Damaged Weapons from Vendors

[Elenoe]

I just bought one and it was basically like getting a gun from the gilded boxes from co ops. So yes, they are worth it. Not sure when and if there will be purples though.

a little further.. once you have a rank 2 in the faction you may buy "a box with random weapon of rare quality with a chance to be epic". That's it. You can't choose specific weapon anymore.

And for 120 reputation that's not good deal. Might get slightly better with higher rank, but the "random" part is bad. Especially when they kept telling that RNG is no longer an issue thereof trading is not necessary.

[SickoSlayer]

the higher your rep with that vendor the better the rarity

[crasher]

It would be easier to get used to the new system if Trion released detailed information about it instead forcing everyone guess.

I kept thinking about your statement over the last few days and I'm convinced that the lack of info serves several purpose for Trion.

1. They believe the discovery process is the fun part for us
2. They assume we'll be here so long that the first dozen attempts to buy stuff [with faction rep that takes a while to amass] will be so exciting that we'll forget the disappointment at getting crap that makes no sense.
3. They want to be as non-specific as possible with details, so they can alter/tune/change the 'reward' we get as they see fit - and we have no basis to call them on it.

All of the above are in keeping with standard policy of Promise/Result as seen in the past.

[Lostbytes]

I cannot find an explanation on what damaged weapons are from various vendors. I am interested in buying a Damaged M279 SAW Top-Notch LMG. The description for the weapon states that it is a Damaged M279 SAW (Condition 3). What does Condition 3 mean? Can the weapon be used upon purchase or does it need to be repaired in some fashion?

condition three refers to the stars....

A 5 star that says it does 100 damage on the description will hit for 100 damage, every star lower then 5 damage goes down by a percentage. Every star higher than 5 will go up by a percentage.

Say for example, gun hits for 100 dmg non critical @ 5 star (All numbers are for example only...i do not know the actual stats)
So a
1 star = 80 dmg
2 star = 85 dmg
3 star = 90 dmg
4 star = 95 dmg
5 star = 100 dmg
6 star = 105 dmg
7 star = 110 dmg
8 star = 115 dmg
9 star= 120 dmg
10 star= 125 dmg

TL;DR

higher stars , more damage

[WhiteStrike]

condition three refers to the stars....

A 5 star that says it does 100 damage on the description will hit for 100 damage, every star lower then 5 damage goes down by a percentage. Every star higher than 5 will go up by a percentage.

Say for example, gun hits for 100 dmg non critical @ 5 star (All numbers are for example only...i do not know the actual stats)
So a
1 star = 80 dmg
2 star = 85 dmg
3 star = 90 dmg
4 star = 95 dmg
5 star = 100 dmg
6 star = 105 dmg
7 star = 110 dmg
8 star = 115 dmg
9 star= 120 dmg
10 star= 125 dmg

TL;DR

higher stars , more damage

The percentage is 10%, if I'm not mistaken.

[Light Energy]

The percentage is 10%, if I'm not mistaken.

Yes, 10% is the total (2% per star), except since we don't have any 0 star / condition weapons in game (AFAIK) ... we never go down (-10%) to 90% damage.

weapon conditions are different based on the rarity / source of the weapons. commons are 1-3, uncommons are 2-5, rares are 3-7, epics are 4-9 and legendaries and prototypes are 5-10 and affect damage. the way it's currently balanced is rarity 1 is about -10% and rarity 10 is about +10%. so rarity 5 is the actual base damage of the weapon.
...
power and condition affect damage, rarity affects condition

The best weapon you could have in the game will be a 10 condition orange with orange mods and level 25
purple maxes out at 9 (stars)

1 star = 92% damage
2 stars = 94% damage
3 stars = 96% damage
4 stars = 98% damage
5 stars = 100% damage (base)
6 stars = 102% damage
7 stars = 104% damage
8 stars = 106% damage
9 stars = 108% damage
10 stars = 110% damage