Contraband Sky Rocket - At what level does it begin to shine and when does it fall off?

[Retroburn]

The grenade mod's description says its damage is commensurate to the player's level so I'm confused.

At what level does it begin to shine and when does it fall off?

[Draekus]

it does scale up as you level.

however,it's really only good until you find better grenades.
and it's tricky to use

after awhile, you'll need shock and corrosive grenades.

[Fr00t_L00ps]

I use them from 1 to 72 (before 80 was a thing), they never really get old.

[DocStrangelove]

It just means that its damage is always levelled up when you level up. Imagine you have a lvl 5 grenade at lvl 5 and when you level up to 6 it's replaced by a lvl 6 grenade.

It shines from the very beginning. It becomes somewhat less useful as you go through the higher difficulties, but it only really becomes useless on OP levels (because other grenades can go up to lvl 90 but the Sky Rocket is max. lvl 80 since that's the player level cap).

[Casurin]

It is one of the best all around grenades - large AoE, high damage, fire.
But it takes time to get used to it and can easily kill you.


Or in short - it only has 3 "drawbacks":

Always fire
It has not extra effect.
It only goes to lvl 80.

In UHVM it is still a great grenade, but often you want something like a Tesla against shields, slag or a singularity to pull them together. And then there are ofcourse other special effects you might want to have like a slag magic missile as that regenerates.