DPS

[DarkGod]

Hello everyone

I have been on the forums a while, and I haven't been able to find much so I decided to post a thread. I am relatively new to Retribution and Elite (161 hours) and I only got the game in May, so I missed a lot of the discussions and teachings and whatnot. I want to make this a thread so that a lot of the terms can be expressed. I watch Indrid's videos, and I have no idea what these statements mean:
Piercing dps
Power melee
Heavy melee
Plasma dps

And so on. Could someone be kind enough to shed some light on these terms? For example:
"Dark Reapers do x plasma damage."
Is this damage effective against tacs but useless against vehicles?

Appreciate any and all replies

[Kvek]

http://dow.wikia.com/wiki/Retribution/Weapon_families
Here's all info you pretty much need

[Nurland]

Different damage types do different amounts of damage to different armor types.

Different damage types have different strengths and weaknesses. For example Plasma is good against HI/SHI armor types as it does 1,5 times the base dps. It does also some light damage to vehicles but it does only 0,7 times the base dps against regular infantry.

http://dow.wikia.com/wiki/Retribution/Damage_types This would probably be of more use than Kvek's link. These are the retail values and there has been some tweaks to some of them. These should be all of them:

Barrage_pvp damage against infantry_fire_resist decreased from 1 to 0.3
Inferno_pvp damage against buildings increased from 0.1 to 0.2 and against light/defence/ig_turret increased from 0.2 to 0.4
Manticore_rocket damage against building_light decreased from 1 to 0.5

[sk4zi]

HI and SHI means Heavy infantery and Super Heavy infantery.

thats marines terminators and some other units.

for example:
that practically means that plasma is good/does bonus damage versus Space marines (not scouts) and Chaos Space marines in addition to Sentinels, Terminators, Ogryns (SHI)

- Piercing ist just the normal type of damage
- Power melee is like plasma damage for melee
- Heavy melee is damage versus all targets (including vehicles) but less than power melee versus the units mentioned above.

there is also:
- Grenade damage (grenade_pvp)
- Flame damage
- Autocannon_pvp (mostly vehicles)

so overall it can be sayed that the different wheapons are good versus different Targets