Dartling Gunner crosspath

[Ice Princess]

Howdy y'all, got a question regarding the dartling gunner. If you're going full top path (the lasers), does the 2nd upgrade from the 2nd path actually do something? It's called faster barrel spin which makes the dartling gunner fire much faster, however since I wanna go full top path does it actually increase the rate of fire because essentially lasers can't have a faster rate of fire. Or can they?

[PichuYang]

It does affect, either focal point or pass through damage.

[DanaO]

Even beam and area of effect weapons like explosives have a pierce count: a maximum number of targets they can affect in one "tick" of game logic. I don't have the numbers to tell you just what the effect of using Faster Barrel Spin actually is (and this subtle stuff actually gets rebalanced because for the segment of the playerbase who play waves well past 100 it stops being subtle), but there would be an effect of some kind just from giving the "continuous beam" a faster fire rate.

At the least, if you're going x/1/0 it's probably worth the money to make that an x/2/0 between waves 80 and 100, and for some defense setups the upgrade becomes worthwhile before wave 80.

[All talk and no fight]

definately affects the pierce limit- try out ray of doom against stacks of 999 ceramics with a group of 0. if you spawn like 5 or 6 in quick succession the ray of doom doesnt get the ones in the back till the front ones are dead. can test to see how better faster barrel or powerful darts is from there.