I have a question. I play a fixer and i use SMG (duh!). Normally i was getting my guns through the missions. I found one that i liked (Kerans Automatic Grinner) and i just keep getting higher QL of it. Yesterday i found one as a loot on a dead body (SW mines, mobs lvl 40). The gun i had been using was QL 35 and i found QL 44. Cool! - i thought... Immediately got it on (didnt need super buffs) and... it did as much as 3 times less damage that his QL 35 little brother. My first reaction - wtf? I had no penalty, nothing and yet i was doing roughly 3 time less damage. I switched guns several times and got the same result: QL 35 that i got as a mission reward was more powerful that QL 44 from dead body. 3 times!!! QL 35 did around 200 max burst and QL 44 - only 68 (several times)
The question is: is QL really means anything for a weapon or...?