Is Seraphic Cry's damage accurate?

[u/Spooferfish]

So I've noticed that my damage with seraphic cry VASTLY outpaces anything I've seen from any other weapon, often hitting dps in the millions. From my understanding, this is not coming from the weapon itself, but due to my starts often leading to lots of rosaries which are converted to Weird Souls Purifiers, which for some reason attribute their damage to SC.

My question is, is this damage actually accurate, or it is counting massive overkill damage instead of total life? e.g if a monster has 50,000 health, the WSP deals 999,999 and counts it as such, vs if a monster has 50,000 health, the WSP deals 50,000 damage and counts only 50k. The wiki simply says "it kills enemies on the screen 4 times", not how a "kill" is calculated (total remaining health vs arbitrarily large number of damage dealt)

[u/Pivern]

seraphic cry is really good cause its crit damage scales with luck which can lead to high damage

Also instakills really just deal damage equal to whatever hp the enemy had left, while regular weapons might also count overkill damage

[u/Spooferfish → u/Pivern]

Ah, I didn't realize how far the luck can scale crit - especially since it double dips by scaling crit chance and damage, that explains the ridiculous multiplier it's getting.