Ranged weapon · Base game · tier I–IV

Pistol

Gun

At zero bonus stats

72.12 DPS

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)

Tier IV · steady-state mean cycle 0.87 s · one equipped weapon

The coefficients competitors leave out

What Pistol scales from

Ranged Damage × 1.0

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

Use your current stats

Your Pistol numbers

Weapon tier

Using zero bonus player stats

Expected damage / hit62.50one primary-target hit

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)72.120.87 s mean cycle

The keep-stacking answer

What +1 more point is worth now

+1 Ranged Damage+1.44 DPS

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

Ideal maximum-chain DPS (before enemy armor) 108.17 2 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	12	20	30	50
Cooldown	60 ticks1 seconds	55 ticks0.92 seconds	50 ticks0.83 seconds	40 ticks0.67 seconds
Critical hit	10% × 2	15% × 2	20% × 2	25% × 2
Ranged Damage scaling	× 1.0	× 1.0	× 1.0	× 1.0
Shop price	10	22	45	91
Expected damage / hit	13.20	23.00	36.00	62.50
Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor	11.00	20.60	34.84	72.12

Same computation, read by weapon

Where Pistol is a notable outlier

This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip Pistol 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 lower than generic

Ranks 16 places lower for Brawler than generic (#22 of 31 ranged weapons here, #6 generic)
Ranks 15 places lower for Diver than generic (#21 of 31 ranged weapons here, #6 generic)
Ranks 10 places lower for Artificer than generic (#16 of 31 ranged weapons here, #6 generic)
Ranks 10 places lower for Masochist than generic (#16 of 31 ranged weapons here, #6 generic)
Ranks 10 places lower for Pacifist than generic (#16 of 31 ranged weapons here, #6 generic)