Wintersdark, on 04 January 2016 - 12:29 AM, said:
This is to be expected.
Lasers "hit" if only one tick does damage - a miniscule amount. Likewise, hitting at > optimal range does less damage too.
It's not like a Medium laser actually does it's full 5 damage very often in practice.
Compare, if you will (if you run Clan and IS mechs) what your Clan ERLL effective damage is vs. an IS LPL, for example. The long duration on the cERLL results in a tremendous inefficiency in actually applying damage.
Rogue Jedi, on 04 January 2016 - 12:25 AM, said:
Tarogetto is correct, the stats can be misleading,
I have 78.66% accuracy with the Medium Laser I have fired it 24,724 times, an ML can do 5 damage per shot but I have "only" done done 45500 damage with it, so I have done 36.8% of the maximum potential damage from the Medium Laser based on the weapons stats, however the stats page shows 78% meaning I am usualy hitting but when I hit I am doing about 2.3 damage, or a bit under half the potential damage
It's not even that. It's that the weapon stats are just plain inaccurate and wrong.
For instance, I've had 94 matches in my LCT-3S, which has always and forever had 3x SRM2 or 4x SRM2 on it. On my weapon stats page, it says I've played SRM2 in only 40 matches.
Another example: my Huginn has always had SRM4 equipped, I've done over 63,000 damage in my Huginn over 190 matches. Yet my SRM4 stats say 43,000 damage in only 164 matches (I've equipped plain SRM4's on other mechs, too... )
And another: it says I've hit with my IS gauss rifle 1,249 times. I've dealt 19,247 damage with my IS gauss, which means that I'm dealing 15.41 damage per shot, which is more damage than gauss is capable of and critical hits to internal equipment aren't counted toward damage. Same thing with my Clan gauss - 15.47 damage per hit, which is impossible.
Some people in my unit also have accuracy percentages that read over 100%. The weapon stats page simply can't be trusted, not a single part of it. In my experience, however, I've found the mech stats page to be very accurate.
Edited by Tarogato, 04 January 2016 - 02:35 AM.