User blog comment:James 2000/CD/@comment-1140008-20120204002846/@comment-4993782-20120205153124

Maxing the right skills can add 70 percent of your regular damage to it. I have max shoot, max barrage, max rapid reload (and I have a boost with gunner's ram on rapid reload), and max round shot (good for broadsides on a ship or even CD I'm pretty sure).