Impact is a weapon stat that increases the damage inflict by each round. Higher Impact allows the player to do more damage with her weapon given that both the player and the enemy are same levels. Additionally Impact is affected by target's Defense and the Range of your weapon vs. how far away you are firing at your targets.
Details:
This is the actual per-hit damage stat on weapons. The "bar" for this stat doesn't seem to be universal though, in the sense that a 10% value for a Sniper Rifle will result in a much bigger hit than a 10% value Auto Rifle. It's only really useful for comparing different items of the same weapon type.
Tips and Tricks
- Base damage dealt per shot. Remember that in PvE and PvP where Level Advantages are enabled, your Attack and your Level stats modify this amount. Against higher-level targets, you deal lower damage, and vice versa against lower-level targets.
- There are very few mods that directly affect the Impact stat. Most have conditional triggers you must fulfill before you can get the damage boost. As a general rule while leveling, if you have two weapons (of the same type) with Attack values that are similar, the weapon with more Impact will still hit harder on enemies around your level. Once you are looking at weapons a few levels higher that have considerably higher Attack values, even a hard-hitting, slow-firing weapon starts dealing less damage than a weaker but faster-firing weapon.
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