Ranged weapon · Base game · tier I–IV

Rail Gun

GunHeavy

At zero bonus stats

38.23 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 Rail Gun scales from

Ranged Damage × 1.0

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

% Dodge × 0.45

Every point of Dodge adds 0.45 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.

Use your current stats

Your Rail Gun numbers

Weapon tier

Using zero bonus player stats

Expected damage / hit36.32one primary-target hit

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)38.230.95 s mean cycle

The keep-stacking answer

What +1 more point is worth now

+1 Ranged Damage+1.08 DPS

+1 Dodge+0.00 DPS

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

Ideal maximum-chain DPS (before enemy armor) 102.71 4 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	10	15	20	35
Cooldown	52 ticks0.87 seconds	49 ticks0.82 seconds	47 ticks0.78 seconds	45 ticks0.75 seconds
Critical hit	3% × 1.5	3% × 1.75	3% × 2	3% × 2.25
Ranged Damage scaling	× 0.8	× 0.8	× 0.9	× 1.0
% Dodge scaling	× 0.3	× 0.35	× 0.4	× 0.45
Shop price	20	40	80	160
Expected damage / hit	10.15	15.33	20.60	36.32
Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor	9.52	15.08	20.95	38.23

Same computation, read by weapon

Where Rail Gun is a notable outlier

This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip Rail Gun 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.