Which Weapon...is The Highest Sentinel Dps.

[Knightmarez]

Firedup with formad deth rifle.....
The infested-poision pistol because it can snipe from range?

What power-gamer setups for the sentinel weapon is the best? Whatever 'best' is.

[Vaskadar]

Sweeper. It's pretty broken, still.

 

All the other sentinel weapons deserve a buff (excluding Deth Machine Rifle and Deconstructor).

Edited May 25, 2014 by Vaskadar

[DudeManThingDude]

My desonstructor does 3k dps

[Zhoyzu]

i dont use sent weapons

[Tulzscha]

Moved to the proper section.

[Darzk]

 

Stinger does more burst, but the 4 round magazine means that DMR does better damage over time.

 

Also, because of the small mag, Fired Up only provides an average of +15% Fire damage, while the DMR gets ~58% Fire Damage.

 

Meaning that when you calculate it out, the DMR does higher raw DPS than any of the other sentinel weapons (even the Sweeper), but lacks the important innate elemental of the Stinger and the status chance of the Sweeper.

 

The innate toxin on the Stinger has a notable advantage for Corpus, Ferrite Grineer and Fossilized Ancients, while the slash base and extra fire really only helps DMR against lesser Infested.

 

I prefer the Stinger on the Death Cube, but ironically I prefer the DMR on the Djinn as the hitscan weapon performs better at the insane 60m range.

 

Edit: Found my old post:

 

Something to consider: DMR makes better use of the Fired Up mod than Sweeper.

 

I'm thinking its DMR @ 30-60m sentinels, and Sweeper for Carrier. The spread on sweeper will make the dps too diluted at range, meaning its only useful at close range. Stinger tends to miss at range too.

 

Stinger's proc is hard to quantify. As far as I can tell it's a basic toxin proc, meaning +50% of base damage (pre elementals) per second, so we can treat this as an innate installed +50% toxin mod.

 

Factoring in Fired Up and the innate toxin proc, we see this:

Sweeper with +punch through = 2688 burst, 1871 sustained (+39% damage from Fired Up)

DMR with Shred = 3038 burst, 2308 sustained (+57.9% damage from Fired Up)

Stinger with Shred = 2811 burst, 976 sustained (+15% damage from Fired Up)

 

So basically DMR is always top DPS, but given the slight spinup time and lack of procs you might situationally use all three weapons. Stinger will decimate Corpus, for example, and the melee nature of infested means Sweeper is more beneficial.

 

 

TLDR: 

Stinger as pure toxin for Corpus, and good burst, but poor benefit from Fired Up

Sweeper for Status and 'right there' damage (frontloaded if you will)

DMR for sustained DPS (after the spinup has highest burst)

Edited May 26, 2014 by Darzk

[Tatersail]

Dethcube rifle using fired up is the best "dps" assuming your using maxed out heavy caliber and BANE....

 

Stinger, has slightly higher burst dps, but lower dps

 

both used on Djinn which has the best range 60m vs other sentinels

 

 

Sweeper also has good burst dps, but has shorter range and larger spread so much of the damage is lost, but honestly Vacuum is just too dam powerful not to use, and carrier only has a 10m range so your pretty much stuck with sweeper.

 

Vacuum can keep high ammo guns fed with ammo convert

Vacuum keeps your energy up by auto looting every orb

Vacuum keep you alive by auto looting health from the nekros (often see 3 players with vacuum in survival stay alive while some Joker with another sentinel dies constantly)

Vacuum keep you alive because you can take cover and and focus on shooting and combat not standing on ever last bit of ammo loot and health