Ranged weapon · Base game · tier I–IV

Ghost Scepter

Ethereal

At zero bonus stats

37.08 DPS

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)

Tier IV · steady-state mean cycle 0.83 s · one equipped weapon

The coefficients competitors leave out

What Ghost Scepter 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 Ghost Scepter numbers

Weapon tier

Using zero bonus player stats

Expected damage / hit30.90one primary-target hit

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)37.080.83 s mean cycle

The keep-stacking answer

What +1 more point is worth now

+1 Ranged Damage+1.24 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 I	Tier II	Tier III	Tier IV
Base damage	10	15	20	30
Cooldown	47 ticks0.78 seconds	44 ticks0.73 seconds	41 ticks0.68 seconds	38 ticks0.63 seconds
Critical hit	3% × 2	3% × 2	3% × 2	3% × 2
Ranged Damage scaling	× 1.0	× 1.0	× 1.0	× 1.0
Shop price	15	31	61	122
Expected damage / hit	10.30	15.45	20.60	30.90
Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor	10.47	16.55	23.32	37.08

Same computation, read by weapon

Where Ghost Scepter is a notable outlier

This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip Ghost Scepter 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.