Pistol Firearm · max level 10

How the Pistol plays, where it wins and where it loses, read from its stats, traits and moveset.

The weapon's trait and the in-game description, then how its damage compares with the other Firearms.

Trait: Versatile

• High Ammunition Capacity.
• Focused on situational adaptation.

Damage against the other Firearms

Pistol

30 → 60this weapon

Musket

150 → 300

Blunderbuss

150 → 350

Damage per shot at level 1 → max level, before attack multipliers. The Blunderbuss shows its per-shot cap (every pellet hitting).

Every stat the game stores for each weapon level, the materials that level costs, and the running total from level 1.

Damage is the weapon's base per hit; each attack multiplies it (see the moveset).

Everything needed to go from level 1 to 10: 16 materials, 45,000 Catalysts if you buy every one a merchant sells.

• Standard Firearm Parts×6
• Superior Firearm Parts×6
• Exquisite Firearm Parts×3
• Masterwork Firearm Parts×1

Materials to max the Pistol

Item	Tier	Amount	Price	Subtotal (Catalysts)
Standard Firearm Parts	Tier 1	6	1,500	9,000
Superior Firearm Parts	Tier 2	6	3,000	18,000
Exquisite Firearm Parts	Tier 3	3	6,000	18,000
Masterwork Firearm Parts	Tier 4	1	Not sold	—
Total		16		45,000

Calculated from the level table × the cheapest merchant price. No merchant sells 1× Masterwork Firearm Parts: those come only from the world, so the Catalyst total covers the rest.

How the damage values rise from level 1 to 10 (+100% overall).

Hover a level for its values; the same numbers are in the level table above.

7 traits unlock as the weapon levels up. Where two traits share a slot you choose one of them: Resourcefulness / Ruthlessness, Ingenious Engineering / Robust Chamber, Automatic Mayhem / Tactical Reload.

1. Weapon lv 2
   Nephtoglobin Infusion — Bullet

   Hold [Reload] to infuse your Firearm with a Posture-breaking bullet. The infusion costs Nephtoglobin.

   • Posture damage 40
   • Hold time 1.5 s
   • Weak-point damage 10
2. Weapon lv 5
   Pick one

   Resourcefulness

   Using a Melee Attack on a shot enemy extracts a single Pistol round. This effect can only activate once per enemy.

   • Max stacks 1

   or

   Ruthlessness

   Increases the damage of your next Melee Attack based on the number of rounds fired into the enemy.

   • Max stacks 3
   • Damage 15
3. Weapon lv 8
   Pick one

   Ingenious Engineering

   Reduces reload time at the cost of a lower Ammunition Capacity.

   or

   Robust Chamber

   Increases the Ammunition Capacity.

4. Weapon lv 10
   Pick one

   Automatic Mayhem

   Drastically increases the rate of fire.

   • Time between shots 0.1 s

   or

   Tactical Reload

   Reloading an empty chamber to full capacity causes the next bullet to deal significantly more damage.

   • Damage multiplier ×2

Traits unlock at the weapon level shown. Parameters are the game's own values (seconds, metres, multipliers); [Reload] / [Attack] are your key bindings.

Clip, reload and fire rate from the game data, plus a couple of calculated figures.

• Clip size: 5
• Reload time: 4 s
• Time between shots: 0.25 s
• Ammunition: Pistol Cartridges
• Damage per full clip (level 1): 150 · calculated
• Time to empty a clip: 1.25 s · calculated

Damage falls off with distance (the game applies a range curve); figures are point-blank.

How much of each shot's damage lands at range: the game's falloff curve as a multiplier by distance.

• Full damage up to20 m
• Half damage at28.4 m
• Floor beyond 35 m10%

Multiplier × the shot's damage (Blunderbuss: the per-shot cap, every pellet landing). Linear between the curve's points and flat after the last one; the damage columns are calculated.

The Pistol is acquired in a story scene in The Battlefield; the nearest Lantern is Onslaught Arch, about 137 m away.

• Location: The Battlefield · acquired in a story scene
• Nearest Lantern: Onslaught Arch · about 137 m away (straight line, calculated)
• Show the spot on the map

Basic hits needed to bring down each boss at weapon levels 1 / 5 / 10. It takes 60 to beat General Lothaire at level 1 and 105 for Entity at level 10.

Hits to kill every boss with the Pistol

Boss	Health	Weapon level 1	Weapon level 5	Weapon level 10
General Lothaire	1,800	60 · 30 per hit · 30 to the head	43 · 42 per hit · 22 to the head	30 · 60 per hit · 15 to the head
The Iron Marshall	2,400	89 · 27 per hit	64 · 38 per hit	45 · 54 per hit
Sphinx	2,000	67 · 30 per hit	48 · 42 per hit	34 · 60 per hit
Slaughtermill	3,250	109 · 30 per hit	78 · 42 per hit	55 · 60 per hit
Anna	2,200	147 · 15 per hit · 74 to the head	105 · 21 per hit · 53 to the head	74 · 30 per hit · 37 to the head
High Justicar Aurelius	1,500	72 · 21 per hit · 143 to the head	52 · 29 per hit · 103 to the head	36 · 42 per hit · 72 to the head
Experiment 83	3,400	114 · 30 per hit · 76 to the head	81 · 42 per hit · 54 to the head	57 · 60 per hit · 38 to the head
The Orphan	4,000	134 · 30 per hit · 67 to the head	96 · 42 per hit · 48 to the head	67 · 60 per hit · 34 to the head
Captain Raphael	4,000	191 · 21 per hit · 96 to the head	137 · 29 per hit · 69 to the head	96 · 42 per hit · 48 to the head
Entity	5,000	209 · 24 per hit · 139 to the head	149 · 34 per hit · 100 to the head	105 · 48 per hit · 70 to the head

Calculated: weapon damage × the first light attack's multiplier (firearms: one shot) × (1 − the boss's resistance). Upgrades, Ambers, coatings, the stat board and phase changes are not included.

Cosmetic variants the game defines for this weapon: Grandiose Pistol.

• Grandiose Pistol

Grandiose skins are part of the game's premium cosmetic content; they change the look, not the stats.

Compare the Pistol

Side-by-side comparisons with similar weapons, or pick any two in the comparison tool.

• Pistol vs Musket
• Pistol vs Blunderbuss

Open the weapon comparison tool with the Pistol

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