Talk:Ion Turret/@comment-25550798-20141030144310/@comment-25550798-20141031105743

Thanks for the additional insight, Eight. You can never be too sure with Kixeye, they simply don't state enough information about their calculations, so that leaves us to ASSUME that the Rate of Fire is per 60 seconds, or assume that it's per 30 seconds.

But I did go a little further into this and found the shots were actually occuring about [U]3.75[/U]  seconds apart rather than 4 like I originally thought. So that would actually put the Rate of Fire at 16 assuming it's per 60 seconds, or 8 if you're correct about it being per 30 seconds. So technically their stated information could be correct, we just can't know for sure unless we test it.

But if all of this is correct, the max damage per >shot< for a level 8 Ion would indeed be 49,868 like you said. So even my original calculation would have arrived at this (13,298 x 3.75 = 49,868) if the timing was right, but you have to account for human error/reaction time when dealing with a stopwatch, which I failed to do.

So we're left with this: A Level 8 Ion Turret does 13,298 DPS, 49,868 Damage Per Shot (before resistances) and has a Rate of Fire of 8 or 16 depending on which calculation you use. Technically Rate of Fire should be per minute in this case but they probably just halved it for the sake of using smaller numbers, which is understandable.

Again I appreciate the insight, Eight. I think that's about as close as we're gonna get without requesting the exact data from Kixeye themselves, which I personally don't intend to do.