Damage Radius (Launchers)

On cannons like mass, Swarm and Rebounder, would damage radius mod be worth it?

How does it compare to damage mod?

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Originally Posted by Deathshot

On cannons like mass, Swarm and Rebounder, would damage radius mod be worth it?

How does it compare to damage mod?

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It doesn't seem to get any more critical hits from the projectiles. Unless you're lucky with bounces. If that helps.

The short answer is yes. Read what I wrote here if you like - it will probably answer your questions.

So after reading that, are people mostly choosing Radius to attach to Mass cannon or rebounder or swarm or are they mostly choosing damage?

I can't speak to what people are doing, but I would recommend it over damage in any case that you aren't doing direct hits - because of the mechanics shown in the thread I linked.

My Extra Life RL has +0.40, +0.40, +0.60 and x1.20 full damage radius. I wish I could get a big boomer like that (though I do have one with +0.40, +0.60 and x1.20).

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Originally Posted by Deathshot

So after reading that, are people mostly choosing Radius to attach to Mass cannon or rebounder or swarm or are they mostly choosing damage?

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I wouldn't. Instead go with a damage or min damage barrel. The reason being is the clusters that come afterwards. They don't crit and they don't have the best blast radius.

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Originally Posted by WhiteF8ng

I wouldn't. Instead go with a damage or min damage barrel. The reason being is the clusters that come afterwards. They don't crit and they don't have the best blast radius.

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That's precisely why you want full damage radius on cluster launchers. The base radius of each explosion is pretty small, so +0.60 is a huge boost (and I think makes it so that an enemy right in the middle of a ground pounder explosion will take full damage from all subgrenades). Full damage radius has nothing to do with crits.

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Originally Posted by Tekrunner

That's precisely why you want full damage radius on cluster launchers. The base radius of each explosion is pretty small, so +0.60 is a huge boost (and I think makes it so that an enemy right in the middle of a ground pounder explosion will take full damage from all subgrenades). Full damage radius has nothing to do with crits.

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A little confused as to what your hinting at. If the base radius is small then the full damage radius is also...small.

EDIT: Wait, I see what your saying but the swarm and rebounder cannons have far more spread on the clusters.

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Originally Posted by WhiteF8ng

EDIT: Wait, I see what your saying but the swarm and rebounder cannons have far more spread on the clusters.

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Rebounder cannons are pretty much just crap in my opinion. It's the only weapon in the game with which you can hit an enemy directly and still not cause any meaningful damage to it... the spread is huge, and the explosion radius is tiny. I don't think that mods are enough to compensate for that. Swarm canons have a tighter spread though, and I think the subgrenades land close enough for increased full damage radius to be good.