Editing Trenchgun (section)

== Statistics ==
The [[Firebug]] [[perk]] gives discounts and bonuses to the trenchgun. While damage is not boosted, the [[support specialist]] perk still gets increased shot penetration.
=== Damage ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
!rowspan="3" style="width:3.5em"|Any perk
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!style=width:3.5em|Pellet damage
!style=width:3.5em|Burn damage over 10 secs
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|27 x 14 || 515-600
|}
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Each shell's impact damage is not affected by the Firebug perk. Dragonbreath trench cartridges fire 14 pellets doing 27 damage each totaling to 378 damage per shot with 1.5x headshot multiplier. Base damage of each pellet is 18 but all specimen have weakness against direct hit incendiary projectiles for 50%. Its shells inflict moderate damage and set specimens on fire, dealing additional damage over time. The trenchgun is one of the Firebug's most effective weapons against [[Husk]]s, [[Siren]]s and [[Scrake]]s because of its fast reload speed and potential for relatively large damage spikes compared to the [[flamethrower]] and [[MAC-10]]. Just like MAC-10, afterburn effects of Trenchgun doesn't scale with firebug level but it grants a faster handling at both reload and fire rate per perk level.

Trenchgun is a cartridge shotgun with 6 shots loaded at once in its tube with standard 50% pierce efficiency shared with other cartridge loaded shotguns. Pierce efficiency can be improved by Support perk, reducing the damage loss down to 4% per target pierced but damage is unaffected. Reloading it will be 5% slower compared to standard [[Shotgun]] with 0.7 second per shell loaded at its base which can be improved by Firebug perk. The Firebug perk also receives bonus for loading up Trenchgun up to 60% with level 6, reducing the reload time for single shell down to 0.437 second, which is slightly shorter than half second. Besides Firebug, the Commando perk can slide shells faster, reducing the reload time 0.52 second.

=== Price and Ammunition ===
{{Weapon values by level
|style= float:left
|base_cost = 1250
|discount0 = 10
|discount1 = 20
|discount2 = 30
|discount3 = 40
|discount4 = 50
|discount5 = 60
|discount6 = 70
}}
Base cost of Trenchgun is £1250 and gets 10% discount per perk level to reduce the cost down to £375. Initially bought it comes with 6 shots loaded and 18 shells on spare to maximize at 48 shots. Firebug perk again grants 10% bonus per level for maximum ammo carried, and increases the maximum ammo pool of Trenchgun to 62 shells at level 6 Firebug. Each six shot worth of shells cost £20 which makes each shell cost about a little over three pounds a piece. Full refill of the weapon costs £160 off perk and at maximum level a complete refill will cost £206.