Ranged weapon · Base game · tier I–IV

Shredder

GunExplosive

At zero bonus stats

24.52 DPS

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)

Tier IV · steady-state mean cycle 1.05 s · one equipped weapon

The coefficients competitors leave out

What Shredder scales from

Ranged Damage × 0.5

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

Use your current stats

Your Shredder numbers

Weapon tier

Using zero bonus player stats

Expected damage / hit25.75one primary-target hit

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)24.521.05 s mean cycle

The keep-stacking answer

What +1 more point is worth now

+1 Ranged 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) 98.10 4 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 I	Tier II	Tier III	Tier IV
Base damage	5	10	15	25
Cooldown	60 ticks1 seconds	55 ticks0.92 seconds	50 ticks0.83 seconds	45 ticks0.75 seconds
Critical hit	3% × 2	3% × 2	3% × 2	3% × 2
Ranged Damage scaling	× 0.5	× 0.5	× 0.5	× 0.5
Shop price	15	31	61	122
Expected damage / hit	5.15	10.30	15.45	25.75
Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor	3.96	8.47	13.63	24.52

Same computation, read by weapon

Where Shredder is a notable outlier

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