somewhere between 0.5 and 3 seconds...

if this is the ttk for a prototype weapon then I agree


but there will always be damage mods and prof.V

TTK is only an issue with certain weapons, pretending otherwise is disingenuous

Sniper, shotgun, nova knives, plasma cannons, etc are examples of a few weapons which probably don't need a hit to their current TTK, the current skill level combine with current modes are barely adequate as it is.

The real balancing act is getting the popular out of control weapons in line, which is never going to gain much support. I feel most would rather break the rest of the weapons into uselessness to keep the dominance and get the TTK they want, when in reality its the very dominate weapons that will probably need specialize attention to keep them effective but balanced at the same time.

I think a better question would be how long should the TTK be for a certain number of hitpoints.

Like starter or whatever.

I would be in favor of like each HP be worth, on average, 0.00333 seconds when weighed against the damage standard in game(maxed out with dmg and at proto lvl). At this point that would be the Assault rifle. If we used this simple equation as the baseline;

1200 HP = 4 seconds of continuous AR fire
600 HP = 2 seconds of continuous AR fire
400 HP = 1.333 seconds of continuous AR fire

This would also make plates and shields work out to:

Plates (no skills):
Basic: +0.28 seconds
Adv: +0.37 seconds
Proto: +0.45 seconds

Shield (no skills)
Basic: 0.07 seconds
ADV: 0.1 seconds
Proto: 0.2 seconds

Thats my 2 cents

EDIT: I just realized that formatting the plates/extenders like this shows how bad shield extenders are next to plates.

Also, the way things are right now, the AR does roughly double that damage (duovolle+dmg mods is around 650DPS).

EDIT 2:
Wow I just realized that @ around 650 DPS a standard shield extender buys you around 0.03. Yes 30 milliseconds.

Obviously, the time to kill should be like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJjYn5ZflS0