Dmms x Aliens

I just sold my z4s and ultralights because Z4s lobes kept getting eaten up too fast and ultralights triggers kept breaking. Now I have two racks with C4s and totems, which I love. However I need to buy a .75,a .5, a .4 and a .1 to complete my third rack and I was thinking about trying something new. I used a friends rack in Yosemite with aliens and I really liked the feel of them, but I think her cams were an older model and I was wondering how the new aliens are compared to those. Also, I hear really good things about Dmms but saw some comments about them not lasting so long. What do you all think? Is it worth investing in aliens or dmms?

Lucky for you, there’s a “best micro cams” thread down just a couple in this forum. 

.4 to 1 is decidedly not micro nowadays. I have a set of tcu for as my third set of cams, and think they have a lot of versatility. They kinda suck in many ways, but fit in a lot of placements totems or c4s do not due to sizes being staggered and three lobe profile just behaving differently. They are also very light which helps fill another niche if you just want a handful of cams for an easy alpine climb.

You do realise almost all microcams have the same soft metal lobes, right? I'm afraid to say but you have just thrown money away and a different cam is unlikely to solve your problem. The only thing I could suggest would be to buy metolius, they offer the only micro cam that uses harder metal on their lobes. 

One of the many complaints about the X4's was that the metal was too hard and would skate out of polished placements, this is something they remedied with the Z4. Maybe you can find some X4's second hand. 

For the record, I'm team wild country, the zero friends are a bit floppy at 0.1 and 0.2 but any placement of these are delicate and nuanced anyway making the flop negligible. 

Since when .75, .5 and .4 are microcams?