Talk:Dread/@comment-173.79.105.11-20130604000355/@comment-50.139.136.144-20130604042618

"I think your a bit mistaken about Dread being a one faction weapon. I know the x3 vs infested may make it seem that way, but Dread is just as good against Corpus, and only drops off on higher level Grineer."

I totally agree, and the Furax is a great example of this. In all honesty, despite the fact that the furax deals 3x damage to infested, it ends up actually not being a superior choice for them due to it's lack of cleave. What the furax is really known for is it's insane single targetting mele charge attack, something that can be used on any faction, especially when combo'd with other powers such as loki/ash's cloak or saryn's contagion. Strangely enough, when used with ash's cloak, the furax ends up being best at ancient hunting rather than killing all the small-fry infested; the ones that it's supposed to do tripple damage against.

That being said, there is a noticible trend of projectile weapons (boltor, akbolto, kunai, paris, etc.) all having innate armor ignore, which begs the question why the dread got left out (even despair got armor piercing damage type), and it does seem like quite the loophole in the system.

I have yet to achieve the weapon and try it out for myself, so I don't know how the numbers actually do flush out with this higher base damage, although I imagine that it would probably drop off in a much more awkward way against higher level enemies than the paris does (your damage keeps dropping rather than they just have too much hp for you to kill as easily).