Zero Company Weapon Mods

Increases Blaster Damage at Close Range.

What it is for: The one damage line with a positional price attached, and that makes it a Pistol mod almost by definition — the Pistol is the only weapon whose optimal band is Short, so it is the only one already standing where this pays. Fitted to a Longarm it is a mod that rewards being in the wrong place. Nothing published says what Close Range is in metres, which is the gap between knowing this is good on a Pistol and knowing how good.

1. 1/4 Amplifier — no value published for this step[1]
2. 2/4 Second Generation Amplifier — no value published for this step[1]
3. 3/4 Dual Amplifier — no value published for this step[2]
4. 4/4 Crystalline Amplifier — no value published for this step[2]

• What "Close Range" is in metres, and whether it is the same band as the Pistol's Short range or a tighter one inside it.
• Whether it applies to Sidearm Attacks. Quick Draw's tooltip says that ability receives no benefit from Weapon Mods, so at least one attack in the game is excluded from this line.
• What each step is worth. Only the line's span is published, and three lines are demonstrably not evenly spaced, so a step with no value below has none — it has not been estimated.
• Where any step is obtained, and at what rarity. No source gives an acquisition route or a rarity for a line as a line.

Step 3 is the one name in this line another source carries: Hack the Minotaur's mods page lists a Dual Amplifier under BARREL with the effect "Increases Blaster Damage when firing this blaster at Close Range". Same slot, same effect, same word — which corroborates the line's slot independently of Power Up Gaming, and is the reason this family is not resting on two sources that could both be reading the same list.

Increases Critical Hit Damage when firing this blaster.

What it is for: A multiplier on somebody else's work. Critical Hit Damage is added on top of base damage only on a critical, and every weapon in the game criticals 5% of the time unmodified — about one shot in twenty. So the whole line is bought second, after critical *chance* from the Scope slot's Critical line, from Keen Eye or from a Scoundrel's Identify Weakness. Buy it for the weapon firing the most expensive shot rather than the most shots, which is the exact inverse of where the Ion and Incendiary lines belong.

1. 1/4 Single Coil Condenser — no value published for this step[3]
2. 2/4 Dual Coil Condenser — +3 Critical Hit Damage researched[2]
3. 3/4 Spiral Condenser — +4 Critical Hit Damage[3]
4. 4/4 Dual Spiral Condenser — no value published for this step[2]

• What steps 1 and 4 are worth. The span says +2 to +6 and the middle two are +3 and +4, which reads as +2/+3/+4/+6 — and reads is not knows.
• Whether the bonus is added to the weapon's Critical Hit Damage figure before or after other modifiers, which decides whether two sources of it are worth twice one.
• Where any step is obtained, and at what rarity. No source gives an acquisition route or a rarity for a line as a line.

The most useful line in this file, because it is the one that breaks the tidy assumption. A span of +2 to +6 over four steps invites the reading +2/+3.33/+4.67/+6, or failing that four evenly spaced integers. The two published middles are +3 and +4, from an Armory item card and from the catalogue, so the real line rises by one, one, then two. Every other family's `unknowns` carries the interpolation caution because of this one. It is also the best-corroborated ladder here. Step 1 is named by Hack the Minotaur in English and by Dr33dTV in German ("Einzelspulenkondensator"), step 2 comes off a frame of the Armory, and step 3 is named by Hack the Minotaur and used in a published build. Four steps, four independent naming sources between them.

Reduces an enemy's Defense when this blaster hits. The reduction expires at the end of the turn.

What it is for: The only mod line that helps the rest of the squad rather than the Operator carrying it, and that is the whole argument for it. Defense here is flat damage reduction subtracted from every hit, so stripping 4 of it off a target is worth 4 damage to *every* attack the squad lands on that target for the rest of the turn — which makes it a mod for whoever shoots first, not for whoever shoots hardest. It is the Scoundrel's armour penetration bought with a Barrel slot instead of a Specialization, and it goes on the Pistol that opens the turn with three cheap shots rather than on the Longarm that closes it.

1. 1/4 Basic Adjuster — no value published for this step[1]
2. 2/4 Phase Adjuster — no value published for this step[2]
3. 3/4 Pirate Adjuster — no value published for this step[1]
4. 4/4 Enigma Adjuster — no value published for this step[2]

• Whether the reduction stacks with the Scoundrel's armour penetration, or whether the two describe the same subtraction.
• Whether two Operators both carrying an Adjuster stack their reductions on one target.
• Whether it can take a target's Defense below zero.
• What each step is worth. Only the line's span is published, and three lines are demonstrably not evenly spaced, so a step with no value below has none — it has not been estimated.
• Where any step is obtained, and at what rarity. No source gives an acquisition route or a rarity for a line as a line.

Provides a chance to restore 1 AP after attacking with this blaster.

What it is for: The only mod line that touches Action Points, which makes it the only one whose value depends on how many attacks a turn contains rather than on what each attack does. Three Points a turn and a Pistol at 1 AP a shot means three rolls; a Longarm means one. At the top step that is roughly one extra Pistol shot every two turns and one extra Longarm shot every seven — the widest gap between weapons of any line here. It is also the only mod that can make a turn go long: a refunded Point can be spent on the attack that refunds another.

1. 1/4 Rapid Cycler — no value published for this step[2]
2. 2/4 Turbo Cycler — no value published for this step[1]
3. 3/4 Lightning Cycler — no value published for this step[1]
4. 4/4 Quicksilver Cycler — no value published for this step[2]

• Whether the roll happens per attack or per turn. On a three-shot Pistol turn that is the difference between three chances and one, and it is the same question left open on the Lightweight line.
• Whether a restored Point can itself be spent on an attack that rolls again.
• Whether it fires on a miss, or only on a hit. The published wording says "after attacking", which reads as either.
• What each step is worth. Only the line's span is published, and three lines are demonstrably not evenly spaced, so a step with no value below has none — it has not been estimated.
• Where any step is obtained, and at what rarity. No source gives an acquisition route or a rarity for a line as a line.

Hack the Minotaur names step 1 under BARREL — "Rapid Cycler: Provides a chance to restore an AP after attacking with this blaster" — which is where the slot assignment for this line is corroborated independently of Power Up Gaming. Note the wording difference that matters for the unknown above: Hack the Minotaur says "an AP" and Power Up Gaming says "1 AP", and neither says how often the chance is rolled.

Increases Blaster Damage during the first turn of each combat.

What it is for: A large bonus that pays out once, which makes it worth the most to whoever makes the largest opening attack and nearly nothing to whoever grinds a fight down. That is a Longarm at 12 base and +12 critical opening from concealment, not a Pistol firing three cheap shots. It is the clearest case in the whole system of a slot rewarding opposite weapons depending on what is fitted — the Ion and Incendiary lines in this same Cell slot want the weapon that fires most often, and this one wants the weapon that fires hardest.

1. 1/4 High-Energy Capacitor — no value published for this step[1]
2. 2/4 Hypercharge Capacitor — +5 damage on the first attack of each combat researched[2]
3. 3/4 Ultradense Capacitor — no value published for this step[1]
4. 4/4 Supernova Capacitor — no value published for this step[2]

• Whether the Hypercharge Capacitor's +5 or the line's +2-to-+6 span is wrong. They cannot both be right with the Hypercharge at step 2 of 4, and no source states either figure twice. This is the largest open conflict in the mod data.
• Whether the bonus covers the whole first turn or only the first attack. The two sources word it differently — "during the first turn of combat" against "on the first attack of each combat" — and on a Pistol firing three times that is a threefold difference.
• Whether "first turn of each combat" means the Operator's first turn or the battle's.
• How it interacts with a Repeater, whose damage is not a fixed figure.
• Where any step is obtained, and at what rarity. No source gives an acquisition route or a rarity for a line as a line.

This family settles a question the Hypercharge Capacitor record carried from the day it was written — which slot it occupies — and it is worth being precise about how, because the answer arrives by a route the record had explicitly refused. The record's first unknown said the slot was unpublished and that guessing Cell from the word "Capacitor" would be invention; a fan wiki filed it under Barrel and that was recorded as a lead. Power Up Gaming now publishes a Capacitor *line* in the Cell slot, with an effect that is the Hypercharge's effect, and the catalogue places the Hypercharge in that line as step 2. So the slot comes from a source assigning the family, not from reading the name — and it happens to contradict the wiki, which is the second time this file's tier-5 caution has paid. What it opens is worse than what it closed. If the Hypercharge is +5 and the line tops out at +6, the two steps above it have a single point of headroom between them. Recorded as the first unknown rather than resolved by picking the source I like better.

Inflicts stacks of Burning when this blaster hits.

What it is for: The line with the widest gap between what it says and what it is worth, because nobody has published what a stack of Burning does. Four stacks a hit on a weapon that fires three times a turn is twelve stacks from one Operator in one turn, which is either the strongest damage in the mod system or a rounding error depending on a number no source gives. What can be said is where it belongs: on the weapon that hits most often rather than hardest, which is the Pistol at 1 AP a shot — the same reasoning as the Ion line and the opposite of the Capacitor's.

1. 1/4 Incendiary Modulator — no value published for this step[3]
2. 2/4 Advanced Incendiary Modulator — no value published for this step[1]
3. 3/4 Inferno Modulator — no value published for this step[1]
4. 4/4 Wildfire Modulator — 4 stacks of Burning on hit researched[3]

• Burning's damage per stack and its stack cap, which is most of what this line is worth.
• Whether it burns friendly Operators standing in the same space, as Burning otherwise does.
• Whether the Flamethrower Utility's Burning stacks and these are the same status on the same cap.
• What each step is worth. Only the line's span is published, and three lines are demonstrably not evenly spaced, so a step with no value below has none — it has not been estimated.
• Where any step is obtained, and at what rarity. No source gives an acquisition route or a rarity for a line as a line.

This line closes the Wildfire Modulator's longest-standing unknown, and it does it in the way the record predicted rather than by a lucky match. That record noted that a third guide listed an "Incendiary Modulator" under CELL with the same effect minus the figure, called the resemblance suggestive, and declined to take the slot from it. The catalogue now puts both in one four-step line and Power Up Gaming names the Wildfire as the top of it — so the Incendiary Modulator is step 1 of the family whose step 4 is the Wildfire, and the slot transfers because the family is published, not because the effects rhymed. It also retires the reclassification argument for good. The Wildfire was moved out of `utilities` on 31 August on the strength of one guide's categorisation; it now sits at the top of a mod line whose lower three steps nothing has ever called a Utility.

Increases Blaster Damage against Droids and against Ray Shields. Those are two separate bonuses rather than one bonus with a condition — a droid without a shield still takes the smaller one.

What it is for: The line with published fitting advice attached, and the advice is the reasoning the Squad Builder needs. Fit it to a Blaster Pistol, because the Pistol costs 1 AP a shot and fires three times a turn, and a Droideka's ray shield regenerates 46 points a round and drops only while the unit moves — three applications of an anti-shield bonus beats one large hit. A squad expecting droids wants this and a Droid Popper; a squad expecting Outlaws wants neither, which makes this the most mission-dependent line in the system.

1. 1/4 Ion Modulator — +1 against Droids, +16 against Ray Shields (Basic) researched[3]
2. 2/4 Grade II Ion Modulator — +24 against Ray Shields (Superior); its Droid figure obscured[2]
3. 3/4 Superior Ion Modulator — no value published for this step[1]
4. 4/4 Pulsed Ion Modulator — no value published for this step[2]

• Which half of the effect the "+1 to +4" span describes. The Armory item card gives the first step as +1 against Droids and +16 against Ray Shields, and +16 is not inside +1 to +4 — so the span is either the Droid figure alone or wrong. It is not published which.
• Whether the shield bonus scales in the same proportion as the droid bonus. Step 1 to step 2 is +16 to +24 on the shield half, and the droid half of step 2 was obscured in the capture that gave the rest.
• Whether "Superior Ion Modulator" at step 3 is a distinct item from the "Superior" *rarity* the Armory prints on the Grade II at step 2. Two different things share a word here and no source distinguishes them.
• Whether it stacks with the Droid Popper's own anti-shield bonus.
• Where any step is obtained, and at what rarity. No source gives an acquisition route or a rarity for a line as a line.

This is the line where the catalogue's ladder and this database's own captures corroborate each other hardest, and disagree with the bylined span at the same time. The Ion Modulator and a Grade II Ion Modulator were photographed side by side in one Armory inventory on 30 August — two cards, two rarities, two values — which is what taught this database that a grade is a separate item rather than a rank of one. The catalogue independently lists exactly those two as the first two steps of a four-step line, and adds the two nobody had seen. That is a strong agreement about *shape*. Power Up Gaming's span is the part that does not fit, and it is left standing rather than dropped. A guide summarising sixteen lines in a table has every reason to print one number for a two-number effect; that is a likely explanation and it is not evidence, so the span is published with the conflict named beside it.

Provides a chance to Shock the targeted enemy when this blaster hits.

What it is for: The only line in the system that reaches certainty — its top step applies the status on every single hit, with no roll — and the hardest to price, because nothing published says what Shock is worth. What can be said is structural: a status applied for free on every hit belongs on the weapon that hits most often, and it is worth more to a squad that can exploit a disabled target than to one that cannot. Until Shock is published this is a line to note rather than plan around.

1. 1/4 Shock Modulator — no value published for this step[1]
2. 2/4 Voltage Modulator — no value published for this step[1]
3. 3/4 Hypervolt Modulator — no value published for this step[1]
4. 4/4 Lightning Modulator — 100% chance to Shock on a Hit researched[3]

• What Shock actually does. Nothing published says, and it is most of what this line is worth.
• Whether Shock is the Ion effect droids are described as weak to, or a separate status. Both lines sit in the Cell slot, which is suggestive and is not a source.
• Whether Shock can be resisted, and whether it has a duration or a stack count.
• What each step is worth. Only the line's span is published, and three lines are demonstrably not evenly spaced, so a step with no value below has none — it has not been estimated.
• Where any step is obtained, and at what rarity. No source gives an acquisition route or a rarity for a line as a line.

The neatest confirmation in this file. The Lightning Modulator was recorded on 31 August with "a 100% chance to Shock" and an unknown reading "which of the four slot categories it occupies". A line running 25% to 100% and topping out on that exact mod answers the slot and explains the figure at once: 100% is not an unusually generous mod, it is the ceiling of a ladder, and the three steps below it are the ordinary versions nobody had named.

Reduces Chance-To-Hit penalties from Range.

What it is for: A line about where an Operator is allowed to stand rather than about damage. EA describe Range as the band a weapon is optimal in and call what happens outside it a Strike Penalty, so this buys part of that back — worth most where the band is narrowest and the shots are dearest. On a Longarm it means a Sharpshooter can take the target the position was not chosen for; on a Pistol, whose band is Short and whose shots cost 1 AP, it turns a wasted turn into three ordinary ones. At the top step it removes the constraint rather than easing it, which is a different kind of mod from the three below it.

1. 1/4 Long Range Scope — no value published for this step[1]
2. 2/4 Advanced Range Scope — Reduces Range chance-to-hit penalties by 10% researched[2]
3. 3/4 Horizon Scope — Reduces the penalty by 15%; 1,750 Credits in an Operation researched[4]
4. 4/4 Limitless Scope — no value published for this step[2]

• Whether the reduction is a flat subtraction from the penalty or a proportional one, which differ by a lot at long range. Open on both steps that carry a figure.
• Whether the top step removes the Range penalty only, or every chance-to-hit penalty. Two walkthroughs word the Horizon Scope as reducing "the Chance-To-Hit penalty on ranged attacks", which would be much broader, and Hack the Minotaur words the same mod as "from Range". The narrower reading is the one this database publishes.
• What step 1 is worth, and whether Hack the Minotaur's "Range Scope" is this step under a shortened name.
• Where any step is obtained, and at what rarity. No source gives an acquisition route or a rarity for a line as a line.

This line resolves the tidiest open question in the mod data. Three mods — Advanced Range Scope, Horizon Scope and an unrecorded "Range Scope" — shared one effect string, no stem word and no published rarity, and both records said in so many words that three names with one effect is a finding to state rather than a hierarchy to infer. The catalogue supplies the hierarchy: Long Range Scope, Advanced Range Scope, Horizon Scope, Limitless Scope. The two figures this database already held fall into place with it. 10% at step 2, 15% at step 3, and a step 4 whose name means the penalty is gone. Nothing was adjusted to make that fit — both figures were recorded before this line was known. `variantOf` is still not set on either record. The field is for a graded item whose base is recorded under the same stem word, and "Horizon" is not "Range"; the ladder lives here, where it can carry its own evidence per step.

Increases Critical Chance when attacking with this blaster.

What it is for: Read against the base it multiplies, this is the most valuable line in the system. Every weapon in the game has a Critical Chance of 5%, so even the first step more than doubles it and the top step quadruples it — larger than Keen Eye's +6%, and available to any class rather than one. It also fixes the buying order for the whole mod system: critical *chance* comes from this line, critical *damage* comes from the Barrel slot's Condenser line, and the Condenser is worth close to nothing until this has been bought. Fit the Scope first.

1. 1/4 Precision Scope — no value published for this step[1]
2. 2/4 Sniper's Scope — +9% Critical Chance[2]
3. 3/4 Assassin's Scope — +12% Critical Chance researched[4]
4. 4/4 Executioner's Scope — no value published for this step[2]

• Whether the ladder really is +6/+9/+12/+15. Two of the four are published and the span's ends match an even step of three, which is the strongest case any line here makes for interpolation — and the Condenser line is why it is still written as an unknown rather than as four values.
• Whether it stacks additively with Keen Eye and Zero In, which decides whether a Sharpshooter or a Gunslinger wants it more.
• Whether the Armory's printed Critical Chance figure is the weapon's or the Operator's, which decides whether a fitted Scope shows up in it.
• Where any step is obtained, and at what rarity. No source gives an acquisition route or a rarity for a line as a line.

The Assassin's Scope record carried an unknown asking whether the Sniper's Scope at +9% was "the grade below it or a separate mod — nothing published says which". It was the grade below it. Both are steps of one line, at 2 and 3, with the span's ends at +6% and +15%. This is the only family where an even ladder is a fair reading, and it is written as an unknown anyway. Two published values three points apart, in a span whose ends are also three points from them, is as good as this evidence gets — and the Condenser line, which looked equally tidy until its middles turned out to be +3 and +4 inside a +2-to-+6 span, is the reason four numbers are not printed here as fact.

Reduces the Chance-To-Hit penalty provided by an enemy's Cover.

What it is for: The line that answers the thing every tactics player complains about, and its value moves in the opposite direction from every other mod here: it is worth the most against a dug-in enemy and nothing at all against one in the open. Cover is the single largest reason a shot misses in this game, so on a squad with no other answer to it this is the difference between a turn and a wasted turn. It competes for its slot with Critical Chance, which is the more interesting choice than it looks — one line makes shots land and the other makes landed shots hurt, and the Longarm firing once a turn cares about the first far more than the Pistol firing three times does.

1. 1/4 Targeting Scope — no value published for this step[2]
2. 2/4 Enhanced Targeting Scope — no value published for this step[1]
3. 3/4 Elite Targeting Scope — Reduces the enemy Cover penalty by 20%[2]
4. 4/4 Auto-Scope — no value published for this step[2]

• Whether the 20% at step 3 is a flat subtraction from the Cover penalty or a proportional one, and how it interacts with the difference between half and full cover.
• Whether the top step negating Cover's hit penalty also negates any damage reduction Cover provides, or only the chance to hit.
• How it interacts with the Assault's and Scoundrel's own anti-cover abilities, which may describe the same subtraction.
• What each step is worth. Only the line's span is published, and three lines are demonstrably not evenly spaced, so a step with no value below has none — it has not been estimated.
• Where any step is obtained, and at what rarity. No source gives an acquisition route or a rarity for a line as a line.

The only line in this file with no `WeaponMod` record behind any of its steps, and it is entered anyway because it is better evidenced than several that do. Hack the Minotaur names step 1 under SCOPE with the effect; the catalogue supplies the ladder and a figure at step 3; a published build fits that step 3 to a Longarm; Power Up Gaming names the top. Four steps, three sources, one number. A record for the Elite Targeting Scope was considered and refused for now. It would say what this ladder step already says, and this file's rule is that a `WeaponMod` record exists where there is enough published about one step to argue about it — a single figure with no rarity, no acquisition route and no second wording is a catalogue entry.

Increases this Operator's Assist Damage.

What it is for: Worth nothing on an Operator who fights alone and a great deal in a squad built around assists, which makes it the only line whose value is decided by the other three bays. Easy Mark makes a Scoundrel assist every ally attacking a marked target and Never Play Fair adds to each of those; Hawks' Fearless Leader raises assist damage for everybody. This is a third source of the same number and the only one that can be fitted to a weapon. The top step at +8 is the largest single figure published anywhere in the mod system — and on a squad that does not assist, it is +8 that never triggers.

1. 1/4 Tracking Scope — no value published for this step[2]
2. 2/4 Advanced Tracking Scope — +2 Assist Damage researched[2]
3. 3/4 Hunter's Tracking Scope — no value published for this step[1]
4. 4/4 Stalker Scope — no value published for this step[2]

• What steps 3 and 4 are worth. A span of +1 to +8 with +2 at step 2 cannot be evenly spaced, and whether it doubles or jumps at the end is not published.
• Whether Assist Damage from a mod stacks with the Talent and ability sources of it.
• Whether an assist has to be triggered by a marked target, or fires on any ally's attack.
• Where any step is obtained, and at what rarity. No source gives an acquisition route or a rarity for a line as a line.

The Advanced Tracking Scope's record noted that a "Tracking Scope" with the same effect was listed under SCOPE by another guide, and declined to take the slot from it because "whether the 'Advanced' marks a grade above it or a different mod is unstated". It marks a grade above it: steps 1 and 2 of this line. The span is the interesting part. +2 at step 2 against a ceiling of +8 means the line rises faster at the top than at the bottom — the opposite shape from the Condenser — so the two lines together are why no step in this file is filled in by arithmetic.

Increases Defense after attacking with this blaster. The bonus expires at the end of the turn and is capped in how far it stacks.

What it is for: The smallest span in the system and one of the two lines that make an Operator harder to kill, which is a rarer thing here than the numbers suggest. Defense is flat damage reduction subtracted from every hit taken, so +2 against enemies dealing 6 is a third of the incoming damage — but only until the end of the turn, and only after attacking. That shape suits the Operator who is standing in the open having just fired: a Heavy who taunts and shoots, or Cly with +3 already from her armour. It does nothing for the Sharpshooter on the roof, who was not going to be shot anyway.

1. 1/4 Balancing Stabilizer — no value published for this step[2]
2. 2/4 Advanced Balancing Stabilizer — no value published for this step[1]
3. 3/4 Auto-calibrating Balancer — no value published for this step[1]
4. 4/4 Experimental Model-8 Balancer — no value published for this step[2]

• How far the bonus stacks within a turn. The source says the stacking is limited and does not say to what, so a Pistol firing three times may be at +2 or at +6.
• Whether a span of +1 to +2 over four steps means two pairs of steps share a value, or whether the span describes the per-attack increment rather than the total.
• Whether it stacks with cover and with the Heavy's Heavy Armor Training.
• Where any step is obtained, and at what rarity. No source gives an acquisition route or a rarity for a line as a line.

The one line whose span is narrower than its step count, which is why the second unknown exists. Four steps across +1 to +2 either repeats values or means something other than a total, and no source resolves it. It is recorded as published rather than reinterpreted into something that would divide neatly.

Increases Blaster Damage if this Operator has not moved during the turn.

What it is for: The only mod line that changes how an Operator is played rather than what they carry, and it is the sharpest fit in the whole system: it is a Sharpshooter's mod, on a Longarm, on the high ground they climbed to last turn. Standing still is already what that Operator does — Overwatch, Zero In and the whole Sharpshooter kit reward it — so this is a free +4 for a squad built one way and a permanent tax on one built any other. Do not fit it to Cly or to a Scout; their Talents exist to keep them moving.

1. 1/4 Bracing Stabilizer — no value published for this step[1]
2. 2/4 Advanced Bracing Stabilizer — no value published for this step[1]
3. 3/4 D-X9 Bracing Stabilizer — no value published for this step[1]
4. 4/4 D-X22R Elite Brace — no value published for this step[2]

• Whether a free vertical transition — Cly's jetpack, Trick's climb — counts as moving.
• Whether the bonus applies to an Overwatch shot taken on the enemy's turn, which is the case that would matter most.
• Whether it is lost by a repositioning ability that does not spend movement, such as Combat Jump.
• What each step is worth. Only the line's span is published, and three lines are demonstrably not evenly spaced, so a step with no value below has none — it has not been estimated.
• Where any step is obtained, and at what rarity. No source gives an acquisition route or a rarity for a line as a line.

One of two lines with no other source than the pair this file rests on, and the only one whose steps are entirely unrecorded elsewhere — no guide, no capture and no build names any of the four. It is entered because the line itself is bylined and because the effect is specific enough to be wrong; the four names are the catalogue's alone and the step evidence says so.

Increases Blaster Damage after attacking with this blaster, stacking during the turn up to a maximum and expiring at the end of it.

What it is for: The mirror image of the Bracing line, and the one the Pistol wants. A bonus that accrues per attack and resets each turn is worth exactly as many times as the weapon fires: three shots at 1 AP means the second and third are hitting harder, while a Longarm firing once collects nothing at all. It is the same argument the Gunslinger's Onslaught makes — each attack in a turn grants +1 Blaster Damage — which raises the one question that decides how good this is, and nobody has answered it: whether the two stack.

1. 1/4 Ergonomic Stabilizer — no value published for this step[1]
2. 2/4 Custom Ergonomic — +2 Blaster Damage after attacking, expiring at end of turn[4]
3. 3/4 Type-K Ergonomic Stabilizer — no value published for this step researched[2]
4. 4/4 IQ Ergonomic — no value published for this step[2]

• What the stacking maximum is. The catalogue says the bonus "has a maximum" without giving one, and whether the line's +1-to-+3 span is the per-attack increment or the per-turn ceiling changes what this line is worth by a factor of three.
• Whether it stacks with the Gunslinger's Onslaught, which describes the same accrual from a Specialization.
• Whether the Type-K Ergonomic here and the Type-K Ergonomic Stabilizer named by a launch-week guide are one item under two names. The catalogue drops the trailing word; this database keeps the record's original name, and neither source pairs them.
• Where any step is obtained, and at what rarity. No source gives an acquisition route or a rarity for a line as a line.

Step 2 is the best-attested individual mod in this file after the Ion Modulator — named by Hack the Minotaur in English, by Dr33dTV in German ("personalisierte Ergonomie"), fitted to a published Cly build, and given a figure by the catalogue — and it is also where a piece of circulating misinformation gets corrected. A research digest reaching this site described the Custom Ergonomic as "+1 Blaster Damage after each attack, stacking to +3 for the turn". Neither number survives its sources. The catalogue's item text reads +2 after attacking with a maximum it does not state, and the guide that fits it says only that it "adds another point of Blaster Damage" with no figure at all. The +1-and-+3 pairing appears to be the line's span read as if it were one item's numbers, which is precisely the mistake `ModLadderStep.value` exists to prevent. What is published is +2 at step 2 and a span of +1 to +3 across the line, and the third unknown is that those two facts do not obviously fit together. Step 3 keeps the slug `type-k-ergonomic-stabilizer`, because a slug is a permanent link and a shortened name is not evidence that the item was renamed.

Provides a chance to gain Evasion when firing this blaster, if this Operator does not already have this effect.

What it is for: The most unusual line in the system and the best evidenced. Evasion makes the next incoming attack miss outright, so at the top step a third of all shots buy a free miss — and it pays out for doing the thing the Operator was going to do anyway. The trailing clause is what decides where it goes: because it cannot be gained while it is already active, it cannot be banked, so it is worth most to whoever fires most often and re-rolls it the moment it is spent. That is the Pistol at 1 AP a shot, and it is the strongest argument this database has for putting a Blaster Pistol on a front-line Operator.

1. 1/4 Lightweight Stabilizer — 15% chance to gain Evasion when firing[1]
2. 2/4 Superlight Stabilizer — no value published for this step[3]
3. 3/4 Ultralight Stabilizer — no value published for this step[1]
4. 4/4 Weightless Stabilizer — 33% chance to gain Evasion when firing researched[3]

• Whether the roll happens per shot or per turn. On a three-shot Pistol turn that is the difference between one chance and three, and the same question is open on the Cycler line.
• How long Evasion lasts if it is not spent — whether it survives to the enemy's next turn or expires with this one.
• What steps 2 and 3 are worth. 15 and 33 are the published ends and nothing gives the middle.
• Where any step is obtained, and at what rarity. No source gives an acquisition route or a rarity for a line as a line.

The line that made the community catalogue citable, and it is worth recording why rather than only that. This database held the Weightless Stabilizer at 33% from Mobalytics since 31 August, with an unknown asking which slot it occupied. The catalogue independently gives a Lightweight Stabilizer at 15% whose effect text carries the identical trailing clause — "if this Operator does not already have this effect" — and puts the two at opposite ends of one four-step line. Power Up Gaming, who has never seen either item card, publishes that line's span as 15% to 33%. Three sources, none derived from the others, agreeing on two numbers and a clause. That is what Appendix B.1 means by verification, and it is the specific evidence behind admitting an unbylined catalogue at tier 4 instead of dismissing it at tier 5.