Weapon DPS Charts (UPDATED for 1.06)

HAAAAAAAA!!!!! I knew the Hornet received a major boost!!!! It lives. My favorite caster weapon from ME3 LIVES!!!!

So yeah, the Disciple and the (Katana even) do have higher dps than the Ruzaad. As hilarious as that sounds at first, you're supposed to hit with every shot to out-dps the Ruzaad, and honestly for a shotgun I'd rather have higher damage per shot than per second.
I tested out more extensively (no pun intended) yesterday and the Disciple is still pretty shit, will pick the Ruzaad over that one every day.
And the Katana is a joke, it's like the ugly sister of the Disciple, shittier damage, one less round in the mag, shittier accuracy, same Rof and slighlty lighter in weight. No point using it pretty much ever.

Also, the Mattock is still shittier than the Predator. LMAO. Never mind that, was watching patch 1.05. duh.

Makes me wonder if Predator+turbocharge could do decent with a macro.

FYI - I did take the time to determine the max effective RoF for the burst weapons, based on the re-fire cooldown timers in the game files from hello_isaac. To make a long story short, the best any burst fire weapon can do in 1 second is 2 full bursts, period, so the effective RoF is much lower than stated RoF for all burst weapons thanks to the refire cool down mechanic. That mechanic is bs, imo.

I still can't believe the Hurricane was buffed.

Yeah the Hesh is pretty great.

At only one Rank higher than Piranha the Hesh has better DPS and DPC.  If I had a Piranha, I would still take the Hesh UNTIL I have the Prianha at the same Rank.

I believe smart choke works now and works on the Hesh specifically, since they claim to have changed the mechanic to a simple accuracy buff rather than tightening the spread (which would not have helped the Hesh anyway with it's plasma seeking rounds).

I love it on Gold with VG.

Yes, yes and YES!!!!

Thank you so much Hardcoresalmon!

You rock!

The Rozerad is a monster now. I'd much rather use that, than the Hurricane on the ranks I have those two, right now.
If you like automatic weapons, you should give it a go. Especially on the TC kits.

K. That worked pretty well JRandall0308 . Thx!

Yeah thanks for that.  Thinking is so hard and makes me head hurt.  :rage:

Is there any way for you to get other delays out of the game? (Time to first shot or "aiming time" or is that burst fire delay?)

They are both useful, imo.  Bodyshot stats would be the way to go; that way any headshots you happen across are just icing on the cake.  For those who are really good shots, they can load out around the headshot numbers, but for the rest of us, I think bodyshots give a better number to plan around, since the every-so-often weakpoint shot, will cancel out some of your misses, and help make up for RoF that one can't actually achieve.  DPS that my sheet shows reflects your absolute best but only holds for a very short time because it is the average DPS over a single clip. DPC tells you how much total damage you'll be able to output before needing to reload your magazine.  Soon I will add other statistics, such as average DPS when blowing all your ammo, starting from full at each Rank.  Also, I'll add maximum total damage for going from full ammo to 0 for each Rank.  I may add total Damage Per Minute, and average DPS over 1 minute, which would give you an idea about your weapon's performance for individual Waves for all Ranks.  In the process of making those calculations I may also add time to empty a single clip and time to empty all ammo from full, which may be helpful not only for picking your loadout, but in picking appropriate mods to manage the weaknesses of your chosen weapons.

Check the link below as I'll be updating and maintaining it until they stop doing balance changes and we have literally everything figured out. If you forget about the below link, there's still a link to the less good published version in the Resource library thread DragonRacer made (that version doesn't freeze the top row and leftmost column making it less user-friendly, but it's the same data). docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d_YezAcp3z1BN4jnXd-mqvyPrsKMFqrzyLnFz7N99vA/edit#gid=91432962

I will be updating today (I think) because they have new game file dumps in the main resource I'm deriving this from, which is the Weapon Stats sheet in docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12FgX1J0dlwNks__49P-8E9pu0jyUAcwdPf0wDQ1Epno/edit?ts=5910af28#gid=225733829, which you can also get to from the OP of the Numerical Testing thread.  That will take out the linear interpolation I've had to use for guns that got balance changes in Patch 1.06 and replace it with the actual numbers used in-game.

wait, the disciple is better than the dhan?