Talk:Sweeper/@comment-89.123.2.191-20140123034953/@comment-68.46.166.161-20140311031343

I've just finished getting a collection of respectable mods for my Sweeper (I'm not a shotgun user) and have had to think about this. The first question that comes to mind is how much do you care about status procs? The faster the sentinal fires, the more procs it will apply. Im going to assume that you have at least one of the following: Viral, Blast, Radiation, and Corrosive. You have to think of the utility of having it fire faster, in addition to the dps aspect.

You already have a 160% fire rate. Shotgun Spazz brings you to a 250% fire rate, which is 250/160 = 1.56, or it will proc 56% more often, not taking into consideration reload times.

A rough formula for damage should be (100% + point blank + blaze[physical]) * (100% + elemental mods + blaze[fire]) * (100% + accelerated blast + shotgun spazz). Which obviously doesn't take into account reload time, crits, or impact mod.

The thing that becomes clear is that if you add 100% in each category, you multiply your dps by 8 (200% * 200% * 200%). Where as if you add 100% to the first, 200% to the second, and nothing to the third, you get (200% * 300% * 100%), or multiply your dps by 6.