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I am either going to get the box with BodyShot 3 next, or the one with Stopping shot next. My question is, what is the difference? I know the body shot will do lots more dmg to the health pool. Is the damage done by stopping shot as much or more? I'm assuming that stopping shot is random pool hit, is this correct? Are there any other effects that happen with stopping shot? Does it give a state or posture change or anything, or just lots of damage?

Thanks

There are no state effects for either shot. Both are all just damage.

Our correspondent has done tests that show Stopping Shot does 55% damage to the health pool on average and the rest to action and mind pools.

Say you've got a 100 point base attack. The damage modifier for Stopping Shot is 4.7. Your attack would be 470 points. 55% of thatis 259 points hitting health.

The damage modifier for Body Shot3 is 2.5. 2.5 * 100 is 250 points hitting health.

So you're better off with Stopping Shot because it will hit health slightly more (on average) with the added benefit of putting some damage on the other pools as well.

Hmm OK thanks, for the info. Thats what I wanted to know. I think I'll go with stopping shot then. Especially since I'm getting more into PvP.

Now I'm not on this forum much, so I'm sure I miss a lot, and this has been said. But how come all the pistoleer specails don't do much more then just extra damage? I mean stopping should do like a posture change, and disarming shot should do a delay, to represent them losing the weapon out of there hand. You know, disarming? Fan shot should be hitting more then one target, thus a fan shot, fanning out hitting more then one. It seems the there was good intent meant for the pistal specials, but all they did was up the damage multiplier.

Stopping shot is definitely a more damaging shot. Fan shot does near the same damage, and does hit multiple targets, so long as they are close enough together.