Talk:Paris Prime/@comment-10743657-20130818202530/@comment-10743657-20130819015815

"can you explain why dread has higher average damage but it takes more hits to kill than paris prime? I'm scratching my head a bit. Thanks!"

Ah, I figured why there's a difference. In the Damage Calculator page, it says "average hits to kill" only uses normal hits, i.e. it does not factor in critical hits like "average damage" does. This would make a huge difference since one of Dread's main advantages is its higher base critical damage (200% vs 150%).

"And as a side question, is it really necessary to put in crit chance %? the base is 10% so how much would it go up by I mean it sounds still pretty low."

Yup, it is. 10% is fairly low, but you don't use normal attacks regularly with bows. Most of the time, you just use charge attacks which have 20% base crit chance. With maxed Vital Sense (+120% crit chance), your crit chance for charge attacks becomes 50%, so it's quite a significant source of additional damage. That's why most bows are built for critical damage.