Every point of Melee Damage adds 1.0 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.
Melee weapon · Base game · tier IV only
Drill
LegendaryPrecise
At zero bonus stats
38.85 DPSExpected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)
Tier IV · steady-state mean cycle 0.45 s · one equipped weaponThe coefficients competitors leave out
What Drill scales from
Every point of Engineering adds 1.0 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.
Use your current stats
Your Drill numbers
Using zero bonus player stats
The keep-stacking answer
What +1 more point is worth now
+1 Melee Damage+4.44 DPS
+1 Engineering+4.44 DPS
Metric boundary
What this number means
Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor) includes weapon base damage, the listed scaling coefficients, % Damage, weapon and player crit chance, projectile count, shooting duration, and steady-state mean cooldown. It assumes every projectile aimed at the primary target connects.
It excludes enemy armor, weapon-set damage bonuses, later pierce or bounce targets, melee area targets, misses, overkill, burning, explosions, spawned projectiles, on-hit effects, and weapon-scripted damage changes. The chain figure is separate and assumes enough distinct targets for every listed bounce and pierce. Neither figure is “actual DPS.”
For melee cycle timing, the calculation uses the weapon’s listed maximum range as attack distance, matching the damage model’s cross-validation method; runtime target distance can change that timing.
Listed values + computed output
All available tiers
Zero player bonus stats
| Metric | Tier IV |
|---|---|
| Base damage | 10 |
| Cooldown | 2 ticks0.03 seconds |
| Critical hit | 50% × 2.5 |
| Melee Damage scaling | × 1.0 |
| Engineering scaling | × 1.0 |
| Shop price | 250 |
| Expected damage / hit | 17.50 |
| Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor | 38.85 |
Same computation, read by weapon
Where Drill is a notable outlier
This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip Drill at all, and which ones its computed rank moves materially away from the generic, zero-bonus order. Same comparison each character page uses — default 10 Max HP, zero other bonus stats, weapons at their highest usable tier, before enemy armor; full stated assumptions are on each character’s own page.
Cannot use this weapon
Ranks notably higher than generic
- Ranks 27 places higher for Masochist than generic (#1 of 48 melee weapons here, #28 generic)
- Ranks 27 places higher for Pacifist than generic (#1 of 48 melee weapons here, #28 generic)
- Ranks 23 places higher for Artificer than generic (#5 of 48 melee weapons here, #28 generic)
- Ranks 18 places higher for Engineer than generic (#10 of 48 melee weapons here, #28 generic)
- Ranks 13 places higher for Ogre than generic (#15 of 48 melee weapons here, #28 generic)
Ranks notably lower than generic
- Ranks 18 places lower for Crazy than generic (#46 of 48 melee weapons here, #28 generic)
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