Today I tested various weapons dps cause I was bored. Long story short, unless you are a warlock using a god rolled heretic with demolitionist, rockets on average have a dps of about 13k-15k. While they do about 28k-36k per shot depending on archetype. Why is this bad? Well grenade launchers, for instance, have a dps of about 26k to 27k (150 rpm with spike grenades of course). Although all GLs are getting nerfed by 10%, that’s still not going to make anyone use a rocket in high end or master level content.
Now I want to be clear that I am not saying to nerf all heavies to rocket launcher levels. Rockets got changed all the way back with the season of the drifter. Cluster bombs got nerfed by something like 60-80% if memory serves me. But rockets themselves got their impact damage increased by an amount I don’t remember. I remember it was high.
Anyways, rockets since this day have been garbage. When autoloading barricades and wells got removed, rockets took a really heavy blow. If they had 2 shots per mag, for instance, that would help them significantly. Or if they got buffed by 35%-50%, which would put them on level with everything else in the heavy slot. Although that’s the dps of most special weapons (it’s about 20k).
Tl/dr: rockets are pathetic. They need a good buff.
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They were good. They got nerfed. You just got to wait for them to buff them again.
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1 ReplyRockets are Burst DPS not Sustain DPS.