#Please Look Forward To Eleanor's CT Ranking Feat. Shotgun Memes

[commander-frostii]

Today I got around to doing something I’ve meant to do for a really long time now, which is actually field-testing shotgun’s targeting and damage spread capabilities. 

You may or may not know that I love shotguns dearly and I love the idea of shotguns being used as primary DPS, so I have been workshopping different ways of building and fielding SGs trying to find a proper use for them. Their ability to target multiple enemies sounds really powerful, but I wasn’t able to find any resources or examples displaying exactly how it works, and have just kinda had to go on observation/intuition, which I kept revising to be more conservative. 

Going into this test I assumed that the “target 3 enemies” idea is within a group of linked enemies - that is, they deal damage 3 times to a single group of enemies if there are 3 enemies within that group, but they only do damage once to a group with one link. This would mean they’re not dramatically more powerful than other damage-oriented weapons even in the optimal case, because they can still only kill one linked enemy at a time. 

That is, uh, not the case. 

It turns out that Shotguns being able to “target three enemies” means they break the targeting rules, and can shoot at three distinct enemy groups in one volley - dealing one hit of damage per dummy link to each of them. When SPAS’ skill is active this increases to 5 groups. If her FP is high enough and the enemy HP is low enough, she could kill 5 enemy groups in one volley. 

So. Now you know.

#gfl #eleanor.txt #spas-12 #i'm honestly over the moon #i already believed that spas was good but this is a whole other level of good #this is honestly a terrifying amount of power #Please Look Forward To Eleanor's CT Ranking Feat. Shotgun Memes