Talk:DPS and DPM/@comment-206.78.26.55-20160225200444

You most likely do not have any longer than a minute or two of sustained fire in any given moment. Save for a boss fight, where if you don't die immediately, you could be firing and reloading for the entirety of said fight. This can extend to a very long period of time when it comes to the nightmare boss's. So I suppose we can conclude that DPM and any extended amount of damage over time is only really ever relevant when in boss combat. So then you separate your weapons between boss combat and non-boss combat. Finding exact DPM is useful for calculating a weapons utility for boss combat, in the end though, that's where the utility of that weapon ends. This is where DPS comes into play, because often times, in non-boss combat, you're dealing with a high fire rate and you're looking more towards crowd control. What I'm interested in finding out however is what is more useful for DPM, capacity or race modded or both, or would DPM be better increased with DPS style augments like OC and Deadly?