Question for me is, if creature levels, gun level, skill levels, etc play a factor in this, what levels are we talking about?
I bought my Ranked Scorpion at lvl 7.4 back at the beginning of January 2, 2015. It's now 8.4 and has been there a while, I hope Eomon migration helps tier this up more. I don't know if that is fast tiering or not.
The tier levels are: 59, 88, 109, 128, 102, 159, 55, 162, 102, 90
It is interesting that it seemed to go faster at 55 than what is is doing at 162, or maybe it was just my perception.
- I max the weapon since I got it. I was lvl 72 Laser Pistol (Hit) and lvl 58 Ranged Laser (Dmg) when I got it in January, I am now 77.9 hit, and 64.5 dmg.
- It has a high rate of fire at 67 attacks.
- I wanted a fast weapon because I have heard from many that equals faster skill gain and tiers.
- I have mostly kept it stacked with damage enhancers since I got it because I wanted to tier it up and read that might help(don't recall where now).
- I usually hunt mobs above my level (whatever that is, I think it means not easy hunting, but having to struggle a bit to stay alive, taking decent damage and fapping more than what you would do on an easier lvl mob) thinking that will help me build skills since I am rebuilding this avatar from chipping out years ago.
I don't know how all that would work out for the discussion, but hope it helps.