Weapon perks

Equipped weapon gains experience as you kill NPCs or use Upgrade Parts on it. Upon gaining enough experience it will unlock new perks and their color will change.

First three perks on tier 3 gear are always predefined. Some tier 4 items have random perks even on first three levels.
Fourth perk you are able to chose by dialog window once you unlock it. Exception to this is when you level your weapon by Upgrade Parts then perk will be random.
Fifth perk is always random.
Sixth perk (so called "legendary") is picked from different table of perks instead of regular one. Legednary perks works only against NPCs.
Every weapon can be upgraded by Roger to gain one additional perk.

List of weapon perks

Perk Name	Effect	Works for	Random	Level 4	Event
Ammo Upgrade	Increase ammo DM mod by 1/8	Ranged only	Ranged only	Ranged only	None
Better Critical	+10 crit roll	All	All	All	All
Bonus Max Damage	Gives +5% DT penetration and +19% max damage	All	All	All	All
Bonus Min Damage	Gives 5 DR penetration and +24% min damage	All	All	All	All
Bonus Attack Speed	10% Attack Speed	All	Ranged only	None	None
Bonus Ranged Damage	+3 damage per bullet	Ranged only	Ranged only	Ranged only	All
Bonus Rate of Fire	1 AP less for attacking	All	Melee only	Melee only	None
Chip Shot	Reduce target KO/KD resist by 20%	All	All	All	All
Destroyer	Reduce target DR by 5% (normal, fire, explosive damage types)	All	Ranged only	Ranged only	None
Fast Trigger	+1 AP	All	All	All	All
Frozen Queen	Slow and Confusion effect on critical hit	All	Melee only	Melee only	None
Killing Spree	Restore 20% of MAX AP after kill	All	All	All	All
Knockback	Knockback effect on critical hit	All	All	None	All
Life Steal	Heals you for 25% of damage you deal	Melee only	Melee only	Melee only	All
Long Range	+20% hit chance, doubled hit chance bonus from Perception	All	Ranged only	Ranged only	None
More Criticals	+10% crit chance	All	All	All	All
More Critical Damage	+5-40% Critical Damage	All	None	None	None
Penetrate	Reduces your target DT to 1/5	All	All	All	None
Poison	Applies poison	All	Melee only	Melee only	None
Scoped	+4 range	Ranged only	Ranged only	Ranged only	All
Spiked	+10-60% Critical Damage	Melee only	Melee only	None	None
Smasher!	+5 ST in Heavy Handed calculation	Melee only	Melee only	Melee only	None
Slayer	+7 flat damage	All	All	All	All

Random, Level 4, Event - defines on which type of weapons can be perk obtained randomly, when reaching level 4 or by dialog during event

List of legendary weapon perks

Perk Name	Effect
More Bonus Damage	+100% damage against NPCs
Bonus Bullet Damage	+50 flat damage against NPCs
Bounty Hunter	Critical hits against NPCs are upgraded by 1 bracket
Sniper	Double critical chance against NPCs
Enhanced Knockout	Knockout effect on critical hit against NPCs

See Also

• Armor Perks
• Roger