Profile stat: Weapon accuracy confusion

[Valour4eva]

So how does this make sense:

Im fairly new to warframe, so I mainly used the bow a lot as my primary weapon. Use is 96% and accuracy is 62%. kills: 700+. I also do a lot of melee kills, 5k kills in total from melee. But on my profile stats, my weapon accuracy is 6%. How?!

I know no one cares about weapon accuracy as it's seen as meaningless to compare someone by that in this game, but how in the world is someones weapon accuracy calculated? I'm completely baffled.

[auxy]

I doubt even DE could answer that question. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

[Guest]

My Cernos Prime can net me an accuracy of up to 277% on a good day. I would not worry about the stat, it is as meaningless as things like number of revives per mission.

As for how accuracy is actually calculated, it is number of shots that hit enemies/base number of ammo consumed. Multishot does not artificially inflate accuracy, but multiple projectile weapons to punch through will do this a lot.

 

[Voltage]

1 hour ago, Datam4ss said:

Multishot does not artificially inflate accuracy, but multiple projectile weapons to punch through will do this a lot.

Multishot directly affects accuracy on projectile weapons. I have 474% accuracy on Prisma Twin Gremlins using a Multishot Riven.

Edited December 7, 2018 by Voltage