Hunter Changes... Stealth buff to melee? (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Wednesday, June 15, 2016, 18:36 (3176 days ago) @ Claude Errera

- Golden gun now does ~11k damage (up from 6000). I'm guessing the 50% buff was to the base value, and that escalated greatly due to level multipliers or something. That being said, my sniper rifle still crits for 29k.

I gotta know what sniper you use. I ran CoE last night, and my 335 1kys was only doing 12k/crit shot. (I was doing 49k/shot in Nightfall, but that's because both Specialist and Solar Burn were on, effectively quadrupling damage.)

I want a sniper that does 29k without modifiers! Can you tell me what you're using?

This was just my 335 Longbow in CoE (I have triple tap and firefly, so no damage boosting perks there). the 29k was critical damage to red health enemies; the gun does far less damage to yellow health bar enemies. Should be the same as your 1kys, so maybe the targets I noted were soft/low armor targets? Non-crit damage was significantly less as well (I don't recall the number offhand as I was looking for max damage comparison).

Huh... interesting. I think I try and reserve sniper ammo for yellow-bar enemies, mostly, so maybe I've just never noticed the massive damage done to reds. :) Thanks!

Red bar enemies have lower defense values for their heads. You basically do double damage. If you do the math and do a body shot on a yellow enemy, then look at the crit multiplier on your weapon type, then get a crit, it will be exactly what the multiplier says. Do it on a red bar enemy, and you get double your multiplier.