Ranged weapon · Base game · tier I–IV

SMG

Gun

At zero bonus stats

53.60 DPS

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)

Tier IV · steady-state mean cycle 0.15 s · one equipped weapon

The coefficients competitors leave out

What SMG scales from

Ranged Damage × 0.8

Every point of Ranged Damage adds 0.8 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.

Use your current stats

Your SMG numbers

Weapon tier

Using zero bonus player stats

Expected damage / hit8.04one primary-target hit

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)53.600.15 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.

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	3	4	5	8
Cooldown	4 ticks0.07 seconds	4 ticks0.07 seconds	4 ticks0.07 seconds	3 ticks0.05 seconds
Critical hit	1% × 1.5	1% × 1.5	1% × 1.5	1% × 1.5
Ranged Damage scaling	× 0.5	× 0.6	× 0.7	× 0.8
Shop price	20	39	74	149
Expected damage / hit	3.02	4.02	5.03	8.04
Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor	18.12	24.12	30.18	53.60

Same computation, read by weapon

Where SMG is a notable outlier

This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip SMG 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 10 places higher for Artificer than generic (#5 of 31 ranged weapons here, #15 generic)
Ranks 10 places higher for Masochist than generic (#5 of 31 ranged weapons here, #15 generic)
Ranks 10 places higher for Pacifist than generic (#5 of 31 ranged weapons here, #15 generic)