Ranged weapon · Abyssal Terrors · tier I–IV

Javelin

Primitive

At zero bonus stats

21.05 DPS

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)

Tier IV · steady-state mean cycle 0.95 s · one equipped weapon

The coefficients competitors leave out

What Javelin scales from

Melee Damage × 1.0

Every point of Melee Damage adds 1.0 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.

Use your current stats

Your Javelin numbers

Weapon tier

Using zero bonus player stats

Expected damage / hit20.00one primary-target hit

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)21.050.95 s mean cycle

The keep-stacking answer

What +1 more point is worth now

+1 Melee Damage+1.05 DPS

Exact discrete change after the game’s truncation and rounding steps—not a smoothed estimate.

Ideal maximum-chain DPS (before enemy armor) 67.37 6 distinct targets per projectile; enough valid targets assumed.

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.”

Listed values + computed output

All available tiers

Zero player bonus stats

Metric	Tier I	Tier II	Tier III	Tier IV
Base damage	8	12	16	20
Cooldown	60 ticks1 seconds	55 ticks0.92 seconds	50 ticks0.83 seconds	45 ticks0.75 seconds
Critical hit	0% × 2.5	0% × 2.75	0% × 3	0% × 3.25
Melee Damage scaling	× 1.0	× 1.0	× 1.0	× 1.0
Shop price	18	36	66	140
Expected damage / hit	8.00	12.00	16.00	20.00
Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor	6.67	10.75	15.48	21.05

Same computation, read by weapon

Where Javelin is a notable outlier

This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip Javelin 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

Dwarf — Ranged weapons filtered from offers and cannot be bought
Gladiator — Ranged weapons filtered from offers and cannot be bought
Knight — Ranged weapons filtered from offers and cannot be bought
Ogre — Ranged weapons filtered from offers and cannot be bought

Ranks notably higher than generic

Ranks 19 places higher for Diver than generic (#7 of 31 ranged weapons here, #26 generic)
Ranks 17 places higher for Brawler than generic (#9 of 31 ranged weapons here, #26 generic)