2h vs MH/OH

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Playing a Demolitionist/Arcanist, and I’ve realized that there’s nothing quite as fun as shooting my giant blunderbuss into a group of undead, and watching the ragdoll physics send them flying. Never gets old.
However, I have realized that there’s something weird about stats between wielding some kind of rifle, and two pistols.

My current rifle tells me that it gives me +500 dps over the two pistols I’m using. I feel like that can’t be right. What am I not getting about this? I would think that two weapons shooting for 1500 each 1.7 times each second would do more damage than one weapon shooting for 2500 1.5 times each second.

Maybe I’m bad at math, but something here is not adding up. Please, forums, be better at this than me. Explain what I’m missing. :slight_smile:

:confused:

I will note, I feel like I’m better able to react to new mobs/mob deaths faster with two pistols, but I haven’t yet decided if I’m killing things faster. Bosses seem to kill me less often since I switched to twin pistols, though.

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because of kraken?

3

There’s too many unknown variables for anyone to be able to reasonably estimate where the difference comes from. A screenshot of the weapons might help. Even then, the DPS estimator doesn’t take into account stuff like offensive ability and critical hit damage.

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We can’t help you without seeing your build. Post a grimtools link if you want some advice.

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1500 * 1.7 = 2550
2500 * 1.5 = 3750

Difference of 1200 damage. Note that DW pistols do not always use both pistols on every attack. There’s some % chance you’ll shoot with the mainhand only, some % chance you’ll shoot with the offhand only, and some % chance you’ll shoot with both. So, yes, in actuality the difference between the DW damage and the 2H damage is smaller than 1200, but it’s unlikely that DW would be better in this vacuous example.