Talk:Wraith Twin Vipers/@comment-24.79.99.72-20150105162451/@comment-76.173.107.158-20150505075252

^ In that case, thanks for being one of th few who actually DOES the math. Yeah, the pistol crit mods look weak (becaue everyone compares to the soma...) and to be honest, there's only a single gimmick case I would even CONSIDER slotting Hollow Point (Crit damage nukor with a particular Tier 3 arcane setup...) because it's just that bad, but then again, people forget that the Grakata was the proto-soma... if they ever even realized it in the first place.

(Yes, Grakata was the first crit-build primary assault rifle, but between its ammo hoggishness and its crazy ride-up, most people don't realize that it's actually good, just hard to use like a buffed rakta ballistica)

So, people look at the crit chance on secondaries, coupled with the seemingly-low crit damage Target Cracker, and say "nuh uh that sucks" but what they don't realize is that Vital Sense, on a crit primary, is just ridiculously, stupidly, outrageously powerful. Target Cracker is actually a very reasonable mod as far as crit goes, unlike the terribad True Steel for melee weapons (which also lack anything like multishot... Ouch). Honestly, Even Hollow Point isn't THAT bad... just with the number of slots we have in weapons (8) and the fact that Target Cracker is just the straight up better mod and so will get slotted first, lowering the cumulative value of ALSO adding Hollow Point in the process, it becomes bad on everything (with that one gimmick exception...). If Target Cracker didn't exist, I would absolutely be slotting Hollow Point in its place, but as is, Hollow Point honestly needs a stat boost (maybe to 0.9 crit damage and -15% damage...) to make it worthwhile, kind of like the original physical damage mods (30% for primary, 60% for secondary, and 90% for melee... all weaker than elementals ALWAYS).

If anyone missed the Wipers (or Wraipers...) and still wants a good crit secondary, look no further than the Akmagnus, Pyrana, or AkLex, all of which are fantastic High-Performing crit secondaries.