Talk:Gekko/@comment-33698872-20171223125737/@comment-27346978-20171224184701

I think so that things don't get an overly large amount of damage or HP.

Basically, they have it so that you get a 10% increase each upgrade, right? Now, if a Thunder was a level 1 with its base damage, at level 12, the Thunder would have... a bit more than 1.5x the damage it does right now.

That's around 25k per shot.

yeah... so I think that's it. Which actually also kind of a reason that the new weapons are so good, since all the silver and gold counterparts basically get 5 levels less of damage scaling.

and yes, I know that they could just nerf the damage at level 1, but there are probably other reasons too.