Is Dread As Dreadfully Bad As People Say Now?

[Silver_Fox75]

Yesterday after an encounter with the god of deat....... oops i mean stalker, he happened to drop me a dread blueprint. Seeing as though i didn't currently have a bow i figured i'd build it and I'd like to know what i should expect. I know it deals mostly slash damage and has a high crit chance/damage. But is it worth a potato like people say Pre damage 2.0?

[Palor0]

Use it against infested and it is amazing.

[Haldos]

My advice with any weapon you are unsure about is level it up to 30 before putting a Catalyst in it. You'll have a good idea of how it performs and whether you even like it as a weapon long before then.

[fatpig84]

It is a mighty fine performer now.

Really brings the pain on infested ancients.

[Shelter92]

Level 10.

I'v seen some really High critical hits on grineer (Headshot's)

Also its pretty cool that you impale enemies on the walls plus dismembering them.

[Anarties]

My Dread hits 15k on Grineer and Corpus...

 

If that is bad then I need to go take a cold shower.

[Leuca]

My only issue with Dread is that its slashing damage is really only amazing against infested, which don't really need one-hit weapons to be properly dealt with. It's not that Dread is bad; it's just irrelevant. In super late game it's not gonna take out those Grineer/Corpus Heavies, which is what you want a sniping weapon to do.

[Yefrign]

its still a really good bow. one of the best

[Detheroc]

Use it against infested and it is amazing.

Why would anyone use a bow vs a swarm of angry, fastmoving infested? Thats illogical.

[shut]

Better crit damage than the Paris Prime, and a damage type that's effective against Grineer and very effective against Infested.

 

If you want to kill Corpus with it, then that's perfectly fine. Just mod it for magnetism and you're good to go. The huge crit damage advantage over other bows will make up for its shortcomings in physical damage type, easily. Don't forget that supereffective elementals scale from it too.

[Vernoc]

Use it against infested and it is amazing.

it´s ok, nothing amazing, but ok

[lautalocos]

Why would anyone use a bow vs a swarm of angry, fastmoving infested? Thats illogical.

because even a quick shot kills the infested, and because it goes trough enemies, you end up killing many enemies with one shot.

[Xaiux]

Dread with a thunderbolt + multishot build is amazing. Add reload + fire speed, and you have constant silent explosions. Serration means that those are strong, and kill all the things.

[Hydrium]

People still haven't learned how to use the new damage system. I've hit up to 20k with Dread, 12-13k on grineer/corpus.

 

The weapon is fine, people are bad.

[Raanaar]

Out of the bows I tried so far, Despair was the most fun.

 

Have to try this new one yet, but bows are not for me in this game. e.e

Edited November 29, 2013 by Christo92K

[Leuca]

Better crit damage than the Paris Prime, and a damage type that's effective against Grineer and very effective against Infested.

The better crit damage meant little in Damage 1.0 because Dread didn't ignore armor like Paris Prime, and it doesn't even exist in Damage 2.0; they have the same crit damage bonus now.

 

Its damage type is effective against *light* grineer while the Paris Prime tends to be effective against all grineer. Also as of right now, bows are an inferior weapon against infested because of their slow nature.

[MegpoidBeetle]

was my first drop from Stalker, and I have been using it till now. Totally a great weapon against most enemies and totally worth a potato (for me, at least)

[fatpig84]

I use the dread when playing Nova.

Clear the little fellows with the side arm, see ancients, MPrime them then put an arrow into their knee.

 

Beautiful (and no, I am NOT talking about the explosions, its the numbers).

Edited November 29, 2013 by fatpig84

[Mal-content]

Bows in general are largely irrelevant to gameplay.  They have all of the physics problems inherent to real life bows (you have to lead a target, the arrow has travel time, etc.) but absolutely no bonus that makes up for the shortcomings.  Yes, you can use Thunderbolt and do a little bit of splash damage, which mostly only tickles anything but light infested and not even them at high levels.  That is gimmicky.  A good sniper rifle, such as Vectis, is now the clear winner in single target damage.  Nothing compares.

 

If you're in a real mission as designed, odds are that you have far too many targets to shoot at and the bows are all too slow to effectively replace any rifles.  Punch through doesn't get you there either.  There really should be a major reason to use a bow over a sniper rifle, even if no technical reason for such a scenario exists with real life technology or they will always be relegated to looking pretty on your back and your sidearm or melee is perpetually in your hand.  Leading a target from a long distance out is an actual challenge and that challenge should be rewarded somehow in the gameplay.

Edited November 29, 2013 by Mal-content

[Achronus]

I think that the Bad that a lot of people have been talking about comes down to:

 

My Uber (fill in weapon here) is no longer insta-gibbing EVERYTHING! Whine Whine Whine...

 

Should DE have implemented the system 2.0 as is? I wouldn't have.

 

But the Dread Bow is a wonderful bow; it just isn't: OMNI-BOW-OF-UBER-LEET-DOOM-TO-ALL-MERE-MORTALS

 

Truly I wonder at DE's implementation of The Impact/Puncture/Slash mechanics.

Why doesn't Slash shred Ligh Grineer and Infested AND Corpus Suits?

 

I get not the Robots, but Those techs really aught to have the body take FULL slash dmg; it's only a suit after-all not armor.

[qqchurch]

Haven't tested yet on Lv30+ Grineer, but Dread + Corrosive seemed to work well in Lv20~25 Grineer:

 

[Silver_Fox75]

Well i have a potato laying around, is it worth one?

[EdBazokatone]

Well i have a potato laying around, is it worth one?

Yes it is, if you like bows and like to snipe. but if you want to be the best sniper you could be regardless of the weapon, then the answer is no, get the vectis and throw it the potato.

With my potatoed dread and his two base polarities I'm criting for 35k vs grineer, and it's far from being maxed (without split chamber). In T3 the crits are about the same because you probably would have some buff like roar o mprime, and it's enough to one shot heavies in the last wave.

 

just in case

[Leuca]

 

Yes it is, if you like bows and like to snipe. but if you want to be the best sniper you could be regardless of the weapon, then the answer is no, get the vectis and throw it the potato.

With my potatoed dread and his two base polarities I'm criting for 35k vs grineer, and it's far from being maxed (without split chamber). In T3 the crits are about the same because you probably would have some buff like roar o mprime, and it's enough to one shot heavies in the last wave.

 

just in case

 

I have a strong feeling that these super high crits we keep seeing are a bug in the damage system.

[LordMelvin]

Corpus DO take full damage from slash, or at least they've got barely any armor. I still use dread since there aren't a lot of sniper weapons that use slash damage and I'm not too keen on sticking Nova in the path of level 30 chargers and the cryopod.