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Singing more praises to Blaster

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rekenne:
Your math on firing speed is very wrong.
First, there are diminishing returns on speed reductions. It's (speed)*.8*.8*.8, not -20% of original value each time. Also, DG does it as the average of the 2 speeds then with the penalty. Not the sum of.
So, yeah, if you find a Blaster, you could save the trait, but... In most cases, the dg works better

Anarchic Fox:
The bigger consideration is that you probably acquire DG long before you find the Blaster, if you're playing a pistol game.

Edit: Also, what's the chance of a pistol player using unmodded guns?

Zi:

--- Quote from: rekenne on January 18, 2009, 02:05 ---Your math on firing speed is very wrong.
First, there are diminishing returns on speed reductions. It's (speed)*.8*.8*.8, not -20% of original value each time. Also, DG does it as the average of the 2 speeds then with the penalty. Not the sum of.
So, yeah, if you find a Blaster, you could save the trait, but... In most cases, the dg works better

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From what was posted here: http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php?topic=1814.msg14396#msg14396, I believe that Son of a Gun acts differently, and actually gets better with more levels.  You can also test this by going >100% health, and firing off pistol shots and seeing how many shots you can fire before your health diminishes (with no levels of Badass), then dividing by 5 to get shots per second.  And summing then multiplying by 0.6 is the same as averaging and multiplying by 1.2, but is simpler.

Finally, I know that the pistol player will probably mod their pistols, but unless you have a significant amount of mods, the benefit of dualgunning Blaster and a pistol is still very small compared to the benefit you could derive from picking another trait.

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