Ranged weapon · Base game · tier I–IV

Shuriken

Precise

At zero bonus stats

26.57 DPS

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)

Tier IV · steady-state mean cycle 0.70 s · one equipped weapon

The coefficients competitors leave out

What Shuriken scales from

Melee Damage × 0.5

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

Use your current stats

Your Shuriken numbers

Weapon tier

Using zero bonus player stats

Expected damage / hit18.60one primary-target hit

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)26.570.70 s mean cycle

The keep-stacking answer

What +1 more point is worth now

+1 Melee 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 I	Tier II	Tier III	Tier IV
Base damage	7	9	11	15
Cooldown	40 ticks0.67 seconds	38 ticks0.63 seconds	36 ticks0.6 seconds	30 ticks0.5 seconds
Critical hit	35% × 1.5	38% × 1.5	41% × 1.5	45% × 1.5
Melee Damage scaling	× 0.25	× 0.34	× 0.42	× 0.5
Shop price	12	26	52	105
Expected damage / hit	8.40	10.90	13.46	18.60
Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor	9.69	13.08	16.83	26.57

Same computation, read by weapon

Where Shuriken is a notable outlier

This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip Shuriken 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 18 places higher for Diver than generic (#4 of 31 ranged weapons here, #22 generic)
Ranks 15 places higher for Brawler than generic (#7 of 31 ranged weapons here, #22 generic)
Ranks 13 places higher for Artificer than generic (#9 of 31 ranged weapons here, #22 generic)
Ranks 13 places higher for Masochist than generic (#9 of 31 ranged weapons here, #22 generic)
Ranks 13 places higher for Pacifist than generic (#9 of 31 ranged weapons here, #22 generic)