Weapon Statistics: A Line-By-Line Explanation

[Silver Ice]

Every weapon has it's own, unique statistics. You are able to view a weapon's stats by right clicking the weapon and selecting the option to view the item's information.

In the information panel that appears, there are 3 blue buttons at the bottom left of the information panel that will give you the option to view 3 different types of information about the particular weapon you are looking at. The "i" button allows you to view the Trade Terminal value of the weapon the "magnifying glass" button allows you to view the weapon's statistics, and the "description" button allows you to view the Entropian description of the weapon. There are also various buttons on the right hand side that allow you to view the market price and perform other actions. If you have attachments added to the weapon, those are displayed in a drop-down window.

For this tutorial, we will be focusing on the statistics display for the weapon. The statistics display for a Korss400(L) with an attatched Omegaton A104 amplifier is shown below:

Quite interesting to look at, but what do all of those lines of information actually mean? We will go through the above picture line-by-line, and explain what each statistic is for.

At the very top is the name of the weapon: Korss H400 (L)
The (L) signifies that this is a limited weapon, which means once it reaches it's minimum Trade Terminal value, the item cannot be repaired. In other words, it's completely useless once it's broken, unless, of course, you enjoy collecting broken items.

Condition Limit: 3.0% The minimum condition percentage. For example, if the weapon is worth 100PED at full Trade Terminal value, and the condition limit is 3.0%, then the minimum condition for the weapon is 3PED Trade Terminal value. When the weapon, or any other item reaches it's minimum condition, it can no longer be dropped on the ground or in an estate.

Weight: 1.2kg This line is pretty self-explanatory; this particular weapon weighs 1.2 kg.

Item Points: 1 Every item is worth a certain number of item points. This is significant if you plan to place the item in an apartment or estate, as there is a maximum number of item points that you may place inside of an estate.

Profession requirement damage: This line indicates that the next few statistics relate to the professional level in the damage catagory for this weapon. (There is a separate damage and hit level for every type of weapon.)
Name: Ranged Laser (Dmg) The name of the damage professional level that is needed to effectively operate this weapon.
Recommended level: 12.8 The minimum level # in the above named damage profession that is needed to be able to effectively operate this weapon. (Select the professional levels action from your action library to view your current level.)
Skill Progress: 100% This percentage represents how close you are to reaching the required damage statistics for this weapon. It is not a good idea to use a weapon on which you are below 100% damage skill-progress rate. Doing so can become quite expensive due to decay and ammo spent vs. the low amount of damage you will be inflicting because you do not have enough skill to operate the weapon properly.

Profession requirement hit: This line indicates that the next few statistics relate to the professional level in the hit catagory for this weapon. (There is a separate damage and hit level for every type of weapon.)
Name: Laser Pistoleer (Hit) The name of the hit professional level that is needed to effectively operate this weapon.
Recommended level: 12.8 The minimum level # in the above named hit profession that is needed to be able to effectively operate this weapon. (Select the professional levels action from your action library to view your current level.)
Skill progress: 100.0% This percentage represents how close you are to reaching the required hit statistics for this weapon. It is not a good idea to use a weapon on which you are below 100% hit skill-progress rate. Doing so can become quite expensive due to the amount of missed shots dealt and decay spent because you do not have enough skill to operate the weapon properly.

Skill increase bonus: This line indicates that the following information is about any skill-increase bonuses that may be obtained from using this particular weapon.
Learning period damage: Not anymore The learning period damage line indicates whether there is a skill-increase bonus for the damage profession named in the above statistics. There are 4 possible stats that can go here:
1)Never indicates that there is never any skill increase bonus associated with this weapon.
2)Not yet indicates that you are not yet skilled enough to obtain a skill bonus on this particular weapon.
3)Yes indicates that by using this weapon, you will get a skill increase bonus.
4)Not anymore indicates that you have completely maxed the statistics for this weapon, and no longer gain a skill increase bonus from it. You will still gain skills at the normal rate, but you will no longer get the extra increases that come with having the skill bonus.
Learning period hit: Not anymore The learning period hit line indicates whether there is a skill-increase bonus for the hit profession named in the above statistics. There are 4 possible stats that can go here:
1)Never indicates that there is never any skill increase bonus associated with this weapon.
2)Not yet indicates that you are not yet skilled enough to obtain a skill bonus on this particular weapon.
3)Yes indicates that by using this weapon, you will get a skill increase bonus.
4)Not anymore indicates that you have completely maxed the statistics for this weapon, and no longer gain a skill increase bonus from it. You will still gain skills at the 100% rate, but you will no longer get the extra increases that come with having the skill bonus.

Catagory: Laser This weapon's catagory, or type.

Ammo Type: Light Weapon Cells Different weapons burn different types of ammo, and melee weapons don't burn ammo at all. This line indicates the name of the type of ammo you need for this particular weapon.

Ammo burn: 8 9 The number of ammo that this weapon will burn with each individual pull of the trigger. Notice that there are two different numbers in this line. There is an amplifier attatched to this weapon that burns one additional ammo; the first number indicates the amount of ammo this weapon burns alone, the second number is the amount of ammo this weapon burns in total with this particular damage amplifier attatched to it.

Durability: Very Good This line indicates the rate at which this weapon decays. There are many possible statistics for this line; the better it sounds is the slower the rate of decay for this weapon. Some examples of durability stats include: Fragile, Poor, Average, Above Average, Good, Very Good, Excellent, and Exceptional. (*Note: to find accurate decay costs for individual weapons, Entropedia is an excellent reference.)

Attacks per minute / max: 57/57 The number of shots in one minute. Note that there are two numbers for this line. The first number indicates the number of attacks per minute that you are actually capable of with your skill level. The second number indicates the maximum number of attacks per minute that the weapon is capable of, without figuring in your skill level.

The next couple of lines indicate the damage types, and how much of each type of damage that the particular weapon does:
Damage penetration: 0.0 2.0
Damage burn: 37.0 49.0
Note that there are two numbers here. The damage amplifier adds more damage to the weapon, and the number on the right in each line indicates the total damage with the extra attachment.

Damage interval / max: 25.5-51.0/25.5-51.0 This number indicates the range of the minimum/maximum amount of damage per shot. Note that there are two separate sets of numbers in this field. The first number indicates the amount of damage per shot that you are capable of doing with your skill level. The second set of numbers indicates the maximum range of damage per shot that the weapon is capable of doing without factoring in your skill level.

Range (m) / max: 35.2/35.2 This line indicates the range of your weapon, or how far out a shot will reach, in meters. Note that there are two separate numbers in this line. The first number indicates the range you can reach with your skill level, the second number indicates the maximum possible range that this weapon is capable of reaching without factoring in your skill level.

Hit ability / max: 10.0/10.0 This number indicates the approximate percentage of shots you will land compared to the number of shots you fire. The first number indicates your skill level, the second number the maximum. You want this to always be as close to 10.0/10.0 as possible; the lower the first number is is the more shots you will miss. The more shots you miss is the more ammo/PEDs/decay cost you spend for nothing.

Critical hit ability / max: 10.0/10.0 The closer the first number in this set of numbers is to 10.0, is the more critical hits you will land when shooting someone/something. A critical hit allows you to do more than the maximum amount of damage.

Below is a picture of an EWE-EP35 Serenity with some additional attachments:

As you can see above, when scopes and laser sights are added to a weapon additional statistics are added to the statistics page. I have highlighted the extra attachments and the added statistics for convienience.

Skill modification (%): 0.0 32.5 This line is added when scopes and laser sights are attached to a weapon. The percentage amount, in this case 32.5%, represents the amount your skill is boosted while using these weapon attachments on this particular weapon. In other words, when you add scopes and/or laser sights to your weapon, it increases your abilitiy to effectively operate the weapon by a percentage. Notice there are also two separate numbers in this line; the first number represents the skill modification on the weapon alone, the second number with the added scopes and laser sights. Scopes and laser sights should be fully repaired to be entirely effective, and there is no need to add scopes or laser sights to a weapon on which you have 10/10 hit ability. It is possible to add 2 laser sights and one scope to a weapon by placing one laser sight on a scope, then the scope on the weapon, and placing an additional laser sight directly on the weapon.

Now that you understand how to read weapons statistics, hopefully you will be able to choose the perfect weapon for yourself and your skill level.

Keep in mind that hunting with a weapon that is above your skill level can become very costly. You will burn more ammo and do less damage, miss shots, spend extra in weapon decay and possibly amplifier decay. Who wants to spend 10 ammo to do 12 damage? All of these things can add up over time to millions of wasted PED. Choose your weapons wisely! [CENTER

[Gankoholic]

nicely done , this will help us newbs alot

[Redfrog]

Excellent info, well laid out and explained.

STICKY!!

[byubi]

thats very well explained, i think many ppl will find this very helpfull
+rep

[Silver Ice]

Thank you for the feedback guys! I'm glad you find it helpful.

I've answered the same questions time & time again for many a newbie about weapons stats, so I figured that a little guide might come in handy for both newcomers and mentors alike. I find it to be much easier to read and understand, or explain something of this nature in this type of format, rather than trying to understand or explain it via PM or chat inside of EU.

I read through it again and found all kinds of typos and mistakes, please feel free to point out any more if you happen to notice them while reading it & I'll fix it.

[byubi]

maybe an opalo with A101 would be a better exemple, your kross is cool too, because it explains whats (L) weapon.
a scope and sight will make your guide perfect IMO.

[Jimmy B]

Nice post

Originally Posted by Redfrog

STICKY!!

Sticky.

[Oleg]

Excellent guide, +rep!

Originally Posted by Silver Ice

Skill Progress: 100% This percentage represents the speed at which you will gain skill in the damage professional level named above when using this weapon. It is not a good idea to use a weapon on which you are below 100% skill-gain-rate. Doing so will cheat you out of skills gained per PEDs spent with the particular weapon.

I'm not sure about this part - I didn't think the Skill Progress had a relationship with skill gains. You're right, it's not a good idea to use a weapon on which you are below 100% Skill Progress, but that's because you will have very poor hit/damage stats on the weapon, as you're not skilled enough to use it properly. It doesn't really have anything to do with skill gains, if I understand it correctly.

[Jimmy B]

Originally Posted by Oleg

I'm not sure about this part - I didn't think the Skill Progress had a relationship with skill gains. You're right, it's not a good idea to use a weapon on which you are below 100% Skill Progress, but that's because you will have very poor hit/damage stats on the weapon, as you're not skilled enough to use it properly. It doesn't really have anything to do with skill gains, if I understand it correctly.

Yeah correct Oleg. It represents how close you are to reaching the required stats for the gun. So if you need lvl 10 to use a given gun, skill progress would be 90% when you reach lvl 9. Think that's how it works anyway.

[Cly]

One update I might add though is a bit more clarity around the "Condition Limit" since for a noob that might not mean anything. For instance:

"3% means that if you take the full TT-value of the gun and multiply it by 0.03 you will see the TT-value at which the weapon will no longer work for you as it is too "used up" or "damaged". In the case of my Korss, that makes it XX.YY"

or something.

And lastly I might put some indicators of the known range of Durabilities, as a reference. Even I'm not sure I know them all, but offhand I can recall...

Fragile
Poor
Average
Above Average
Good
Very Good
Excellent

But having a complete list (and any notes that folks might have to share about the durability values) might be nice.