Guide The Best Dps Weapons In The Game (it's Back!)

I never knew Slider was a thing. Apparently it's untradeable. Where does one get it?

 

Orange Wybel drops it

 

Just gonna go grab my Mythics....wait...I don't have any....

 

Okay, then i think they forgot to divide by two when calculating for ethereal then. (before they updated) they had ethereal at 661 i think, but i got 280.5 when i did it, because i hadnt noticed that they already did it.

 

Tisaun's Proof gets Very Fast/Super Fast attack speeds when including its tier attack speed, placing it above many spears.

 

:(

 

+attack speed doesn't change the spell multiplier

 

They are just talking about Melee dps

 

Aren't they talking about melee dps because they don't include raw spell dmg bonuses and the like.

 

Sweet baby jesus on a stick. I decided to calculate the highest possible melee dps with cata, and...

With Blood Moon, Chest of Inept, Thunder Sanctuary, Shaggy Boots, 2 Black Rings, Knucklebones, and an Electric Torc (all max) you end up with (including dex bonus)...

17326 DPS (1715 neutral, 15611 thunder)

GOD DAMN. That's insane. I mean, you'll have less than 1k health, and even if you do get more, Knucklebones will take care of that after a few hits, but if you want to become a suicidal lawnmower then this build is your thing.

Though Knucklebones can easily be replaced with a 17% thunder damage item (name escapes me) and if you're really not feeling the 1k health thing, Chest of Inept can go away for a Leo or adamantium and still be OP as all hell

 

Very useful information, I will be referring back to this thread every once in awhile thanks!

 

and wheres Dodegar's Ultimate Weapon

 

Interesting information and all but DPS isn't a great stat for me as a basis for deciding on a weapon's merits.

Point #1) My aim sucks. A high ROF (attack speed) is required for me to counter act my crappy accuracy. T'is not a good measure for damage output in my case, but a way to ensure I do some damage in a timely manner.

Point #2) Damage Output is only about half of what I need to know to determine if a weapon is going to fit my desires. More damage is always better than low, obviously. And as mentioned above, speed matters to me, but so do the different abilities (IDs) the bow imparts/modifies and as well as the number of slots and how all of it interacts with the rest of my kit.

I've been collecting all the Morph Set items as the core of my kit. It gives pretty generic across the board bonuses, most notably in terms of skill points ([WHINE]assuming they ever fix the bug that keeps the set bonus skill points to register correctly[/WHINE]). So I have to get my Regen/Steal/Spell/Melee/Walking Speed bonuses from the non-Morph item slots (currently just helm and ring #2) and weapon bonuses. Thus a moderatly damaging weapon with abilities and/or bonuses that cover holes in what the rest of my kit lacks beats out a more damaging one most of the time.

I'm not saying the DPS stat is useless, just that it focuses too narrowly to fully inform you what value a particular weapon brings to your build.

-DavicusPrime

 

thats without powders
probs gonna be like 19k thunder with powders
or did you calculate it with powders?

 

All of this is a function of average melee damage/hit * attack speed (which I just think of as rate of fire).

It does not account for spells, poison, powder effects/specials, melee and spell damage bonuses (raw or percentage), elemental damage bonus from skill points or gear, the target's elemental defenses, or anything else that may pertain to damage infliction.

It should be seen only as a stat showing the average unmodified damage a weapon could inflict in melee per second assuming all shots/swings strike home, and neither you, nor your opponent have any bonuses or defenses to modify it.

-DavicusPrime

 

Bump!
Gonna be adding little mini lists for each element!

 

True although I'm not sure how you would approach that

 

Agreed. Too many variables to deal with.

My posts were trying to show the incompleteness of this calculation for deciding which weapon is most effective for your build/play style etc., but at least it's a stat we can calculate consistently.

If you want to sort out what the actual DPS is with all the possible modifiers and bonuses, go for it. But it'll be pretty complicated with little added benefit, in my opinion anyway. Translation: feel free to ignore everything I've been saying up to this point.

-DavicusPrime