Ranged weapon · Base game · tier II–IV

Fireball

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At zero bonus stats

23.42 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 Fireball scales from

Elemental Damage × 0.75

Every point of Elemental Damage adds 0.75 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.

Use your current stats

Your Fireball numbers

Weapon tier

Using zero bonus player stats

Expected damage / hit20.30one primary-target hit

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)23.420.87 s mean cycle

The keep-stacking answer

What +1 more point is worth now

+1 Elemental Damage+0.00 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	5	10	20
Cooldown	55 ticks0.92 seconds	50 ticks0.83 seconds	40 ticks0.67 seconds
Critical hit	3% × 1.5	3% × 1.5	3% × 1.5
Elemental Damage scaling	× 0.25	× 0.5	× 0.75
Shop price	36	66	140
Expected damage / hit	5.09	10.15	20.30
Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor	4.56	9.82	23.42

Same computation, read by weapon

Where Fireball is a notable outlier

This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip Fireball 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 (#6 of 31 ranged weapons here, #25 generic)
Ranks 17 places higher for Brawler than generic (#8 of 31 ranged weapons here, #25 generic)