Talk:Scindo Manticore Skin/@comment-9336223-20130509212907

The Manticore Axe skin gives a 15% damage bonus to normal, jump, and slide attacks. The way in which this bonus is calculated is equivalent to adding that 15% to whatever damage bonus is provided by your equipped Pressure Point mod. If you don't have that mod equipped, use 0% as the initial damage bonus provided. I tested this by killing runners and leapers on one of the lower-level infested exterminate missions. Here are the results:

Scindo with Manticore Axe skin and no mods:

171 damage to runners and leapers on normal attack

258 damage to runners and leapers on critical hit from normal attack

276 damage to runners and leapers on direct hit from jump attack

Scindo with normal skin and no mods:

150 damage to runners and leapers on normal attack

To test the swing speed reduction, I used the stopwatch on my cell phone to find the amount of time between pressing the melee button and hearing the *clang* of it connecting with a wall, and the amount of time between pressing the melee button and having your gun back in hand and ready to shoot. Here are the results:

Scindo with Manticore Axe skin and no mods:

1.05 seconds to clang

3.05 seconds to gun in hand

Scindo with normal skin and no mods:

1.04 seconds to clang

2.97 seconds to gun in hand

Scindo with Manticore Axe skin and rank 3 Fury mod:

0.90 seconds to clang

2.80 seconds to gun in hand

Scindo with normal skin and rank 3 Fury mod:

0.91 seconds to clang

2.88 seconds to gun in hand

When I click the Start/Stop button as quickly as I can, the time difference between clicks is 0.07 seconds.

While I'm confident the 15% damage bonus is correct, I'm fairly certain it's supposed to give a noticelable drop in swing speed. I will be testing it again soon.