Crit or con. overload for atterax/gram prime

[The_Bloodsaber]

So I have been googling iterations of "best atterax build" and "best gram prime build" and they both seem to focus on crit. Some of the videos are pretty impressive, this one guy pulled off a 5.4k crit with his gram prime, but he had a riven on. I tend to have like a third of the mods these guys have, so I have to make due with what I have, and maybe that is my problem, because every build I put together, my condition overload builds ALWAYs out damage my crit builds. I don't have the rivens or maiming strike to do what they are doing in the videos, and I am wondering, what is the best I can do with my atterax and gram with "budget builds"? I mean I hate to see the crit go un-utilized, but there is nothing I have done so far that proves this is the way to go. 

 

My testing mostly consists of seeing how fast I can cut down 8 lvl 130 bombards. My Atterax condition overload build generally always kills one of them in at least 6 seconds, and atterax has the range to hit all 8 mobs at once. Gram does not have the range to hit them all at once, and therefore seems to suffer from being unable to lift off with combo multipliers. I imagine atterax is better for trash clearing and gram is better for single targets, but I am still not sure how the best way to build either should be. 

 

If anyone has any ideas about what I can do with what I have, the best mods I seem to have are; condition overload, primed reach, berserker, blood rush, the "sacrificial" mods, and all 4 60% status and 60% status chance mods. Oh, drifting contact too, though its not my favorite. Any suggestions and explanations would be welcome. 

 

 

[Oldskinzz]

Why not go for hybrid since the stats support both crit and status?

For Gram p: Ppp, drifting, 2x 60/60, blood rush, primed reach, berserker, condition o.

If you get a good riven, replace one of the above depending on what you're willing to sacrifice. I personally got a cc/cd riven which i replaced primed reach. Still figuring out if i like the reduced range but the damage is nice, red crits on every hit with the first combo tier.

For atterax you could probably do a similar build, lower crit and status stats but much better attack speed so faster melee combos. I don't use atterax much so that's just theorycrafting, someone else could probably advise a better suited build.

[0_The_F00l]

Those red Crit combo builds usually have maiming strike, a couple of complementing arcanes and a frame buff. 

What @Oldskinzzproposed is what I would suggest, though primed reach is going to be your replaceable mod that can have organ shatter / primed fever strike/ maiming strike /riven for more damage