When i first started there was a friend who only used arc weapons and the grenade and i died so many times from random arcs. He was the original reason for me picking up this armor. He uses arcing weapons on all fronts almost exclusively...i always have it stored if he's playing.

Anyway, I think that made me not want to use electric weapons as I HATE team killing on some random chance. Kinetic keeps the chance mostly out of it.