Best DPS upgrade options for melee/range weapons overall?

[Rail]

So I cannot decide, but I'm not that experienced in this game.

Whats the best options for weapons?

On the very basic side for element weapons, useful to have high Damage converted to X-Element or just damage %?

Priorize crit chance over raw damage? Whats about more crit damage? Is crit chance useless on sniping weapons like Gauss Rifle cuz headshots' always crits?

Something like that.

Would some experienced player answer my questions based on tests? I did my own lil testing, but I'm not really sure what I tested lol.

[torqueblue]

Originally posted by SebZ:

Originally posted by MonkeyBone:

Critical Chance and Elemental Powers (Electricity being the best) will give you the largest boost in damage in that order and when combined even the toughest enemies drop like grunts. If you want to be stupidly overpowered put as much Crit Chance as you can on an automatic weapon and just laugh at the demons.

is electricity really the best? Ive been playing more on ice and fire since i got more really high drops for those.

It's good for Melee. You attack an enemy that isn't immune to it and you stunlock 'em. They just stand there doing the jitter bug. They Higher the Duration the better. However, that isn't the case from what i've seen on t3 Insane mode.

[Brownstone]

Attach just one elemental mod and max the Elemental Focus skill so you'll have almost 100% conversion with only 1 mod. Go for crits on the other slots.

[Wasabi Wei]

Originally posted by SebZ:

Originally posted by MonkeyBone:

Critical Chance and Elemental Powers (Electricity being the best) will give you the largest boost in damage in that order and when combined even the toughest enemies drop like grunts. If you want to be stupidly overpowered put as much Crit Chance as you can on an automatic weapon and just laugh at the demons.

is electricity really the best? Ive been playing more on ice and fire since i got more really high drops for those.

I have electrical and ice and both work well imo. The chill effect is great fun, slowing them down instead of just locking them up. Freeze does almost the same as electricity by locking them in place. I switch from ice to elctrical to fire depending on resistances and ice is my clear favorite. DPS-wise both work well. Electrical is not better. I think many prefer the animation or whatever.

[JackieTheDemon]

Originally posted by Gref:

Originally posted by MonkeyBone:

Elemental Powers

There are no physical immunes so why bother with Elemental damage?

There are physical immunities. Only on T3-T4 tho

[Lythos]

Originally posted by Syzygy:

Originally posted by Gref:

There are no physical immunes so why bother with Elemental damage?

There are physical immunities. Only on T3-T4 tho

Starts from T2, as well as Elemental Immunities

[Mister Torgue Flexington]

Originally posted by torqueblue:

Originally posted by SebZ:

is electricity really the best? Ive been playing more on ice and fire since i got more really high drops for those.

It's good for Melee. You attack an enemy that isn't immune to it and you stunlock 'em. They just stand there doing the jitter bug. They Higher the Duration the better. However, that isn't the case from what i've seen on t3 Insane mode.

and yet, i'm on Tier-4 and i'm one-shotting most enemies with a 100% BoE

[Abyssrocker]

I'm curious, how does explosive ammo come into play? I've attached one gem to my Jigoku and it was a night and day difference in how much more lethal it is, despite the negative damage. Obviously there is the bonus of collateral damage, but even indivually it packs one hell of a punch.

Also curious about damage radius and stone of the other gun alt fire/special ammo gems. I've had terrific results with the springchester, then later the rajin, with a charged shot for the boys fights, but next time I'll set up an all critical based machine gun just to see. I'd love to get more use out of the reign of chaos, but starting T2 and enemies are a bit fast to be logging that around.