adding up these totals you've brought up, i have found you would end up with:
CTR MAX
ASI ULTRA
DMG ULTRA
so no, it would give almost max to them

A paper cannon that shoots pokey needles of doooooom! :D

I'd get your back with Shivermist any day in a setup like that. As a bonus, Shadowsun resists... shadow. So with a little fire UV, you'd actually fare all right. Although I don't think there's a need to use Swiftstrike if you're shield charging (or does ASI increase post-charge attack recovery?).

hmm, i suggest running fsc in skolver with fire uv and if there arent any issues without elemental defense, i think shadowsun be more useful than nameless

ive run with my new ASI ultra today and i didnt feel much difference on the needle compared to ASI high, only valiance seems to be alot faster

max dmg bonus and max charge would be cool i think, still a waste of effort, but what other stuff could we possibly go for at endgame? lol

The Gunslinger Guide on the wiki claims that ASI doesn't affect reloads.

Maybe your speed gain is from executing the attack faster, rather than the reload?

Alternately...I don't use guns much, but my vague recollection is that most guns don't force a reload after a charge attack? Maybe the "reload" after the Blitz charge is actually a part of the attack animation that just happens to LOOK like a reload. That would be an amusing little exploit. If that's true, ASI would affect reload speed after a charge but not after regular attacks, but you'd probably need a high-speed video capture to tell for sure.

I suppose it's also possible the wiki is wrong.

With one Elite Trueshot my Blitz Charge sometimes doesn't 1hit kill an undead or gremlin in 4--maybe 3--member parties, I would likely pop a normal shot (which also lets me start a new charge) to finish the job.

And it's a good thing there's another guy who says "ASI affects reloads".
+1 Zealousd

Don't worry, no one would believe me either when I said it in another thread.

Armor/shield UVs do not boost attack stats, only defenses and status resistance.

Weapon UVs can be used for ASI and CTR, but damage UVs on weapons only apply against a single monster class; e.g. "increased damage versus constructs". Since there are six monster classes, if you want bonus damage against all of them, that's not going to work. As Xerte says, a max universal damage bonus to guns requires you dedicate armor, helm, and both trinket slots; there's no other way to get max damage bonus against all six classes with existing items.

You could potentially decide that you only use each weapon against 2 monster classes (based on its damage type) and go for UVs against those two, but that still requires 2 UVs, which makes it a lot rarer than a single UV you want. Getting +damage UVs against two specific monster classes (if you don't care about how strong the UVs are) would probably cost over 3 million crowns at Punch's shop (10 types of UVs means that a specific combination of 2 is a 1 in 45 chance if they're all equally common, 45 tries * 75k per 2-UV ticket = 3,375,000), but it's random so there's no guarantee you'd get it even if you spent that much.

And if you ALSO want a UV to speed or charge time on the same weapon (or if you want something higher than a "low" bonus), it gets a LOT more expensive.

@Zelousd: When I tested Swiftstrike Buckler with my swords, the speed increase was only around 10%. The Blitz Needle reload takes, what, somewhere around one second? I have a seriously hard time believing that you can reliably detect a ~0.1 second difference in timing just by watching; that's certainly not "clearly apparent" to most people.

According to the time indexes on that video, the total time to charge and fire 5 charged attacks without the swiftstrike buckler is 19 seconds (+/- 0.5), and the total time to charge and fire 5 charged attacks WITH the swiftstrike buckler is 18 seconds. Which means the combined savings on the attack AND the reload is about 0.1 - 0.3 seconds per charged attack.

You are hallucinating.

1) 2 gun damage trinkets for vhigh damage is the obvious minimum.
2) shadowsun optional, but not recommended. While the extra 2 +low gun damage is alluring, for reasons already mentioned, this could make for a difficult fsc run.
3) IMO, super duper reduced charge time is less important in vana since you will be moving to ensure you are in a position that will not allow vana to mace. Even with a good shiver, if you're at this side, you wouldn't want to charge attack since the unfreezing animations will allow him to turn. With this in mind, ASI is wasted on the blitz which you never normally fire.

I have a CTR med, and I have never thought "Man, I wish I had that extra half second a ctr vhigh would give me" when doing Vana. Trojans, yes.

It sounds like you've already made your mind up about what to do. Perhaps you can post a video of your BN charge speed. It would be interesting to watch you charge up and unload a BN on a slag every 2 seconds.

IMO, you're holding the charge too long. You can increase your DPS by releasing the attack button JUST before you flash yellow. The best way to time this is to watch the condensing waves around you when charging. If you're doing it right, the yellow aura should just flash, or not even. However again, this is hard to track in vana unless you practice it till it's second nature.

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I tried my BN in the training hall both normally, then with nameless hat + swiftstrike.
I didn't use a stopwatch or anything formal, but I counted off the time it took from when I released my charge to when I could move again under both scenarios. I don't see a large difference. there is a small one, but not great enough that I would consider it better than having a proper helmet piece and shield.