Talk:Weapon Comparison/@comment-26293759-20150409053748/@comment-25506106-20150427203253

DPS for melee is calculated based on the attack speed as 'attacks per second', but the numbers given by codex are wildly misleading and innaccurate. A weapon with attack speed of 1.0 might attack more or less then a similar one also with 1.0.. Dual weapons may also have combo strikes, such as dual daggers commonly having 2-3 strikes per attack. These speeds also change depending on stance used, and if a weapon is 'active' or just using quick attacks. For melee, DPS is given on the charts, but is generaly not a good indicator of actual use. This is expecially true of critical based weapons, which may feature lower damage, which ramps up rapidly with critical strike increases.

I have no idea where that 'Lone Tenno' poster got it as a multiplier based on type, because the speeds do not seem to corelate by weapon types either.