Talk:Dread/@comment-98.15.250.72-20131110004500

for those who are still wondering about "paris vs dread"

if you can manage to hit every enemy in their weak (lower thighs for ancients, head for grineer) then dread will actually outdamage the paris and even paris prime, but that is only if you actually manage to crit. so it's very situational, but arrows are useless anyway unless they crit. so if you are a good sniper, i would go with the dread. youre supposed to be going for the weak points of enemies with a bow anyway. bows dont have enough ammo to be used as a click-click open fire weapon (sniper ammo pool, remember) so you want to make every shot count. this is the reason why people still use the dread, because, given that they can aim, it has 200% crit damage for a base damage of 60, which is still more than the 150% crit damage for paris prime's 65 base damage. if you hit the weak spots, dread will work better

paris works really well on all body parts, and it has the same crit chance as dread. it's only for a couple hundred damage total that youre sacrificing with the paris. what i would do is use paris/paris prime for faster paced battles, with conjunction to a frame that can keep mobs at a standstill (like vauban with his bastille). dread imo is better for stealth if you have less interference, allowing you to shoot weak spots more easily

you should also consider that with the dread, elemental damage will scale better with it's base damage, 33% more damage with the dread than the paris, and they will scale even higher with the paris prime, except if hit on a weakspot with crits applied, the dread can still outdamage just cuz of higher crit damage.

it's all situational preference, i cant tell you which one to pick