I am not sure how this plays in to your test but I feel like heat buildup is constantly diminishing even as it is being fired.

What this means is that not only does the operation skill play a huge role in these calculations but also time between shots.

With that being said I think your first step in this experiment is going to be testing the actual cool down methodology so that some base line for variances between shots can be at least figured into the equation.


Best I can tell the weapon is constantly cooling even while being fired.

Another variable that I feel like is going to make this a very difficult project is the fact that the actual heat build up meter does not function properly. What happens is it goes up in jumps for heat added but then as it cools the graph is smoothed similar to how health is smoothed when you take a hit from a high damage weapon. This is an issue because the graph is not syncing with true heat build up thanks to jumps being applied to an inaccurate display.

I'm sorry if that was all a bit of a jumbled mess but its a very odd mechanic which is a bit difficult to explain.


It seems to me that damage output and heat buildup are tied to the actual amount of charge when the weapon is fired. These could work independently or actually be tied together. The full damage multiplier is 3.5 meaning if you can measure the heat build up on a full shot versus a single shot and find them to be in that same area then you should have a good starting point.

I may grab some editing software to do measurements similar to what you are doing and try to give a bit of extra data for you on both an Amarr assault and a non Amarr assault.