Talk:Hek/@comment-13099169-20130723093221/@comment-66.60.227.195-20130723174910

It really depends on your target.

For general purposes charged shell is superior against corpus and inferior against infested, whereas fire is superior against infested and inferior against corpus (and the grineer resist them both...so...)

So, we'll assume your first question is asked regarding fighting corpus, sicne that's the only time you'll want to use charged shell if you're limited on mod space.

When comparing charged shell versus chilling grasp there's a couple things to consider.

1) They both do "90%" damage, but different resistances come into play. Shields will take double damage from the freeze but the corpus themselves react "neutrally" to it (there's no real advantage or disadvantage to hitting them with freeze damage). Electrical damage, on the other hand, gains no bonuses when hitting shields but will do double damage freeze will on the corpus persona themselves. So if you're fighting corpus and trying to choose between chilling and charged, consider whether or not you'll be fighting higher concentrations of shielded enemies or not.  If most will probably be unshielded, just stick with charged. Of course, for best results use both simultaneously against corpus and just ditch fire when fighting them.

2) Chilling grasp actually uses fewer mod points than charged does...so if you're running low on mod space consider this as well...maybe slotting in chilling grasp instead of charged will let you squeeze in that extra armor pierce mod you couldn't before or something.

3) Don't underestimate the slow effect on chilling grasp. You can opt to go with the other damage mods and just take a level 0 chilling grasp mod as well to still slow your enemies. On a shotgun this is really quite helpful as the spread on the cone can hit multiple enemies at once and slow an entire group, giving you great crowd control (think: mob of infested enemies). So if you don't want it for damage, chilling grasp has those properties as well.

My recommendation if you are LOW on mod space:

Against corpus stick with charged shell first, and chilling if you can fit it.

Against infested stick with fire, and maybe a level 0 chilling if you can fit it.

I would not bring JUST chilling on its own since there are better general-purpose mods.