Info:DPS

From Dawn of War 2 Chaos Rising Statistics

Contents 1 Damage Per Second 2 DPS Formulas 2.1 Melee 2.2 Burst 2.3 Single Shot 3 Potential Issues 3.1 Melee Cooldown 3.2 Reload Frequency 3.3 Division by Zero

Damage Per Second

Revised on March 21, 2009

Damage Per Second can be misleading in a thousand different ways, but still people want to know, so here you go.

DPS may not apply to all weapons, especially one-use abilities.

Raw DPS does not account for accuracy and armor modifiers and ignores other weapon effects such as Area of Effect.

DPS Formulas

• Different formulas are applied to different weapon types, for the most part they can be classified into Melee, Burst and Single-Shot
• DPS formula is derived from the singleplayer campaign using known DPS values of wargear. The error is approx. +/- 5% or less, the error is most likely generated by rounding.

Melee

Damage Health / (Wind Up + Wind Down + Cooldown) 

Burst

Reload Frequency * Burst Duration * Damage HP / ( Reload Frequency * (Wind Up + Wind Down + Burst Duration + Cooldown) + Reload Duration)

Single Shot

Reload Frequency * Damage HP / ( Reload Frequency * (Wind Up + Wind Down + Cooldown) + Reload Duration)

Potential Issues

Melee Cooldown

• Only 3 melee weapons have cooldowns other than 0, its unclear if that value should be included but it makes sense.

Reload Frequency

• Reload Frequency of 0 are counted as 1 to avoid Div/0 errors

Division by Zero

• You will see this error if DPS cannot be calculated. For the most part it is not a problem, as many of these weapons are one shot abilities.