Pistoleer Archive

I read the FAQ and was wondering does the pistol speed have any affect on the time for special attacks? If it doesn't then Slicing for greater Damage range would be more valuable. But if it did then Pistol Speed would be good too if not more valuable. I wasn't sure so if someone can test or elaborate on Pistol speed and it's affect on the cooldown time on special moves.

PS: I still like Stopping shot over fan shot due to the greater likely hood of kill med low level creatures in one shot.

Yes

Each special has a speed modifier anda damage modifier.

Lets say special UBER_FIRE is 4x damage and 2x speed.

If your guns speed (after your pistol skill) is .7, you will be capped at 1.0 seconds for normal shots. You can't get faster than 1 sec. But, when using UBER_FIRE, you will be doing 4x damage of normal shots and shooting twice as slow, so you will be shooting at 1.4 (.7 x 2)

At higher speeds you'll probably do more DPS with damage slice. At lower speeds, speed slice seems to give greater speed. It really depends on all three things, your speed, your weapon speed, your special attack (or average of your favorites).

I think I'll post a chart that shows weapon speeds, Special attacks, Pistol Speed, so people can pick and choose their optimum. Not that I like min-maxing...oh wait, yes I do

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GrikkGrakk wrote:
That'd be awesome Jaegen... Even just a chart showing the speeds of the special attacks would make my day! =D

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