The Duvolle has a 31% damage increase per second over the standard that alone is a reason for it to be so expensive. 31% is more than than lv5 weaponry and 2 complex damage mods, then you have the people who put on damage mods and have weaponry lv with a Duvolle. So not only does it have a passive 31% increase over the standard that gap only gets even further away as you apply skills and damage mods.

For me this is enough to reason such high price for proto AR, I have not figured out the other weapons damage increase do to the lack of interest in those weapons on the forums.

If you don't believe me I will show you my logic and math to get these numbers.

I already stated the percentage difference in the standard to the proto for you in an earlier post

The standard rifle gets off 12 round a sec. Ydubbs stated due to movement in target and kick from gun you get about 5 to 6 rounds per 12.

The standard does 31 damage per round. So in 1 second you deal 186 damage to the target with this hit percentage, since there is not damage reduction on shields or armor from for an AR that I am aware of.

I stated that with level 5 AR OP you have less kick and dispersion and the Duvolle has an increased acurracy so you should get more rounds into you opponent, but only went with one more round out of 12. So you hit 7 out of 12 rounds with the Duvolle.

The Duvolle does 34.1 damage per round. So in 1 second you deal 239 damage. This is 52 more damage in 1 second.

This gives total of a 28% percent increase(sorry my original number was an off the top with mental math this was found using a calculator) in DPS. These numbers are without any damage buffs from skills or modules. Which also plays more towards the Duvolle, because the Duvolle has a higher DPS and the mods and skills are % based then it gets a better bonus from them than the standard as well.

This is a good increase that only gets better as you skill for damage.

I refer you to your corp-mate's spreadsheet. It supports my point, that proto fits are still considerably stronger than militia fits. Look at the entire fit... not just the weapon.

You're right, the weapon aspect means little when its JUST the weapon your talking about. When it's the fit including suits/modules/etc, the differences are much bigger.

example
all militia fit is free
all proto/complex fit is say 150k isk

The tanked health and even slight damage advantage the proto fit has, downs the militia player in 12 rounds.
The militia player takes 23ish rounds to kill the proto.
The proto player is twice as strong!

If you take two proto fits, and one uses duvolle, the other uses exile rifle.
The full proto fit will be able to eat 2 or so additional bullets... yest not a big difference.
BUT, the price difference isn't 150k isk to 0. It's 150k isk to about 80k isk (cant remember exact cost of duvolle)

lol, wth game did you come from? 20 bullets to kill someone is low?