You may hear some players talk about their "AS2k" number, or after the 1.4.0 update, their "BG2k" number, and after the most recent queen update, maybe "C2k". This is an unofficial unit of measurement that the player community has come up with to determine how powerful they are in relation to each other by using the DPS of the final queen as a gauge.

• AS2k means "Ancestral Sun at 2000"
• It is simply the displayed DPS of the queen Ancestral Sun at exactly level 2000 right after purchasing the final Queen Skill (The Chosen).
• As of 1.4.0, Ancestral Sun is no longer the highest queen - became Blood Guardian. The concept is the same, however, just using Blood Guardian for the data instead of Ancestral Sun. Exactly level 2000 after purchasing her final skill ("Protector").
• And as of 3.79, Blood Guardian was dethroned by three new "final" queens of equal power. Panzer, Tarantula, and Colossus. Again the concept is the same, measuring Colossus at level 2000.

Why the final queen?

Damage numbers are impacted by queen skills. If we were to use a lower queen, the number showing in your game would most likely not match because you've unlocked and levelled who knows how many queens after it whose skills would change what you see there vs what we would calculate here.

To compare apples to apples, we use the final queen at 2k, when all skills have been purchased and that ambiguity has been eliminated.

NOTE: A Royal Pain

Version 3.80 changed the Gene Tree in a lot of good ways but it also broke a few things too, one of which is how different things change the display of your Queen damage in game that can throw a bit of a wrench if you are trying to compare it to what we calculate here. Previously, it was simple - if you had the gene Royal Wings implanted, and you have the ability Queen Frenzy running at the time, your displayed Queen DPS number would be doubled. To have an accurate AS2k / BG2k in this case, you would divide the number in half, or wait for Queen Frenzy to run out.

But with 3.80 things broke. Royal Wings level 1, rather than increasing your queen damage x2, it increases it 1.02x - yes, only by 2%. Level 2 Royal Wings (x4 dmg as written) = 1.04x or only 4% gained. We've reported this bug but have no near-term hopes that it will be fixed.

The other new thing 3.80 brought is a new gene called Symbiotic Link which adds to your Queen DPS to Crab Dmg %. These genes also increase the displayed damage of your queen by an equal amount.

Lastly, if the current Jade Beetle Rune Board has "Tournament Mastery", adding 30-60% damage while in a tournament, your queen displayed damage will also increase by that same factor.