Okay, so if the multiple wires are made, would the damage stack if one wired enemy moves into another enemy's wire as you make the pulse?

All guns should have 2 or more shots in a clip, or players will have to wait for reloading before starting to charge.

It seems that this problem will be increased even more with this gun, and multiple shots just don't seem to fit it anyways.

(I wanted to make sure it even had a charge before mentioning this.)

Why would I ever use this gun, unless it had ridiculous damage values? It'd be very difficult, or at the very least time-inefficient, to line up more than one enemy in harm's way, especially when the tether only lasts for 3 seconds. And when it only hits one target, there doesn't seem to be any advantage over other guns except that you can't miss once the tether's connected. Except that if you miss the first shot and the tether doesn't stick, you have to reload.

Some ways I think you could make this more viable:

• Increase the tether max range (not the cast range) significantly. Somewhere around 15-20 tiles.
• There's no need to make the player spam the attack button if there's no disadvantage to firing as fast as possible (MSI penalty, reloading, etc). Instead, make the damage ticks trigger automatically once the tether connects.
• Not being able to do anything other than use the weapon and move (including shield, take damage, dash/bash, or consumables) is enough of a penalty for continued use, so remove the 3-second timeout. Instead, since we just got rid of the need to spam 'attack' while connected, make 'attack' disengage the weapon from all targets. In effect, you attack once to start doing damage, and the damage continues until you are interrupted or you attack again.
• The charge is boring. Make it a shot that pierces through enemies, so using a charge shot into a crowd of enemies will tether each one. Then the damage ticks from the tether do more than during a normal attack. Visually, it could have a thicker and flashier tether.
• For upgraded versions of the weapon (4-5*, assuming it starts at 3*), make it shoot 3 and 5 tethers in a cone, respectively. An enemy can only be hit by one tether at a time (per player), so if the hitboxes overlap the additional tethers bounce off. The cones would be 3- and 5-tiles wide at max range. For reference, a Magnus charge shot is 1 tile wide, a Voltedge explosion is just over 3 tiles, an autogun's basic attack cone is 5 tiles, and an autogun's charge attack cone is 7 tiles.
  

I think I'm a bit confused about how the sticky works in that case. How will it be effective in a mob? Won't it just hit the closest enemy to you, and the others will be unaffected? Also I did a bit of range testing, and 15 range is the size of the screen, give or take. If you make the range 10, that basically means if you tether an enemy at max range, you can't move away from it at all without breaking the tether.

Say you have a group of 10 slags in FSC. You fire the weapon into the group, and it hits the first zombie in its path. Now, unless the enemies behind the first one move in front of it, or you walk around to the back, only the first enemy takes damage, correct?

I take it we're getting rid of your 3-second idea then, because there's no way you can reasonably maneuver multiple enemies into the damage area and get meaningful damage off in that time.