shredder

[Candarian]

what uprade shredder?
tech?
dynamite?

it feels like the explosion mentioned is just piercing damage

[AN]

ranged damage and explosive modifications, the piercing and the chance to explode are separate

[thunda]

All explosive guns deal explosive dmg, even if theyre scaled by something like ranged. So Dynamite with its +15% explosive dmg applies +15% dmg to all explosive guns, like rocket launcher, nuke, shredder etc.

Ignore the explosion part of the guns, thats just an aoe modifier. The dmg type itself is Explosive, even if the projectile doesnt explode that time, like with Shredder.

[Candarian]

so shredder is just piercing damage that do more damage with upgrade but dont explode?

[thunda]

Originally posted by Candarian:

so shredder is just piercing damage that do more damage with upgrade but dont explode?

What? Shredder does explosive damage. All weapons with the tag "Explosive" deal purely explosive dmg, regardless what they scale with. So any item that says "+ something explosive" affects them.

Every Shredder projectile launched, whether it actually explodes or not, deals explosive damage. So any item that affects explosive dmg or area in any way, affects the dmg or area of effect Shredder does no matter what.

Though the "increased explosion radius" items or whatever only applies to the Shredder rounds that do explode.

[AN]

Originally posted by Candarian:

so shredder is just piercing damage that do more damage with upgrade but dont explode?

Piercing is not a kind of damage, it just tells you how many enemies the projectile will pass through before stopping. Shredder does explosive damage whether the bullets hit their explode chance or not, so dynamite always boosts its damage.

[HeraldOfOpera]

It also says in-game that it's boosted by ranged damage, and it's not an engineering thing so it's boosted by generic damage and attack speed.