What is the laser duration skill?

[Knight Siegfried]

It says - certain %. Does that means my lasers will shoot much quicker? It's very vague on what it even does

[Lunri]

It reduces the length of time your lasers burn to do full damage EG: you fire a laser it burns for 1 second say a laser duration skill reduces it by 10% now it burns for .9 seconds pretty simple but the description could use some work I agree.

[Knight Siegfried]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Lunri:

It reduces the length of time your lasers burn to do full damage EG: you fire a laser it burns for 1 second say a laser duration skill reduces it by 10% now it burns for .9 seconds pretty simple but the description could use some work I agree.

I appreciate the reply. Thanks

[Ishan451]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Bjorn Ironside:

It says - certain %. Does that means my lasers will shoot much quicker? It's very vague on what it even does

The way lasers work in this game is by doing a stream of damage, in a certain duration of the beam.

Duration effects how long the laser is on and needs to do all its damage.


To add to Lunri's explanation above... if we take that hypothetical laser, that has a duration of 1 second, and say it does 10 damage, then the laser would do 1 damage every 100ms it is on the enemy. Meaning if you cannot keep the laser for the full duration on the enemy (or the compartment of the enemy, which you want to damage - which is what commonly is refered to as armor rolling or rolling the damage), then your laser will not do its full damage, but just a fraction of it.

Having shorter duration means it will do its damage quicker, the cool down of the laser will not be effected by that skill, just the burn time of the laser.

[Shotgun]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Ishan451:

Having shorter duration means it will do its damage quicker, the cool down of the laser will not be effected by that skill, just the burn time of the laser.

Just to add: since the cooldown of the weapon starts after the cycle completes, this skill also effectively functions as a cooldown skill for lasers as well.