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Base Weapon Properties

Base Bullet Damage

Base Bullet Damage is the amount of damage your Hero deals with no items. This value is unique to each hero and increases automatically as you level up through Boons.

Spreadshots

Spreadshots allow certain weapons to fire multiple bullets at once (such as shotguns or shurikens). In these cases, all calculation rules apply to every individual bullet.

Drifter Is an exception to this, where the same amount of bullet damage is dealt to a target regardless of how many pellets hit per shot.

Piercing shots

Paige‘s weapon’s shots pierce through enemies and can hit multiple enemies per projectile, disappearing only when they hit a map surface. However, they do not deal headshot bonus damage, but can proc headshot items.

The Doorman‘s weapon’s shots also pierce enemies. Unlike Paige’s, they can deal headshot damage but deal half damage to all enemies hit after the first.

Melee Damage

Melee Damage scales with Weapon Damage by 50%. However, Melee Damage is not considered Weapon Damage, thus effects that block Weapon Damage such as Metal Skin have no effect against melee unless noted otherwise.

Combat Modifiers

Damage Falloff

Damage Falloff reduces damage based on distance. All heroes have a Falloff Range in which damage is linearly reduced from 100% to 10%.

When aiming at an enemy hero, a dot on their health bar indicates the percentage of damage you deals:

Crit Multiplier

Aiming for the head deals increased damage. Troopers, Guardians, and Heroes have a weakpoint hitbox that receives 1.65x bullet damage when hit.

Crit Multiplier=1+[(0.65×Crit Bonus Scale)×Crit Resist]

The following heroes cannot deal critical damage:

• Graves
• Paige (though she can proc headshot item effects)

Crit Bonus Scale is a stat that modifies critical damage for certain heroes.

Base Crit Bonus Scale Stats

Abilities that can deal critical damage have different critical modifiers. This replaces the +65% multiplier of base weapons.

Ability Crit Damage Stats

Target Modifiers

Bullet Resistance

: Main article: Damage Resistance

Incoming damage is reduced by the target’s Bullet Resist and increased by the attacker’s Bullet Resist Reduction. These stats stack multiplicatively. For a detailed breakdown on how multiple items stack, see the main page.

Increased Bullet Damage

Increased Bullet Damage is a debuff inflicted on enemies. It multiplies the total amount of damage they take from you. Because this is applied at the end of the calculation, it also increases the effectiveness of your Flat Weapon Damage.

Flat Weapon Damage

Flat Weapon Damage is an extra amount of damage obtained through certain hero abilities.

Flat Weapon Damage is not increased by your "Weapon Damage %" multiplier. It is an additive source added to your total after the percentage multiplier is applied to your base. However, it is still affected by Damage Falloff, Bullet Resist, and Crit Multipliers.

Weapon Damage Formula

The final damage dealt by a bullet is determined by multiplying your base stats, your item bonuses, and various situational modifiers.

Final Damage=[(Base DMG×DMG Multiplier)+Flat Bonus]×Falloff×Resistances×Crit Multiplier

Weapon Damage Scaling

Some abilities scale with Weapon Damage.

For most Weapon Damage scaling abilities, they only scale based on the "Bonus Weapon Damage" stat, which is granted by items and Weapon shop investments (see list below). This includes abilities such as Venator‘s Consecrating Grenade, Gutshot and Ira Domini.

Paradox‘s Kinetic Carbine is an exception, since it scales with her Base Weapon Damage (counting as a full burst shot), and thus increases with Boons. Melee Damage scaling abilities also scale with Weapon Damage, since Melee Damage scales with Weapon Damage (by 50%).

Sources

All weapon items provide an automatic increase in Weapon Damage based on your total soul investment in that category:

The following items grant increased weapon damage:

• Headshot Booster deals +45 bonus Weapon Damage with headshots.
• Monster Rounds increases Weapon Damage against NPCs by +25%.
• Berserker increases Weapon Damage by +7% per stack for sustaining damage.
• Headhunter additionally deals +75 x4 bonus Weapon Damage with headshots.
• Intensifying Magazine increases Weapon Damage to a maximum of 45% after continuously firing.
• Opening Rounds increases Weapon Damage by +25% against enemies above 50% health.

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