this with numbers. Comparing base stats, the only difference is that Dread has 200% crit damage compared to Paris Prime's 150%. Assuming maxed crit chance on both (59.6%), this is a 29.8% average DPS increase from Dread to Paris Prime.

Sounds pretty good right? But now let's talk about one of the main staples of every primary build that exists: Shred.

Once you get to the level that Dread requires headshots to do damage, Shred becomes almost unusable on it except as a small bonus to fire rate, because of the unreliability of headshots behind cover or on multiple foes. Paris and Paris Prime, however, still not requiring headshots, can always use Shred effectively and will get a much larger boost to real-life damage than Dread.

Your move Dread users.