Talk:Status Effect/@comment-67.166.146.140-20151119010800/@comment-24557530-20151119211402

Well, Yes, if you shoot only one bullet/pellet.

If you have multishot or a weapon that shoots multiple pellets, your effective proc chance might be higher. For multiple pellets, the proc chance will be divided by the number of pellets and each pellet will have that proc chance. Multishot simple gives you addional bullets, each with the same proc chance as the first, but the arsenal will show the weighted total chance (but the display still caps at 100%, however your real proc chance may be higher).

Say you have 50% base chance and + 240% bonus. The arsenal will show 100%, but mathematically you will have 170% (= 50% * (1+2.4)).
 * A weapon with on bullet per shot will now have only 100% proc chance.
 * For a weapon with seven pellets, each will now have a 24.3% proc chance, so you can use your 170% total proc chance and will have 1.7 procs on average per shot.

If you now slap in 120% multishot instead of the 240% status chance (on the weapon with one bullet per shot), the arsenal will again show 100%, but in fact you will be shooting 2.2 bullets per shot, each with a 50% status chance. Thus you will have 1.1 procs per shot on average.

If you would combine both (120% multishot and 240% status) the arsenal would still show 100%.
 * however for a one-bullet-weapon, in fact, you will have 100% status chance for each of your 2.2 bullets per shot, so you will get a guaranteed proc for each bullet shot (2.2 procs per shot on average). Note that here the 100% cap actually applies as you do not get 170% chance for each of your bullets.
 * If you were to use this setup on the 7 pellet weapon from above, you'd still have 24.3% proc chance per pellet, but 15.4 pellets per shot, so get 374% effective proc chance, so 3.74 procs per shot on average and up to 16 different procs if you get really lucky xD