Water Pistol

Water Pistol is a Critical Hit specialist for enemy Hiss Shield. When a Critical Hit lands on that shield, the hit deals +50% Damage to it. It does not raise Critical Chance, and it is not a general Critical Damage Artifact.

The bonus applies only to Hiss Shield. It does not boost Dylan's Shield, a Shield ability, or every shield in the game.

The official effect is exact. The +50% is damage to a Hiss Shield on a Critical Hit, not +50% Critical Damage against every target.

Critical Hits deal +50% Damage to Hiss Shield.

Do not read this as Critical Damage +50%. The target has to be a Hiss Shield.

A Critical Hit has to land first. If that hit is striking a Hiss Shield, Water Pistol adds +50% Damage to that shield. If the enemy has no Hiss Shield, this Artifact has no damage bonus to apply.

1. 1 · Critical Hit

   The hit must already be a Critical Hit. Water Pistol does not create one.

2. 2 · Hiss Shield

   The target is an enemy Hiss Shield, not Dylan's Shield.

3. 3 · +50% Damage

   That Critical Hit deals +50% Damage to the Hiss Shield.

Water Pistol waits for a Critical Hit. It does not publish a new crit rule, and it does not add Critical Chance. A Critical Hit that strikes a Hiss Shield gets the +50% shield damage. Raising Critical Chance only makes that moment happen more often.

Amulet and Energy Drink raise Melee Critical Chance. They do not add to the 50% multiplier.

Water Pistol is a specialist, not a general-purpose Critical Artifact. Equip it when the fight has a Hiss Shield and the build already lands Critical Hits.

Pair it with Critical Chance when you expect shielded Hiss enemies. The Artifact pays off the crit. It does not supply the crit.

• Shield break

  Use Critical Hits to break a Hiss Shield faster.

• Crit payoff

  It is the shield-break payoff in a crit build, not the Critical Chance piece.

• Hiss encounters

  Swap it in for fights that actually use a Hiss Shield. The Hiss faction alone is not enough.

Water Pistol does not increase Critical Chance. After a Critical Hit lands, that hit deals +50% Damage to Hiss Shield. More Critical Chance makes the bonus come up more often. It does not make the 50% larger.

Chance and the shield multiplier are separate.

Both lines say +50%, and they are not the same modifier. Water Pistol adds +50% Damage to Hiss Shield on a Critical Hit, with no known Falter penalty. Compact adds +50% Damage to Critical Hits in general, and those hits build 30% less Falter.

Do not rank them by the number alone. One is a Hiss Shield modifier. The other is general Critical Hit damage.

Amulet adds +5% Melee Critical Chance. Water Pistol does not change that chance. When those extra melee Critical Hits strike a Hiss Shield, they deal +50% Damage to the shield.

Amulet does not give Water Pistol +5% more damage. It increases the chance, not the 50% multiplier.

Energy Drink adds +30% Melee Critical Chance while Dylan is at maximum Health, and Dylan takes +20% more Damage while it is equipped. Water Pistol turns those Critical Hits into +50% Damage against a Hiss Shield.

The match is a full-health crit build against shielded Hiss. The +20% Damage taken is the trade-off.

Water Pistol is formed from the Untapped Water Pistol blueprint through the Forgemaster in the Gap. The production data does not currently establish a safe specific Quest, Vendor, Boss, or fixed-world source for the blueprint.

Specific Untapped Blueprint source

Not verified

An unverified source is not a chest, a boss drop, or a vendor.

Link an enemy to Water Pistol only when that enemy has a Hiss Shield. Being Hiss is not the same as having the shield. Amulet and Energy Drink raise melee Critical Chance. Compact is the general Critical Damage comparison.

Water Pistol owns the question of whether a Critical Hit breaks a Hiss Shield faster. The Artifacts hub owns the catalog.