Give Nichrome a try, I've recently switched over from Kanthal and it's better in every respect, it has a slightly lower resistance than Kanthal allowing for a couple more wraps, the extra coil surface area produces a slightly better flavor and increased vapor production...the biggest benefit I've discovered is less gunk build up making a very long lasting build.
It all comes full-circle. When some of us started, all we could get were pre-made cartos, clearos and other 510 style attys that were wound with--- yup, you guessed it, NiCr. Even the first rebuild able devices, folks were using NiCr. Then some builder decided to try Kanthal A1, and now the "next generation" of vapers/rebuilders all think that everything out there is/was Kanthal A1....sadly, if you look at what most people are using (outside of these forums which are a small micro community of all vapers), is pre-made coils in devices using, yup. NiCr. Simply, NiCr won't rust.
Strip the protective oil off of Kanthal A1 (I.e. Torching/dry burn) and let it take the boat ride from China, then distribution to store shelves to your home, and it will be either caked with aluminum oxide, brown with rust or both. NiCr coils would have an almost indefinite shelf life. Use an Atlantis? Yup NiCr.
Edit: the key thing that made Kanthal A1 so popular is the higher resistance, making it easier to build a coil that would perform decently and still be above the 1.2Ω min resistance that the high-tech regulated mods of 2013 could fire- definitely not the taste!
