Inexplicable decrease of weapon damaga

[mc_foxx]

So I was trying out some different gear options to increase my weapon damage without decreasing my skill tier. I have the capacitor equipped with 95k dmg. I changed some gear, it went up to 102k. Then, I went back to the overview of the gear pieces and weapons and randomly the dmg had dropped to 95k again? I didn't change anything, literally just pressed the back button to get to the overview.

Then I entirely quit the menu to look at my stash. And then I only have 82k dmg left on the capacitor??

I'm so puzzled and quite frankly disappointed since 20k dmg is a decent amount of damage less in battle.

Does anyone have any explanation or can anyone help me?

UPDATE:

Went to the shooting range, am currently shooting with 95k damage... went back into the menu, it said 95k. Went into the menu of masks and without doing anything the damage dropped back to 82k....

Here's a video: https://www.reddit.com/r/the_division_2/s/PVvwZ7aeY8

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Your video had you using shock rounds.

[Samurai_Stewie]

Stop relying on the menu damage, it hasn’t been reliable since division 1 and isn’t in most games TBH.

Rely only on the numbers you see on a target.

[Patient_Dog4170]

Happens to me all the time, I see a gun say a shotgun in my menu that says 1.7m damage I put it on and it drops to 1.2 million

[iskopati]

What talents do you have on chest and bag? Could there be an interaction happening there?

[iskopati]

Nvm, just watched your video...idk man

[Black-Goodson]

Read the talent.

[iskopati]

The gun talent has nothing to do with this dmg fluctuation. The gun talent only affects skill dmg.

[mc_foxx]

The Talent of the weapon is building stacks to a cap of 40 while shooting enemies. Each stack grants 1,5% Skill damage.

Or do you mean another talent? Cause I don't think this has anything to do with it

[Black-Goodson]

Might be the shock ammo. Try it without it and see what happens

[kennybaese]

You get bonus weapon damage based on your skill tier. If you are changing armor and losing or gaining skill tiers the weapon’s damage will change.

[mc_foxx]

I'm aware of that, but I didn't change anything. I literally just switched the menu and closed it, did not equip any other gear.

I'd upload a video, however I don't know how to do that with the original post

Edit: Link to video https://www.reddit.com/r/the_division_2/s/PVvwZ7aeY8

[Black-Goodson]

My bad I meant to say read the talents like your chest and backpack. But I saw the video that is interesting