Talk:Heavy Caliber/@comment-58.182.179.132-20141007162638/@comment-4813917-20141011094459

If you already have Serration, it may be better to use an elemental mod as the wiki says. The Heavy Caliber increase is added to the Serration increase before being multiplied while elemental mods are calculated after.

Here is an example

Only Serration: 100 base damage * (1+1.65) = 265 damage

Serration and Heavy Caliber: 100 base damage * (1+1.65+1.65) = 430 damage

Serration and Cryo Rounds: 100 base damage * (1+1.65) * (1+0.9) = 503.5 damage

In the above example, using Serration and Cryo Rounds would equal a larger total damage output, use less mod points, suffer no accuracy loss, and use the same number of mod spaces as Seration with Heavy Caliber.