Pistoleer Archive
Thread: Uber Scatter Seeking Your Slicing Advice
ViolentAngel wrote:
How does eveyone know these damage/speed caps on weapons anyway? Where do I read up on these?
From the weaponsmith forum, I've collated all the data they have and put it in the "Making more pistols useful" sticky thread.
eapers wrote:
Seeing as critical slices are considered unreliable at best...
I personally have the crit strike slice on many of my pistols and I get a Critical at least once during most battles that last longer than about 30 seconds. Do not discount it. From my understanding, it stacks with the critical mods of whatever attack is used...i.e. Critical Strike.
Adefo-Oami wrote:
Badger, when you say that 1.72 would be the cap for speed. Do you mean to say you can't slice past that? I beg to differ, because my pistol's base speed is 1.67.
I've heard from a WS on my server that 0.8 mod speed is the cap for pistols. Don't know where he got his info, but /shrug.
It shouldn't be possible to slice past 1.73, but there is a bug that lets you do it. Do you have a screenshot at all?
BadgerSmaker wrote:
Adefo-Oami wrote:
Badger, when you say that 1.72 would be the cap for speed. Do you mean to say you can't slice past that? I beg to differ, because my pistol's base speed is 1.67.
I've heard from a WS on my server that 0.8 mod speed is the cap for pistols. Don't know where he got his info, but /shrug.
It shouldn't be possible to slice past 1.73, but there is a bug that lets you do it. Do you have a screenshot at all?
Weaponsmiths have told me it isn't an exploit of any kind, that slicing just ignores the speed cap
Adefo-Oami wrote:
Weaponsmiths have told me it isn't an exploit of any kind, that slicing just ignores the speed cap
BloodMonk wrote:
well..first of all: putting the speed cap on modded speed would be impossible...most ws do not have any combat skills, so effectively there would be no speedcap.
secondly: there were plenty ws's selling power-up sliced weapons untill they fixed it, also claiming it was not an exploit
The cap should be on base speed, not modded.
there's a hard speed cap of 1 second on all weapons regardless of what the stated speed says - whether it's mod'd or power'd up.
so - even if your gun speed says .79 seconds...guess what? it's really 1 second.
you're damage cap'd on this, so slicing it isn't an option.
you're SAC cap'd on it- and that isn't a slice option.
the mod'd speed is already very very low...even with a 100% damage slice, the best you'll get is about 1.05 mod'd speed which isn't that far off from what you already have.
your only real option is to go 100% crit slice on it - use an SAC powerup.
i GUESS another alternative would be to go 100% speed slice with a damage powerup...but i'm all about the action.