by basvard — last updated 3 years ago
Parvos Granum's engineers have made this already ferocious hand cannon even more deadly with the addition of an alternate fire mode that empties an entire clip in one devastating burst.
ITEM RANK
4080 / 80
APPLY CONDITIONALS
KUVA ELEMENT
This one is based off my Sharp Shooter's Hand Shotgun, which ironically uses [Magnum Force] that decreases accuracy. Welp, Magnum Force is removed in favor of Galvanized Shot, because of -55% accuracy penalty for +165% damage increase.
Galvanized Shot can potentially increase the damage up to 360% with the Radiation+Magnetic+Heat setup of this gun by simply killing 3 baddies. The math? 3 stacks of +40% damage per element = +120% damage on 3 kills. That brings it to 3(elements)*+120%=360% on the third kill with this gun alone. How am I confident in this? You have 27 pellets minimum, each with 18% status chance of proccing heat, radiation or magnetic. With Galvanized Diffusion, you're looking at up to 39 pellets per shot, with 18% status chance per pellet. If you have other weapons that prime your enemies, you're looking to bring that damage up even more. This easily exceeds Magnum Force, thus justifying its removal in favor of Galvanized Shot already on the 2nd kill.
Understandably, it's difficult for Overframe to predict the damage potential of Galvanized Shot. But that's the math, for all fellow geeks out there.
Not convinced? Using my Sharp Shooter's Hand Shotgun build to predict the math...
Granted... these are paper calculations. But it does not hurt to see the theoretical. As awkward as a Rad+[Mag]+Heat build can be, this build can dish out damage to every faction... except sentients. So, realistically factor in resistances for each faction as well.
Secondary Deadhead is my recommended choice of arcane, even with a spray-and-pray setup. As long as one of the pellets hit the head as you kill the enemy, it will trigger Secondary Deadhead. You only need 3 stacks for an additional +360%. The great benefit to using Secondary Deadhead is that stacks reduce by one every 24 seconds, which is comfortable to run around and get another potential headshot.
This potentially brings up bonus damage to +720% on third headshot kill - +360% from Galvanized Shot on 3rd kill, +360% from Secondary Deadhead on 3rd headshot kill. You can hit up to 1.072-million damage (factor in faction and their resistances)
If you haven't already, please check out my other builds:
