Talk:Argon Scope/@comment-78.141.114.96-20160731152336/@comment-27465847-20160802192127

So many wrong assumptions in one place. It's far from useless but obviously overrated. The common misconception that red crits equal awesome equals best DPS can only be sneered at if you actually look into it for moment.

As for the comparison with Bladed Rounds: Argon Scope will always lose that fight unless you look for a very specific setup (high damage per shot weapons (like Tonkor or Dex Sybaris) which are able to guarantee crits that way where BR would just lead to more overkill damage with the potential to miss a crit).

There's no reason to favour AS over BR on an assault rifle since you're much closer to the average DPS the more shots you need and on average, BR is stronger. Primed Bane 10/10 is even a tad better than BR without the need to constantly zoom in. Personally, I'd never use any of those three on any Soma since punch through is way too essential.

The Dread is one of the worst weapons to use AS on. The overkill argument actually applies the other way around here since you already guarantee crits with Point Strike and therefore, BR essentially increases all damage directly while AS only increases the chance to red crit. I'd rather have a constant 6.8x multiplier instead of a relatively low red crit multiplier of 7.8x with a 7.5% 'miss' chance for only 4.4x.

As for the Simulor, BR would be stronger as usual but only for enemy levels where it wouldn't matter anyway. The longer you take, the better a hybrid Status build gets plus having to constantly zoom in on a weapon without the need to actually aim isn't really desirable.

Why Penta? 38.5% crit chance are far too unreliable; I'd rather go full damage plus a casually thrown in Vital Sense to put the +60% crit chance Adarza Kavats give you to better use.