Gotta love the "BUFF MY GUN OR I QUIT" posts

Actually they do crazy DPS in their range. So they need no buff. Sorry, bye! :)

It's a nitch weapon. It does crazy DPS in its optimal range. If you don't like it use the scrambler rifle, or sniper rifle. It's not meant to kill at all ranges. Are you leaving or not?

effective range damage =30% damage in CCP terms

The laser is fine. People kill me faster than a duvolle in the right hands. Perhaps it needs tweaking, but perhaps more variety between the tiers.

The laser is fine. People kill me faster than a duvolle in the right hands. Perhaps it needs tweaking, but perhaps more variety between the tiers.

Why??

In 1.7 ARs and ASCR are getting a range buff makeing the laser pointless to use.

I.e. in 1.7 with a laser be it basic, advanced or proto the range is hard capped at 84m and versus the ARs or ASCR at 90m the situation is the laser is doing 1% damage versus the much higher damage of an AR or ASCR and by the time the laser user manages to close the gap to be doing damage at 84m the problem is that by then the laser user is dead.

Its pointless to use any laser but the basic laser since all laser weapons have the same range.


Just tired of it being AR514.

Just playing Dust 514 until Black Friday then its on to other PS3 games and PS4 games so Dust 514 is getting benched to hardly any playtime.

And if no changes to lasers in 1.7??

Then I will just hit delete on this game and move on.

Good attitude and with folks like you in AR514 we went from 9226 online player counts to BELOW 5000 during a TRIPLE SP event....lol!!


Do we have 1.7 yet??

Just waiting for Black Friday.

Well the standard laser is pretty good, right now imho the laser has three problems:

1) speccing into operation is not benefitting enough the cooldown reduction is not really worth the SP to be honest I just spent the SP to get acces to the proficiency skill.

2) scaling across the tiers is not very good using anything else than the std laser is a waste of ISK imho.

3) people that don't exactly know the optimals for the laser and constantly using them like ARs

With 1.7 there could be another issue: the Rail Rifle will be more effective in the lasers optimal range. I guess the RR will render the laser nearly useless it has better range and comparable damage output without the drawbacks of having only a small optimals niche or overheating. (At least as far as I know ^^).

I've seen so few lasers and even those have failed to kill me except on very few rare occasions, atleast I have the luxury of turning and fire back on a laser unlike duvolle/gek/ar :D

Why??

In 1.7 ARs and ASCR are getting a range buff makeing the laser pointless to use.

I.e. in 1.7 with a laser be it basic, advanced or proto the range is hard capped at 84m and versus the ARs or ASCR at 90m the situation is the laser is doing 1% damage versus the much higher damage of an AR or ASCR and by the time the laser user manages to close the gap to be doing damage at 84m the problem is that by then the laser user is dead.

Its pointless to use any laser but the basic laser since all laser weapons have the same range.


Just tired of it being AR514.

Just playing Dust 514 until Black Friday then its on to other PS3 games and PS4 games so Dust 514 is getting benched to hardly any playtime.

And if no changes to lasers in 1.7??

Then I will just hit delete on this game and move on.

your an idiot with the AR the further the target is the more dispersion it will have there for will need more bullets to hit the laser guy if the laser got in range it will eat the AR before the AR can take its shields down

the laser shoots in a strait line there is no dispersion that i know of

either quit ya Biatching and play or quit there will be 1 less noob who thinks there gun should be better then everyone elses on the game

Have you used it with Amarr Assualt?

Buff the damage a little bit (from 17 to about 19 or 20), extend the range from 65-85 to about 55-90, with damage dropoff not hitting really hard until about 110m.

Imo my biggest issues with the laser are the rate of ammo consumption, the damage formula being based off the number of consecutive shots fired (17 + [0.6 * shots fired consecutively]) instead of damage buildup being based on heat management, and the relatively small window of 'holy crap this weapon is amazing' effectiveness compared to weapons like the assault rifle.

Nope not yet I use the laser either with a gal medium suit or a heavy as I have not yet specced into Amar Assaultsuits