Why weapon with lower stats has better damage? Can someone explain it?

[lastbreath]

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I tried these two weapons on the same enemy types. The first one causes 680 points of damage with every bullet. While the second one does 740 damage! But why if the first rifle has better damage stats? It has even higher LEVEL but still does less damage! WTF???

[Floppy]

What weapons and archetypes are they?

[lastbreath]

First is impulse rifle, the second is machine-gun

[Illusive Soul]

auto rifle always had abit lower damage ? because the rapid fire tho.

[lastbreath]

But here machinegun has higher damage with lower stats!

[Illusive Soul]

machine gun suppose to had hight damage i think ? it using Purple ammo. Auto Rifle and Machine Gun has a Huge difrent,i assume you talking about Auto rifle.

[lastbreath]

OK, this is not heavy machinegun, it uses usual ammo. This is weapon with fully automatic fire. So, why auto rifle with lower stats has better damage than impulse rifle with better stats and higher level?

[Nibbie]

Power level bonuses are capped against enemies. Once you are something like 50 power level above an enemy, increasing your power level more doesn't do anything. This keeps you from doing hundreds of percent more damage to enemies in lower level content, such as strikes and earlier raids. Thus, one weapon having a higher power level than another doesn't matter if both put you at least 50 points above the enemy you are shooting.

You also aren't considering weapon types. Different weapons do different amounts of damage, and even among the same weapon classes there are different values based on frame and RPM. I can't see what weapon you are comparing that with, but I can see that they have different frames, and if they are different types of guns (Pulse Rifle and Auto Rifle I would guess from your reply), then that is likely the answer.

[Emil]

Originally posted by lastbreath:

OK, this is not heavy machinegun, it uses usual ammo. This is weapon with fully automatic fire. So, why auto rifle with lower stats has better damage than impulse rifle with better stats and higher level?

Because of high impact reserves pumping up the damage

[lastbreath]

So what is the reason in that stat bars if they doesn't represent real situation? Why there are comparison windows if they doesn't make correct comparison ?

[Illusive Soul]

impact reserve is a perks,it wont show on wepon damage cuz its a "Perks"

[lastbreath]

Oh shi... I have to check that!

Ok, if we start a chat about weapons... I have revolver and sniper rifle with the same stats. What is better?

[DKlimax]

Originally posted by lastbreath:

So what is the reason in that stat bars if they doesn't represent real situation? Why there are comparison windows if they doesn't make correct comparison ?

IIRC those stats cannot be compared between two different clases of weapons. (Goes for all weapon stats) They are relative numbers, not absolute.

[Illusive Soul]

Bungie wepon stat confuse like always.

[Ducky]

Same with bows and sniper rifles.....most bows have even a much higher impact stat than some sniper but bows not even doing half that much dmg as the snipers

[DKlimax]

Also there is another aspect in play: Each armor piece has associated light and each light improves some classes of weapons (besides affecting which mods can be used)