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Hmm... i actually didn't notice this yet... when i used a the basic charge shot, i didn't watch the numbers so closely... and actually used the charge shot very little.

Anyways, this could possibly be that the normal chargeshot displays the damage you actually inflict and the bug that only one portion of the inflicted damage is displayed in the combat spam. (This was confirmed some time ago and still seems to be true, chargeshot hits several locations on the target but only one of the hits is displayed in your combat messages. The target actually takes the damage from all hits.)

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Sylow wrote:

Hmm... i actually didn't notice this yet... when i used a the basic Scatter Shot, i didn't watch the numbers so closely... and actually used the Scatter Shot very little.

Anyways, this could possibly be that the normal Scatter Shot displays the damage you actually inflict and the bug that only one portion of the inflicted damage is displayed in the combat spam. (This was confirmed some time ago and still seems to be true, Scatter Shot hits several locations on the target but only one of the hits is displayed in your combat messages. The target actually takes the damage from all hits.)

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Fixed.

Argl... heck yea... thanks for fixing that, seems like i messed up badly... guess i had my confused 5 minutes (i have them 12 times per hour) while writing that posting...

Cool, I thought it was useless since I could do 870 damage with improved leg hit, why would I use Improved Scatter to do 255 hehe

I'll start using it more often

Thanks for the info

You mean Scatter works like "several Ranged attacks, for eg., in one single hit but it only shows one of these"?

How can we be sure it is worth more than Leg Shot? (which does very nice damage)

If we must, I can test the damage in a PvP setting.....it is quite simple, just look at the loss of HEALTH, not the Combat Log.....

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TAfirehawk wrote:
If we must, I can test the damage in a PvP setting.....it is quite simple, just look at the loss of HEALTH, not the Combat Log.....

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Well i havent done an official test but i have ben using scatter shot to alternate with my legshot for a few weaks. I have my target ham across most of my screen under my toolbar. This lets me see all the status effects and buffs etc on the mob. Also it lets me see a nice view of the health pool loss per shot. I have not done any official testing but every time i try and watch the health drop from my shots....It seems to drop about as much as leg shot. Id even want to say sometimes more and sometimes less but normaly im a bit wraped up in the actual fighting...

Only being a carbineer i dont have a lot of specials to alternate with leg shot.....Dont want an aoe all the time and well charge shot would just be silly.

My personal testing roughly confirmed the information given on the swg-wiki.

Scattershot inflicts similar damage to rapid fire, thus does alittle bit less than legshot. It has a better damage to action cost ratio than rapid fire, so currently you're well advised to switch between legshot and scattershot.

On scattershot doing more damage than legshot, i never would have noticed that. Sometimes i had the feeling that scattershot did more damage in pvp against the cyberarm-people, which would very well match the description of the ability. Due to PvP usually being a bit busy, i was never able to really confirm it, though.

I've started using it, and the chunk of health that comes off of the target is comparible to Leg shot, so its obviously doing more damage than what it says it is. Can't be sure if its equal or less than leg shot though...