Damage boost for point damage weapons

As the title says it all.. .. Can anyone kindly explain me detail what does it means while training various members like bhurt or buzkill...

Thanks in advance

 

All point damage weapons like the blast cannon, sniper, railgun, standard cannon, and carronade (I think)

 

And explosive cannon.
Basically any weapon with fast projectile that travel relatively straight.

 

You sure about that? Explosive cannon has a radius, I figured it would be under area damage. I haven't checked for certain, but I believe that's the case.

 

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Yeah I'm pretty sure about that. Area damage on explosive cannon doesn't trigger unless you hit the boat directly. It doesn't behave like normal area damage of mortars or torpedoes where you can hit the boat surrounding and still receive splash damage.
So it's still pretty much a point and shoot weapon.

Also, I have an explosive cannon myself and the damage did increase when I upgraded that perk.
So I can confirm.

 

Actually it doesn't count as a point damage, I'm 100% sure since I had the same doubt, but when I got the captain talent I didn't get a single point in damage on my 400+ dmg ExCannon

EDIT: does anybody know if this works on flare gun too?

 

Canons? Lol what a noobs

 

Yup, unfortunatly I'm a noob at 3500 infamy with canons. I'll probably never reach your level with canons

 

Do us courtesy and please suggest better weapons.

 

Suggests standard mortars.

 

Correct me if I am wrong but explosive cannons get both point dmg buffs from dmg to all point damage weapons AND buffs from area damage from sinklaire and mortimer, so it will do more damage hitting a wall by the enemy than direct hits (just like torpedo)

Again, correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't used explosive cannon in a long time but I remember getting more damage from hittings walls/obstacles by enemies than direct hits (which I tried to do whenever possible)

 

Hey! One day I'm going to combine all the rare standard mortars I've stockpiled into a badass, possibly not, t4! I have an enforcer, it's the strongest mortar I can get

Explosive Cannon, it doesn't act like a mortar where a direct hit is point damage and all other else is area damage?
I think it would be kind of difficult to tell. Ablast cannon gives total misses where my Explosive Cannon would cause damage. Even a little off and it could be doing a lot of area damage instead of point damage.

 

I just checked my trainings and explosive cannon gets no boost from 2% buff to point damage weapons. Only from the damage buffs from sinklaire and mortimer

I have 30% boosts from bhurt. Then I have 2x +2% area of damage boosts from training and 1x +2% to point damage weapons. Hope this clears up some confusion. My total goes to 34%, not 36%, the point damage weapons boost did not affect it.

 

It makes sense though. Because it's not a point damage weapon. Since you can hit a wall and deal damage.

 

May his ship sink in peace . SIP

 

Actually, that's not how explosive cannon work. You cannot shot the wall by the enemy to do damage them. In fact you cannot shoot any obstacles in the ship vicinity to damage a ship like you can do with torpedoes, if you do it, the splash damage won't register.
You need to directly hit a ship in order to trigger the splash damage. If the ship you're shooting happens to be near another ship, then that nearby ship will receive splash damage.
Interestingly you can also shoot your teammates, if there's any enemy's ship near them, they will also receive splash damage.

Source : I have a T3 epic explosive cannon

 

You must definitely be using explosive cannon the wrong way. The explosive cannon has a range of 2 tiles and I have a video on my channel using the explosive cannon and shooting an obstacle for final kill on the enemy

 

Seriously?
I find myself in a lot of situations where I missed the shot and the projectile landed literally few inches away from the enemy with no damage.
So I just jumped into a conclusion that the explosive cannon needs direct hit in order the projectile to explode and cause splash damage.

I guess I'm gonna need to experiment more with my explosive cannon to find out, might have been using it wrong way.
Also, can you link me to your video?

 

Waves will deactivate the splash.

And yes, here it is

It's kind of hard to tell but right now I'm going to switch to my mini and show some examples

Edit: just did a few battles to see my recorder had crashed :-( so bummed out. I'll make one latet

 

Hey, thanks man.
I kinda get it now. Explosive cannon needs to hit hard surface to explode. Hitting waves will deactivate the splash like you said.
Kinda work like torpedoes, not mortars.