Talk:Penta/@comment-31.47.85.12-20131218094342/@comment-16584725-20131218112626

Explosion and Impact damage are two separate numbers and don't affect each other. So adding Rupture only gives you 45 damage (times serration, heavy caliber and Bane) on direct hit by grenade. IPS mods don't affect explosion or any elemental damage.

And the person that answered to you first is absolutely right. It isn't worth it to use IPS mods on any weapon because it's on the bottom of priorities (base damage, multishot, crit*, 2 elements, fire rate**, 3rd element, faction, last element and after all that IPS mod for the highest part) so there is no space left.


 * crit mods only on rifles with at least 2x 20% base crit


 * on low magazine weapons fire rate goes under 3rd element; it's also not very useful on semi-automatic weapons with fire rate higher than 10