Looking for tips about modding the Dread.

[Talvimyr]

Hey, everyone.

I'm looking for some pointers in modding my dread to better take on high level enemies. At present, it normally takes upwards of 3/4 arrows to kill high level lancers (70-100). Closer to six to seven to kill bombards (Same level), and enemies of a similar caliber. My current mod set-up is this:

Split Chamber | Serration | Point Strike | Fanged Fusillade
Vital Sense | Speed Trigger | Malignant Force | Stormbringer

Is there anything I should replace/modify?

Thanks!

[EGDestro]

well its a ok build if you can get a dread riven mod  after this i would toll it for crit chance and either slash or crit damage what ever comes first 

 

at this time i am using 

 

Split Chamber | Serration | Point Strike | Fanged Fusillade
Vital Sense | Speed Trigger  dread riven mod with 114 crit chance and +95 slash damage and for my last mod i either use bladed rounds or argon scope and it does the trick  

[holysnir]

I used two forma and put these mods:

Serration

Spilt chamber 

Heavy caliber 

Point strike 

Stormbringer

Maglinent force

Vital sense 

Speed trigger 

[S0V3REiGN]

I would replace fanged with infected clip and malignant force with blades rounds. 

[Gorila_Azul]

I'd replace Fanged Fusillade with Vile Acceleration (the loss in damage is barely noticeable and the increase in DPS makes up for it) and Malignant Force with Infected Clip.

[(PSN)maso_sage-mode]

9 hours ago, 1Archangel117 said:

Hey, everyone.

I'm looking for some pointers in modding my dread to better take on high level enemies. At present, it normally takes upwards of 3/4 arrows to kill high level lancers (70-100). Closer to six to seven to kill bombards (Same level), and enemies of a similar caliber. My current mod set-up is this:

Split Chamber | Serration | Point Strike | Fanged Fusillade
Vital Sense | Speed Trigger | Malignant Force | Stormbringer

Is there anything I should replace/modify?

Thanks!

i use vile acceleration insted of speed trigger :) i use 2x 90 elemental damage 

[(PSN)joshw1400]

2 hours ago, S0V3REiGN said:

I would replace fanged with infected clip and malignant force with blades rounds. 

This is what I use too. As long as you hit the enemy in the head(especially with bladed rounds activated) you ca pretty much one shot them.

EDIT: I use vile acceleration instead of speed trigger.

Edited November 28, 2016 by (PS4)joshw1400
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[Talvimyr]

Thanks for all of your help, everyone! I'll try testing a build with infected clip/vile acceleration in the Simulacrum asap.

[KnaveOfSwords]

Personally, I haven't bothered with worrying about RoF too much, as Dread more-or-less only gets used for stealth runs where I can count on having time to line up each shot (either because enemies haven't been alerted yet, or because I'm running an invisible Loki or Ivara)

Currently, I have 2 set-ups for my Dread.

Both of them start with: Serration, Split Chamber, Vital Sense, and Point Strike.

From there, the first one goes with 3 of the element+status mods (usually High Voltage, Malignant Rounds, and Thermite rounds to give corrosive+heat, but against corpus, I'll reshuffle them to magnetic+toxin, and switching out High Voltage for Rime Rounds gives you viral and heat for grineer who've been stripped of armor) and Hammer Shot.  This gives good crits and a high status chance, with spots for 3 elemental mods to customize for the enemies you'll be facing.  

The second goes with Argon Scope, Bladed Rounds, and 2 of the elemental+status mods (usually high voltage and malignant for corrosive).  Less status chance, one less element, and a lower crit multiplier when not aiming, but as long as argon scope and bladed rounds have proc'd recently enough, this gives a 6.8x multiplier, and nearly guaranteed red crits while aiming.  I like this one for assassination missions.  The various other enemies provide opportunities to trigger the two Acolyte mods, and then I focus on the boss until I need to refresh them.

[(XBOX)SweatyPick3L]

My dread setup without my dread riven one, two hit heavys at lvl 105

Serration, Vital sense, Argon scope, split chamber, elemental 90% x2, point strike, vile acceleration. 

* with my riven its and extra %114 crit chance and 2.8 punch thru i replaced vile with my riven..

Edited December 17, 2016 by (XB1)FCastle74

[(XBOX)X0 DaRkMaStEr X]

I set up my dread using cold +  toxin dual stat mods, fanged fusillade, argon scope, multishot and more status.

 

while yes I understand, you may be asking "but dread is a crit weapon,why status and damage???" the simple answer is it allows the dread to potentially one shot most foes, this is because the stupid amount of slash gives a good chance to proc the slash, with the multishot and viral status the status will be up to about the 50% margin, the enemy will have their maximum health reduced to 50% of what it was, and bleeding out.

[ashrah]

this is what i use serration.split chamber.point strike.vital sense. vile acceleration . Fanged Fusillade .stormbringer.infected clip...slash procs doing lot of dmg..