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Ahh, right in my sleep addled brain I missed the part about this being in structured pvp. shortly after I made that post I ran around in sPvP for a while and, other than underwater, promptly got my face kicked in on any 1 on 1 fight when using grenades for the crazy unpredictability of movement going on.
So I ran to the mists and did some testing. Using the pvp rifle, the basic hipshot does approximately ~550 damage each shot, with around 750 for crits. Each grenade does ~350 damage each grenade with about 500 per crit, so about the same overall, not to mention you’re more likely to crit with one of the grenades since it’s two at once. This was all done sans traits, I as a grenade specialist, take the grenadier trait though for the third grenade which easily multiplies my DPS by 1.5 presuming all the grenades hit. Pistols do less, obviously. I wouldn’t say they’re mediocre at best, I say they’re fantastic at best! Obviously this is presuming you’re a good throw though. I’m pretty good, a lot of people aren’t, so it’s really personal preference.
Sorry to sperg out so much, I usually don’t, but something about this game…
Lovely information, but one thing that strikes me as odd, you mention that the standard grenade does ‘mediocre damage at best’. As a pretty heavy grenade user, I would dispute that, I find that it deals a fairly heavy amount of damage, (considering you can hit your target of course!) From my brief observations, each grenade does about the same damage as a single rifle shot hit. Two grenades with base traits, and three possible with the grenadier trait, the damage adds up fairly quickly! Not to mention, the firing rate is about the same for both.
Though to be perfectly honest, I’m not sure about once you start getting higher level rifles, since you sadly can’t upgrade your grenades, as I’m only ~75 at the moment. With fairly standard weaponry, standard grenades have a much high dps (assuming you’re accurate). If I’m wrong, or maybe just using rifle wrong, I would love information disputing otherwise! Anything to make me more effective.
adding +1 here for my group can’t do caudecus story or exploratory, we all did story yesterday together.