Carbineer Archive
Thread: which gun is better?
DH17 75-215 damage, 1.7 speed
DH17 97-279 damage, 2.2 speed
and say i have two powerups, a max/min damage and a speed. Which gun would benefit from which powerup the most? Thanks.
Well here's the math..
Carbine 1No powerup =126.4 dps (damage per second)
Carbine 1 with a 33% max powerup = 168.2 dps
Carbine 1 with a 33% speed powerup = 165.3 dps
Carbine 2 No powerup = 126.8 dps
Carbine 2 with a 33% max powerup = 168.6 dps
Carbine 2 with a 33% speed powerup = 165.0 dps
This depends on your current speed modifier. If you have a high bonus to speed, i.e. you have +45 or greater, i would choose the high damage carbine. However if you are lower on the tree or not yet a carbineer i would go for speed.
To Taladien - The dps values people calculate aren't usually actual in game damage done per second, just a base value of the gun that's usually calculated simply by ((min damage + max damage) / 2 ) / delay. It should be pretty accurate for comparing guns to eachother as long as there's no weird code making weapons hit more for their maximum damage than their minimum damage, or the other way around.
Like for example your elite would be ((126+226)/2) / 2.9 = 60.7dps, compared to the first DH17 carbine in the original post, ((75-215)/2) / 1.7 = 85.3dps. That's not counting AR bonuses or limitations due to speed caps though, which can of course make a huge difference
Although that's not what the calculations there are, I cant figure out where those dps values came from 
And my answer to the original question would be the second carbine with a damage powerup all the way. It's more base dps even without any speed mods, and the difference is even bigger as you get higher up.