Talk:Acrid/@comment-122.167.67.119-20130620115450/@comment-10719468-20130620134411

Acrid is a rapid fire, although semi-auto fire, weapon, for any rapid fire weapons it is great to have all the elements on there. 30% armor piercing elemental isn't all that great but it still adds to your overall DPS. When looking at pistol mods, all you have left to choose from is ammo capacity, magazine size, crit chance and crit damage, or hawk's eye for increased zoom. If you feel like sacrificing 30% of your regular damage as extra per shot on almost all mobs for one of those mods, then feel free to.

This is how I built my despair, and that's how I'm building my acrid, slapping two forma on acrid to make it double V slots like despair and slapping on that barrel diffusion, hornet strike, ice, fire, elec, armor pierce, and gun slinger. Maxing all of those mods would make it exactly 60 mod capacity using 7 of the 8 mod slots with those two V slots for barrel and hornet at max. Pure damage build since I don't mind stopping for 1 second to reload, and the crit on this thing is horrible; there's no point in hawk's eye in my opinion since I can aim just fine with this weapon and its accuracy is reduced when shooting at long range anyway.