Overheating prevents it from having as long as a continuous fire as the AR but leaves dps unchanged unless your comparing the dps of the entire clip of both weapons in which the scrambler would have significantly less but we both know neither weapon requires an entire clip to kill really only till your reach about 1800hp worth of damage (maxed out heavy) really all dps in its truest form determines who will kill first.

Pro cal assualt 700 hp Imperial will kill in 7 shots leaves 8 to be missed
Pro cal assualt 700 hp duvolle takes 14 shots about

who will win most likely the imperial guy simply becasue he has a built in advantage of at least 50% and up to almpst 100%
and since they have almost the same range their is nowhere for the AR to win he cant outrange or dps


hmg beats ar in close but ar can outrange, ar can beat laser but laser can outrange, laser beats sniper but sniper can outrange notice a pattern scrambler takes a sh*t on this ar has no mechanical advantage like the others hell technically the scrambler beats everything it shares a range or has more than. it beats hmg, ar, and shotgun (assuming you can survive initial shotgun shot which most pro suits can)

1. I actually looked at the stats of the enemies being killed. Most of the enemies were wearing militia and standard suits, with militia and standard guns.
2. Arkena was using a Gallente Logistics with 900 HP. 900 HP > 400 HP.
3. Arkena had a scanner. Knowing where everyone is > not knowing anything.
4. Arkena got several kills in a row with cooked Core Locus Grenades while camping a hive. I'd say that infinite OHKO grenades with a 15m diameter blast is more OP than Scrambler Rifles.
5. Arkena has Wiyrkomi Nanohives that heal 70 HP/S, plus 5 HP/S innate armor repair.

Arkena would've died multiple times without such a pronounced gear advantage. A couple of times the militia opponents dropped 500+ HP. To add further insult to injury, here come the Wiyrkomi Triage Nanohives. Let's say we swapped the Imperial for a Duvolle. What would happen? Maybe they'd get a few less kills against enemies out of range. Would going 40/0 against militia noobs really be any better? If you have scan intel, twice as much health, 75 HP/S regen, infinite ammo and damage mods with a proto weapon and Gallente suit, it's pretty hard to die.

Even with a standard Heavy suit with 2 Armor Repair modules and a GLU Tac AR, which is essentially a poor man's version with slightly longer range and no hives, I can post up 30+ kills and <3 deaths against a team of mostly standard and militia. During Black Eagle week, I went something like 40 to 2 strafing back and forth on a mushroom roof in Domination mowing down enemies going to capture a terminal because I had 1200 HP with 7 HP/S repair. I died twice, but only to damage mod snipers. It took 0 effort and had I used a proto sentinel with complex repairers, plates, mods, I probably could've went 49/0, too.

Now, the Scrambler Rifle is more OP than the AR in the right hands. I'd suggest a RoF nerf down to 500 to bring the DPS down to a little over 900 when the Duvolle hits 640. There's still an advantage in damage and range plus charge shots, but it makes it a little harder to just run at people and spasm the trigger.

EDIT: Also, most players cannot hit the RoF cap. I've seen a few that break the 400-500 range, and obviously turbo controllers can hit the cap, so a nerf would bring down the raw potential. Maybe a small hipfire spread increase would help, too.