Melee weapon · Base game · tier I–IV

Jousting Lance

Medieval

At the game default stat block

38.59 DPS

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)

Tier IV · steady-state mean cycle 1.33 s · one equipped weapon

The coefficients competitors leave out

What Jousting Lance scales from

Melee Damage × 0.5

Every point of Melee Damage adds 0.5 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.

% Speed × 0.5

Every point of Speed adds 0.5 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.

Use your current stats

Your Jousting Lance numbers

Weapon tier

Player stats

Enter the final values shown on your character. Fields start at the game’s own default stat block, where every stat but Max HP starts at zero — a 0 here is that default, not an empty field. These values stay on this device when you open another weapon.

Melee Damagescales damage % Speedscales damage % Damage % Attack Speed % Crit Chance Equipped Weaponstiming context

Using 1 equipped weapon

Expected damage / hit51.50one primary-target hit

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)38.591.33 s mean cycle

The keep-stacking answer

What +1 more point is worth now

+1 Melee Damage+0.00 DPS

Takes +2 Melee Damage before this DPS figure moves.

+1 Speed+0.00 DPS

Takes +2 Speed before this DPS figure moves.

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

Outside the number above

What Jousting Lance does that its DPS does not count

The DPS figure on this page measures direct damage to one target. Jousting Lance also carries the following, and none of it is in that figure. These are stated, not quantified: an amount the game itself declares is quoted as it stands, and no DPS is computed for a channel this site has not modelled.

Declares a stat this figure ignores The weapon’s own stat effect, missing from this figure
This weapon declares % Speed from +2 to +5 as it upgrades for itself, and its own damage or attack cycle reads that stat. The figure above does not include it. Equipping the weapon writes it into your stats, and unequipping takes the write back.
% Damage from −10 to −25 as it upgrades, while not moving An effect the weapon declares, outside this figure
This weapon declares % Damage from −10 to −25 as it upgrades, while not moving. The DPS figure above neither includes this nor corrects for it: a triggered grant is not a flat value, and this figure is the untriggered one. A weapon’s declared effects are applied to you on equip and removed on unequip, though what a triggered one is worth depends on a condition this figure does not model.

By tier

Tier 1 +2% Speed to itself · −10% Damage while not moving
Tier 2 +3% Speed to itself · −15% Damage while not moving
Tier 3 +4% Speed to itself · −20% Damage while not moving
Tier 4 +5% Speed to itself · −25% Damage while not moving

Measured on the rest of your loadout

What carrying Jousting Lance does to your other weapons

Equipping Jousting Lance writes its stat effect into your player stats, and every other weapon you carry reads that same stat block. Below is that write applied to each of the 78 other weapon families, through the same DPS calculation the rest of this page uses. The figures follow the weapon tier selected above.

Other families whose DPS changes 0 of 78 Tier I · +2% Speed

Largest single change None No other family changes

Tier I Jousting Lance writes +2% Speed into your player stats. None of the 78 other weapon families computes a different DPS while it is equipped; all 78 are unchanged. That is what happens when no other family’s damage reads the stat this tier writes, or when the amount written is too small to survive the game’s truncation to whole damage.

Other families whose DPS changes 0 of 78 Tier II · +3% Speed

Largest single change None No other family changes

Tier II Jousting Lance writes +3% Speed into your player stats. None of the 78 other weapon families computes a different DPS while it is equipped; all 78 are unchanged. That is what happens when no other family’s damage reads the stat this tier writes, or when the amount written is too small to survive the game’s truncation to whole damage.

Other families whose DPS changes 0 of 78 Tier III · +4% Speed

Largest single change None No other family changes

Tier III Jousting Lance writes +4% Speed into your player stats. None of the 78 other weapon families computes a different DPS while it is equipped; all 78 are unchanged. That is what happens when no other family’s damage reads the stat this tier writes, or when the amount written is too small to survive the game’s truncation to whole damage.

Other families whose DPS changes 0 of 78 Tier IV · +5% Speed

Largest single change None No other family changes

Tier IV Jousting Lance writes +5% Speed into your player stats. None of the 78 other weapon families computes a different DPS while it is equipped; all 78 are unchanged. That is what happens when no other family’s damage reads the stat this tier writes, or when the amount written is too small to survive the game’s truncation to whole damage.

What these figures assume

One copy of Jousting Lance equipped.
Each other weapon family measured at its own highest tier, on this site’s default stat block — the same baseline every DPS figure here quotes.
What the write does to Jousting Lance’s own damage is not included. That correction is not published on this site, so no figure on this page carries it.
Everything the DPS metric itself leaves out still applies — see What this number means below.

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.”

Every figure here is measured with one equipped weapon. A character page ranks this same weapon inside that character’s own loadout, at the weapon-slot count that character starts with, and that count changes the steady-state cycle — so the same tier can show a different DPS there. Each character page states the count its figures use.

For melee cycle timing, the calculation uses the weapon’s listed maximum range as attack distance, matching the damage model’s cross-validation method; runtime target distance can change that timing.

Listed values + computed output

All available tiers

Zero player bonus stats

Metric	Tier I	Tier II	Tier III	Tier IV
Base damage	20	25	30	50
Cooldown	55 ticks0.92 seconds	50 ticks0.83 seconds	45 ticks0.75 seconds	40 ticks0.67 seconds
Critical hit	3% × 2	3% × 2	3% × 2	3% × 2
Melee Damage scaling	× 0.5	× 0.5	× 0.5	× 0.5
% Speed scaling	× 0.3	× 0.35	× 0.4	× 0.5
Shop price	20	36	72	132
Expected damage / hit	20.60	25.75	30.90	51.50
Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor	13.00	17.15	21.79	38.59

Read from the character pages

Characters that can start with Jousting Lance

Jousting Lance is one of the starting weapon choices for 13 of the 64 characters, at the tier each character’s own pool record declares. Each of those pages ranks that character’s whole opening pool by computed DPS, so you can see where this weapon lands before the first wave.

Cryptid offers it at Tier I
Explorer offers it at Tier I
Gladiator offers it at Tier I
Glutton offers it at Tier I
Hiker offers it at Tier I
Jack offers it at Tier I
King offers it at Tier II
Knight offers it at Tier II
Loud offers it at Tier I
Lucky offers it at Tier I

Showing 10 of 13 characters, alphabetically.

Same computation, read by weapon

Where Jousting Lance is a notable outlier

This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip Jousting Lance 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

Ranger — Melee weapons filtered from offers and cannot be bought
Renegade — Melee weapons filtered from offers and cannot be bought

Ranks notably lower than generic

Ranks 13 places lower for Artificer than generic (#40 of 48 melee weapons here, #27 generic)
Ranks 11 places lower for Masochist than generic (#38 of 48 melee weapons here, #27 generic)
Ranks 11 places lower for Pacifist than generic (#38 of 48 melee weapons here, #27 generic)