Ranged weapon · Base game · tier II–IV

Rocket Launcher

HeavyExplosive

At zero bonus stats

79.69 DPS

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)

Tier IV · steady-state mean cycle 1.03 s · one equipped weapon

The coefficients competitors leave out

What Rocket Launcher 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 Rocket Launcher numbers

Weapon tier

Using zero bonus player stats

Expected damage / hit82.40one primary-target hit

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)79.691.03 s mean cycle

The keep-stacking answer

What +1 more point is worth now

+1 Ranged Damage+1.00 DPS

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

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 II	Tier III	Tier IV
Base damage	30	50	80
Cooldown	90 ticks1.5 seconds	65 ticks1.08 seconds	45 ticks0.75 seconds
Critical hit	3% × 2	3% × 2	3% × 2
Ranged Damage scaling	× 1.0	× 1.0	× 1.0
Shop price	56	103	207
Expected damage / hit	30.90	51.50	82.40
Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor	17.32	37.66	79.69

Same computation, read by weapon

Where Rocket Launcher is a notable outlier

This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip Rocket Launcher 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 22 places lower for Diver than generic (#25 of 31 ranged weapons here, #3 generic)
Ranks 20 places lower for Artificer than generic (#23 of 31 ranged weapons here, #3 generic)
Ranks 20 places lower for Masochist than generic (#23 of 31 ranged weapons here, #3 generic)
Ranks 20 places lower for Pacifist than generic (#23 of 31 ranged weapons here, #3 generic)