Weapon DPS Charts (UPDATED for 1.06)

Fun with numbers!

Let's assume you bought packs in order, so Basics for Commons, Advanced for Uncommons, etc. Then we can calculate the cost to rank up each gun to X. From there, we can calculate the Credit Cost Per DPS. (lower is better)

And here it is:



Random observations:
* Not surprisingly, the Common weapons top the list. But look at that Widow! Its massive DPS coupled with the fact that it is only Uncommon makes its Cost/DPS remarkably low.
* Isharay and Lanat are actually theoretically lower Cost/DPS than the Vanquisher, at the same rarity tier.
* The Sweeper which we know is one of the best guns in the game (/s) costs over 2,000 Credits/DPS.
* The Piranha and Hurricane are legitimately good guns but you pay a massive premium for their damage: over 6,000 Credits/DPS and over 9,000 (heh!) Credits/DPS respectively.
* Valkyrie and P.A.W.: loooooooooooool at > 20,000 Credits/DPS.

Note - this is just for fun. I know I am making a lot of flawed assumptions.

Raw data is here if you want to mess around with it: drive.google.com/open?id=1HQ95WHxVp4TYXzmiXdc48eGZgMZzHRRG52dQ1O3sieY

That would be quite hard to actually calculate for. Do we even know the headshot multiplier? It seems like it is 2.0 this time around.

I would have to account for accuracy and likeliness for the weapon to headshot and what you are shooting at. For example a berzerker would be quite easy to headshot compared to a sharpshooter. I may be able to do it manually if I ignore the enemy but I don't know accurate it will be.

i tried it. i liked it. if i hadnt gotten disconnected it would have been an enjoyable game.

Hardcoresalmon RULES!

With all due respect to the devs, what they said may be based on how something was INTENTED to work based on a design spec from months/years ago.

The only way to know what code does is to execute the code and/or test its output.

Yes! Exactly! It's stupid, the best weapons, Vanquisher and Hurricane, require very little effort. 

If there really is a bonus, it is probably a small bonus, hence largely unnoticeable. I would love to see that bonus increased to something like 50% bonus against shields. That would certainly make remnant weapons more attractive when considering weapon loadouts, especially for biotic characters. It reminds me of biotic characters equipping the acolyte gun in ME3MP primarily to strip shields quickly.

Best weapons for soldier builds with the sustained fire evo and high priming potential:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d4fl5LtFNcmIndunUgjc3K8tG-uDuQsA9zM5zgWVgPg/edit?usp=sharing

notes:
--only kept rapid fire weapons due to sustained fire evo of munitions training tree, and the ability to prime quickly with elemental ammo for optimal damage
--red font: use as secondary weapon only as a double clip lasts ~5 seconds only
--black font: use as primary as when needed and safely positioned, you can melt an elite for most of a 10 second period
--raptor eliminated because too heavy for a secondary weapon, and long reload time for such a small time before reload
--best primary for damage is the Hurricane
--best secondary is sidewinder or thokin based on preference, i prefer the sidewinder for headshots from further away, and like to switch often
--anyting below the damage per ten sec of the Revenant/Rozerad eliminated

I case you do sir, this may help though y'all have unlocked an ass-ton of data getting involved with the Reddit guys and may have moved on from this format entirely - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d_YezAcp3z1BN4jnXd-mqvyPrsKMFqrzyLnFz7N99vA/edit#gid=91432962. I had to use linear interpolation to estimate the Rank II to Rank IX for the guns that got balance changed in Patch 1.06 and that will be the case until the game files have been rescanned and published by hello_isaac, et al. Otherwise everything you see has come straight from games files, including reload times (no need to assume anymore). The only exception is the weakpoint multipliers, where I either used what you guys said in the numerical damage thread or assumed 1.4 where the gun has no numerical test for multiplier, because weakpoint multipliers don't appear in the game file dumps.



I made this version so that I can easily and directly compare DPS, etc. for all guns at all ranks not just Rank I or Rank X, because that matters a huge amount when deciding loadout and I decided to share it here. Hopefully this helps, or if you don't want to maintain yours anymore, I'll keep maintaining mine (or I can let you do it all!! )

I guess I'm trying out the hornet today.