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Actually I think you might be right, depending on your speed. If stopping shot has a x5 multiplier and BS3 has a 2.5x multiplier (I think), and you factor in that random HAM results in 55% Health damage, then Stopping Shot deals roughly 10% more health damage per shot. But there are 2 catches:

1), you aren't garaunteed that it will always work out. I've had random HAM bite me in the butt many, many times. I don't bother with it any more unless we are talking multiple targets with Fan Shot.

2) Stopping Shot will only deal 10% more health damage than BS3 if you are firing each of them at the speed cap.

Oh, and body shot 3 will deal 25% more damage than body shot 2 per shot, but it has a lower DPS unless you are pushing the speed cap.

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"...You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." biwan:
Former Pistoleer Correspondent (02/04/04 - 09/05/04)

Oh, and body shot 3 will deal 25% more damage than body shot 2 per shot, but it has a lower DPS unless you are pushing the speed cap.

I didn't even see this. Forget that some other multi pool shot does more damage to the one pool. BS3 should be doing more dmg then BS2, period. I tell you I switched back and forth, shooting at same mobs with same weapon, and didn't see a difference. Averaged 500 on BS2 and 550 on BS3. That is not 25%, and not worth the xp and skill points needed for BS3. I saw an almost double increase of dmg from BS1 to BS2.

I know I know, you all know this and have been saying it. But I finally found out formyself last night. I have had stopping shot for a few weeks now, and it was my main special for dmg output. Great special, even being a multi pool one. I got got BS 3 last night, and tried it out. After some surprise, I went back and used my BS 2. Umm there was no real difference in the amount of damage between BS 2 and BS 3. They both were averaging about 550 dmg to health pool. Isn't the next special of the same name supposed to do increased dmg? I know BS 2 did about twice the dmg of BS 1.

So I'm truely sad to say that I think I'll stick to Stoppping shot as my main special. It is not logical that a single pool special, does less dmg then a multi pool special of the same skill level. What's up with BS 3? Philo, what is the status of getting this, and as I understand it, our other specials fixed? This is really pathetic.

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Squidwalker wrote:

Oh, and body shot 3 will deal 25% more damage than body shot 2 per shot, but it has a lower DPS unless you are pushing the speed cap.

I didn't even see this. Forget that some other multi pool shot does more damage to the one pool. BS3 should be doing more dmg then BS2, period. I tell you I switched back and forth, shooting at same mobs with same weapon, and didn't see a difference. Averaged 500 on BS2 and 550 on BS3. That is not 25%, and not worth the xp and skill points needed for BS3. I saw an almost double increase of dmg from BS1 to BS2.

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Yup. Most of the Pistoleer specials are broken in some way...

I only use a few shots:

Bleeds, Stoping Shot, BodyShot2, PointBlankSingle2, meleedef1, Fanshot (although it's not supposed to do what it does if you read the description).

Did I miss anything? Everything else is, useless...

Ive seen my BS3 shots to be all across the board.. Im just using a non-krayt FWG5, sometimes I get hits inthe 100's, and sometimes (I think like 3 so far total) I can crank out some 800's.. But its usually 300-400ish... BS2 seems to be better for me, because its faster, and seems to havea tigher range of damage..

Lefae Earahoe