Carbineer Archive

Is there any sense to having a speed modifier over +75 for a carbine user?

From what I understand of how the speed modifyer works it seems like there is no point to having over +75 to carbine speed. My calculation is this:

Speed of fire = delay on weapon x (1-(speed modifyer/100))

This would cause a carbine with a 4.0 speed and a modifier of +75 to have a speed reduction of 75%. This effectively makes the speed 1.0 (the max on any weapon)

Now this calculation is for the default attack. It does not take specials into account. However, if you have a speed modifyer over +75, say +100, do you fire specials faster?

Those of you with Master Carbineer, can you fire a cripiling shot as fast as a Carbineer/BH Carbinecharacter?

Yes the specials need to be taken into account with the calculations. They'll still fire slower than 1.0 with a 4.0 speed weapon at +75 speed mod.

So, to answer those.. Yeah, getting over that will make you fire faster with specials, (the point where it actually caps out with specials is a bit harder to determine since the exact modifiers for specials aren't documented accurately anywhere that I know of) and no, a master carbineer wont fire crippling shots as fast as a BH/carbineer.

i find that with the delay on my crippiling shot it is worthless on larger mobs... i can get to about 2500 with a crippiling shot, but i can get to around 1500 with full auto 2. i can do 2 full-auto's in the time that it takes me to do one crippiling shot. i was hoping to see CS as an uber powerfull leg shot, so as yo umay have guessed, i was really disapointed when i saw that i was hitting all stats. i jsut dont see the point for having it.

Thanks for the post Sarne. I definately need to get some good speed modifier tapes. I wil not have all the points to go BH and Carbineer.