SSO Oddity: The 10 round pre-and-after patch story

So I finally got 6K on my main and am going back through inventory and mastering old ojs. I already had a 4-round Zagger but that was pre-patch, this is an FRC Heavy Sawed-Off Scattergun that at the time was unmastered. So imagine my surprise while running Smashing the Smugglers when suddenly I was killing Raiders one after the other without reloading! Somehow I got a Mag mastery role:

http://hulkercafe.com/bugs/no-score/sso-oddity.jpg

I thought those rolls were long removed for sawed-offs. With some great mods this thing would still be a beast despite no white or blue rolls lol

if this is the first time mastering this pre patch weapon there's the possibility of getting the +8 mag mastery AFAIK

Someone told me months ago that it is posible to get mag mastery on street sweeper

A lot of people believe that the mastery is generated after you fill up the mastery bar which is why some believe that using a gun in a specific way influences the outcome (ie. shooting enemies in the back causes you to get 15% damage from behind), however this is isn't the case. The mastery is set when the gun is generated or when the mastery is reset by the player and it is revealed after the bar is filled up. So in this case the gun was created with a +8 mag mastery and you just revealed it. Congrats on discovering what is a relatively rare gun.

Sweet shotty Club

Damn that's old lol.

Do not remaster it whatever you do!!!
You got the mag mastery because it was the only time that weapon was used. That must have been sitting in your inventory for quite a while unused.
If you try to remaster, it will draw from new mastery pool and there is no mag for sawed-off shottys. The gun is extremely rare as is.

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Originally Posted by r1p

The mastery is set when the gun is generated or when the mastery is reset by the player and it is revealed after the bar is filled up.

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Thanks for that, now things make sense...in a Y2K bug kinda way lol as a programmer since the 1970s making the sort of assumption that possible mastery values would never change was shortsighted, it should be calculated when mastery hits. I still have a few to master, I wonder what will be revealed!

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Originally Posted by DeMoNofDEATH

Sweet shotty Club

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Thanks! I'm not a PVPer but I'm guessing with the right mods this would be pretty devastating in there if you were a sneaky cloaker.

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Originally Posted by Bentu

Damn that's old lol.

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Yeah it is lol I had a couple dozen ojs to master, quite a few before white rolls were added, and many others pre-patch. I'd have to search but I'm pretty sure there's a triple mag bonus blaster and triple crit Wolfhound, though they may be purps.

Rolling Blackout has been very help in this endeavor, in the last major I mastered seven of the weapons, all well below my EGO level like this one.

Congrats. I had about 15 weapons that I had to master from the good ole days. None of my sawed offs pulled the +8, you have a fine treasure there.

Be on the lookout for the +self revive on kill as it is the other rarity from the old guns.

if thats on xbox 360 i want it LOL i got me a 10 shot brutal courier thats dbl dmg