Ranged weapon · Base game · tier II–IV

Flamethrower

ElementalHeavy

At zero bonus stats

11.11 DPS

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)

Tier IV · steady-state mean cycle 0.09 s · one equipped weapon

The coefficients competitors leave out

What Flamethrower scales from

Elemental Damage × 0.01

Every point of Elemental Damage adds 0.01 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.

Use your current stats

Your Flamethrower numbers

Weapon tier

Using zero bonus player stats

Expected damage / hit1.00one primary-target hit

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)11.110.09 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.

Ideal maximum-chain DPS (before enemy armor) 1,111.11 100 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 II	Tier III	Tier IV
Base damage	1	1	1
Cooldown	5 ticks0.08 seconds	5 ticks0.08 seconds	3 ticks0.05 seconds
Critical hit	0% × 2	0% × 2	0% × 2
Elemental Damage scaling	× 0.01	× 0.01	× 0.01
Shop price	56	103	207
Expected damage / hit	1.00	1.00	1.00
Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor	8.11	8.11	11.11

Same computation, read by weapon

Where Flamethrower is a notable outlier

This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip Flamethrower 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 26 places higher for Artificer than generic (#4 of 31 ranged weapons here, #30 generic)
Ranks 26 places higher for Masochist than generic (#4 of 31 ranged weapons here, #30 generic)
Ranks 26 places higher for Pacifist than generic (#4 of 31 ranged weapons here, #30 generic)
Ranks 19 places higher for Diver than generic (#11 of 31 ranged weapons here, #30 generic)
Ranks 17 places higher for Brawler than generic (#13 of 31 ranged weapons here, #30 generic)
Ranks 15 places higher for Renegade than generic (#15 of 31 ranged weapons here, #30 generic)