Talk:Weapons/@comment-78.98.40.225-20150907162529/@comment-24055167-20150907184329

"the splinter pistol has higher damage output than the heavy crossbow"

What a great example. You forgot about bolts piercing enemies. How do you suggest to put that into a DPS value that measures damage output ? Single target DPS makes no sense. It made you think that Splinter Pistol deals more damage than Heavy Crossbow which isn't true if the bolt pierces, splinters can't. Same thing would go for any other AOE weapon that you would compare with a weapon that has higher DPS and can't deal damage to multiple enemies.

This DPS value would need another layer of explanation for every damage type... like you said some damage you can't understand without knowing how it works. I don't feel like adding more explanations to every weird damage type just so you further confuse yourself with an inaccurate DPS value that doesn't include AOE damage is worth it.

And i won't do it for some weapons so the page is filled with "?". It's either every weapon or none. I will do it if i see a way of doing it correctly and currently i don't.