Talk:Paris Prime/@comment-193.105.67.119-20141219224430/@comment-4448946-20150204213141

I'm going to try to be a bit more thorough here than everybody else and their ones sentence responses.

It uses rifle mods you and has great accuraccy: Serration, Heavy Caliber and Split Chamber are good

Its Damage is 80% Pierce Damage: Piercing Caliber is good (especially for Grineer and Void)

Going for crit build: Point Strike and Vital Sense are definitely good

Thats 6 good mods, now we move into trade off territory.

It has a 2.0x crit multiplier so after Vital Sense it has 4.4x and with the addittion of Hammer Shot a 5.6x. Now if you compare those multipliers,  5.6 / 4.4 = 1.2727 so adding hammer shot only increases total damage by slightly over 27%. Also, though it does also increase status chance it will only move you from 20% to 28%. So over the course of 100 hits you'll get 8 extra status procs but as the goal is to one shot enemies with a bow the procs you can get are negligible.

Critcal Delay is not a particularly good choice for a bow, fire rate is already very low and if you read the tips section of it's page you'll understand that it actually decreases your damage per second.

I'd say remove both Hammer Shot and Critical Delay and add on.....

Speed Trigger and an Elemental mod of your choice.

Speed Trigger will greatly decrease the time to get fully charged shots and the elemental will up your total damage output more than Hammer Shot as even the weakests elemental mods add 60% damage.

If you're set on max crit chance/using crit delay. Then i suggest you pull hammer shot and add Speed Trigger for the fire rate increase.