Weaponsmith Archive

Unfortunately, there isn't one answer to that question. It matters what profession you are, what Combat Level you are, and what your fighting preferences are. If you want a rough, and I mean very rough estimate of how good a weapon is, you can look at it's base DPS listed when you examine a weapon. As said, this is a very rough way to tell, though. Also look at the SAC at the bottom of the weapon's statistics. Generally, you want this to be below 105 for decent weapons. Below 90 for any good weapons, and below 85 for really good weapons. Your base dps should be around 300 or higher.

As said, these are rough, rough, rough, rough, rough. Max damage tends to effect your actual damage output more than DPS does. For PVP, the damage range becomes important as largest ranges means more mitigation. For solo fighting when you are spamming lots of specials, you are going to need the lowest SAC weapon you can find.

There are probably a lot of good posts stickied on your professions forums about new weapons and special for whatever profession you are. This is a rough estimation of what you might want to look for, but until you actually go out and use these weapons, you may not know exactly what you need.

---

Willbaby wrote:
its not to hard....EVERYTHING IS 300 DPS, or thereabouts, welocme to our new unique world

---

It's rather more involved than that. DPS isnt the end all be-all though it can be used as a guage on the quality of a weapon. A 300+ DPS weapon with 120+ SAC wont do you much good though. Ideally you want a mix of Low SAC (Which varries from weapon to weapon type. As stated above yes, Commando weapons, lowest SAC is 100. But for example rifles I think cap at 85, and i've seen pistols with lower SAC than that)

Ideally you want to look for much the same stats as before CU. High damage, Low speed (bout 2.0 or less is a good number) and low SAC. Meet the firs two requirements and your DPS is going to be pretty damn high anyway.

Message Edited by nateccs on 07-15-2005 02:18 PM