Talk:Heavy Caliber/@comment-194.138.39.61-20150326151008

Did a calculation with a soma prime. One with Serration, Split Chamber, Vital Sense, Point Strike and 4 elementals (I know, not ideal, but good for comparison). Then ran the numbers if you exchange one elemental with Heavy Caliber.

The DPS with an unranked HC dropped at first by 15%, rising again by about 4,6% with every rank on HC.

It's about at rank 4 that HC increases DPS over the 4 elemental build.

The increase is as following:

r4  +3.2%dps  -25%accuracy

r5  +7.8%dps  -30%accuracy

r6  +12.3%dps  -35%accuracy

r7  +16.9%dps  -40%accuracy

r8  +21.4%dps  -45%accuracy

r9  +26.0%dps  -50%accuracy

r10 +30.5%dps  -55%accuracy

So, 30% more dps is quite good, if you can handle the lower accuracy. Many people seem to keep HC at rank 6-8, which would only get you 12-21% more dps. Still good, but not that much for already -35/-45% accuracy.