Results of testing Long 2 and Long 3 damage bonus on Wyrmstake Ticks after the patch

After the patch there has been a direct increase to the Wyrmstake tick portion of Long type shelling, these tests were made to know the % damage increase and if it affects element or not.

Test conditions:

\- All compared gunlances must have the same ATK to be properly compared, due to the limited pool of weapons bearing the exact shell type and level, different degrees of Peak performance and Agitator have been used to simply gain the necesary attack when needed, and it has been noted how much it has contributed to reach the intended Raw testing value.

\- There was no food buff and no powercharm.

\- All WS tick values taken are the non-crit values.

\- All the tests were performed on a 1 star Trainning Dummy, on Soft and Hard configurations and No Wounds. (This means 0,8 Hitzone and 0,3 Elemental Hitzone for Soft, and 0,4 Hitzone and 0,15 Elemental Hitzone for Hard).

\- Edit: Some non-final upgrade weapons were used to match Raw, so even if you see (for example) Esperanza GL, I actually used the previous 190 raw upgrade and added +10 Raw with Peak performance 3 so it reaches exactly 200 Raw.

First, on Long 2:


Second, on Long 3:


Conclusions:

\- **Long 2 has gained 14,28%** on their Wyrmstakes **before Artillery.** (I did not calculate with Artillery as there is no current reason to pick a lower shelling level Gunlance). \- Normal and Wide keep dealing 6% of raw on Shelling lvl 2 per tick. \- **Long 3** has gained **12,98%** on their Wyrmstakes **before Artillery**. \- **Long 3** has gained **12,5%** on their Wyrmstakes **after Artillery.** \- Normal and Wide keep dealing 7% of raw on Shelling lvl 3 per tick. \- All **the increases do not affect the elemental portion** of the damage. \- **Every tick of WS deals 0,5 element value**, no matter the Shelling type or lvl. \- **The numbers match exactly with an increase of 1 MV per WS tick**, Long type has gained this +1 MV on all its levels.

That is all, I hope you can find something useful out of this and may your weapon always be reloaded. Happy hunting.