Stormsurge pistol damage type

Continuing my trend of obscure requests, tried to setup a build around the Stormserpent set, eventually landing on trying a split Lightning/Cold pistol Vindicator. Never realized the stormsurge pistol magic craft weapon was a thing, and figured it’d be perfect for the build as the only light/cold double damage bonus option available with attack speed (Stormlauncher of Ultos lacks AS which makes it not ideal)

Unfortunately, stormsurge pistol is base physical damage, and has no built in phys->X. Meaning with max rolls, I’m looking at converting around 66% of that damage to ~56 light/cold average. That’s considerably under average damage for most non-physical base damage pistols (aforementioned Stormlauncher lands at 73.5 average or 31% higher base, and even amazing piercing dagallon options come in at 65).

So I’d like to request this gun move to either split base damage light/cold with values adjusted down from the current physical total ala the last major pistol overhaul, or allow it to have built in conversion so that ~85% of physical can be converted with peak rolls. Either way this is not going to breaking crucible records any time soon but could enable some additional end game capable dual damage builds.

edit: too late for poll

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It really would be nice for pistols to get some love in general, Especially that craftable which is still probably better then pewpbreaker

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Yes base damage fully physical doesn’t make sense, it should be magical. Also armor piercing % is quite high, which will gimp your conversions.

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Yup I made a build with stormserpent set and those guns, I also thought about that default flat physical damage.

+1 to the suggestion

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Coincidentally, I snuck in a change for this pistol to be pure Lightning damage for v1.1.7.0.

Didn’t think anyone would care so I didn’t even add it to the patch notes, but there you go. So, um, look forward to that I guess! :smiley:

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Thankz Z :zantai:

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