Epic Weapon does less damage than Ultra Rare?

skurf

I was in the process of upgrading an anti-proton Dual Beam Bank to Epic when I realized that the damage and DPS actually shows lower for epic than ultra-rare in the upgrade window. Is this a visual bug or will I actually be losing damage on the weapon if I upgrade? The sad thing is I already spent a lot of EC and Dilithium trying to upgrade it and now I'm stuck in limbo.

Ultra Rare:
http://imgur.com/on09lk0

Epic:
http://i.imgur.com/McPRPOU.png

Also, the same thing happens with the crafted Plasma Emission Torpedo.

borticuscryptic

This is a visual bug.

A good amount of the extra damage that is applied to high-quality items comes from innate bonuses attached to their [Mod]s and the Upgrade UI Window doesn't properly know how to predict what those will be, so it cannot apply them.

Note the [???]x5 on the tooltip.

skurf

If I'm understanding what you're saying, the upgrade window is not computing the modifiers into the damage. However, I have no DMG mods on the weapon, which means the base damage is still showing lower for the epic weapon. In the end, the epic weapon might end up being a little higher because of the DMG mod added by the epic upgrade, but it appears that it will actually be a slightly lower base damage for the epic. This does not seem right to me considering how much it costs to upgrade to epic. What's the point of adding a DMG mod if you're lowering the base damage? Seems a bit of an oxymoron.