Critical Endorsements

assault A
criticals, accuracy, clip
vs
assault B
rof, accuracy, clip

no upgrades.

test was done at a range that no bullets would miss.

assault B will survive with about 1/6 health.

the big thing about crit vs rof is that crit is a base damage increase, while rof is effectively a larger damage increase at the cost of a smaller clip size.

in testing, i also found that it was a tossup with passive 2 on assault A and a stock assault B

The first problem I see with your test is that you're going to miss in a realistic scenario.

If you take a look at rate of fire gold is almost identical to rate of fire silver for most classes and weapons. Meanwhile you'll lose about 50% effectiveness or more with criticals from gold to silver. From what I see in the assault guides, armor is much more popular than accuracy. Here again I have to ask why you have used accuracy in your testing if the range was set for a 0% miss chance.

So really you should compare:

Armor, Rof, clip
vs
Criticals, armor, clip
or
Armor, criticals,clip.

my setup was just general dps, not for a real-life scenario.

Ok so basically you're saying in an unrealistic scenario..... criticals are better than rate of fire.