Is that the pepperbox bullets should be enlarged. That way the bullets can hit easier, while still utilizing the knockback. Right now, the problem is that hitting with the charge attacks damage at a distance isn't very good because you pepper them with a shower of bullets, but they get knocked out of the range, severely reducing the damage, while back in the day it used to be the "I'm going to take this one monster and kill it right here" because it sucked him in, and had him take every bullet. Even if he didn't die, he'd stagger and couldn't hit you, and 80% of the time be on fire.

If the bullets were much larger, or shot much faster, the bullets would have a higher chance to do full damage from a distance, which is what a gun is. Distance fight.

That is... a terribly underwhelming gun.
/sigh and one of these days I'll craft it -_-

He was in tier 2, which is why you were seeing 30 damage. I like how people pinpoint the one little thing they expect to be bad about a certain gun, then exaggerate it. Things like that combined with OOO trolling new players by making 2 star alchemers complete crap is what makes people think gunning has no use at all and is completely inferior to something else.

It is terribly underwhelming regardless. It used to be nice to charge into something's face, well that is gone now.

You might think "oh, with knockback, it makes you safer" well yeah so does killing the thing attacking me.

The gun's design isn't to be used all the time, just to charge up on something like a lumber / gun puppy, both of which an alchemer would work.

Pretty much, what Quotefanboy said. It used to have a use, it targeted one monster and it almost guaranteed a kill. Now, it is useless survivability which would be much more helpful if you woulda just killed the dang thing. No, knockback on this is not helpful. It may seem like it, but it would become much more helpful if they removed it.