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Sirys Lyons
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.01.03 04:57:00 -
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Is anyone having a positive AV experience (or any kind of positive experience, for that matter) with the Plasma Cannon? If so, please share your thoughts.
So far, the only thing I've managed to actually hit with it was an uplink. |
Ludvig Enraga
KILL-EM-QUICK
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2014.01.03 05:13:00 -
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Plasma is a very poor choice of AV. It's ok at helping to strip a couple K hp off a tank, it will not solo a tank ever. It's too slow for moving LAVs but you can get extra WP by blowing up parked LAV fast.
PLC is an anti-infantry weapon. Don't expect it to rake up kills like an easy mode automatic rifle but it will do ok in certain settings. It's not the ultra trash weapon ppl make it out to be but it's skill intensive and not that effective. If you have specific questions about PLC i'll be happy to share my experience.
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zDemoncake
Horizons' Edge
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Posted - 2014.01.03 05:15:00 -
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I've had pretty good experiences with it. I prefer more than a standard swarm launcher.
It really shines against the shield based vehicles, but you will not be able to solo a tank that often. If you do, the tanker deserved to die.
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el OPERATOR
Mannar Focused Warfare
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.01.03 05:19:00 -
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Yes. Its better on the shields than the armor, you'll probably want to do SPs into reload speed and getting the arc/shot travel time will take a bit of getting used to. But, I personally have yet to see an aggressive tanker back up faster than when he gets hit by a PLC and his shields or a healthy chunk of his armor disappears, especially if he's under other fire.
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el OPERATOR
Mannar Focused Warfare
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.01.03 05:23:00 -
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And it will squash an LAV, the trick is baiting them into murdertaxi mode and have your aim/timing DOWN. Wild Wild West, baybee!
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Quil Evrything
Triple Terrors
640
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Posted - 2014.01.03 05:43:00 -
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Ludvig Enraga wrote:l
PLC is an anti-infantry weapon. Don't expect it to rake up kills like an easy mode automatic rifle but it will do ok in certain settings.
Indeed.
It is, in fact, the only weapon that can one-shot a heavy now.
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zDemoncake
Horizons' Edge
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Posted - 2014.01.03 05:49:00 -
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Quil Evrything wrote:Ludvig Enraga wrote:l
PLC is an anti-infantry weapon. Don't expect it to rake up kills like an easy mode automatic rifle but it will do ok in certain settings. Indeed. It is, in fact, the only weapon that can one-shot a heavy now.
What about FG's? PLCs at standard due 1050 damage. A standard heavy suit, maybe. I think a tanked out heavy can survive 1 direct shot. I think my Basic Ak.0 can survive one. I'll go get shot later on.
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Lynn Beck
Granite Mercenary Division
Top Men.
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Posted - 2014.01.03 05:58:00 -
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I've had a few good kills, thouhh not many.
It is good at catching tanks off-guard, seeing as it's silent.
Dropships though... I've killed around 3-5 derpies because they're used to being invincible to all but proto forge.
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The Robot Devil
Molon Labe.
Public Disorder.
1354
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Posted - 2014.01.03 06:14:00 -
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If you have good skills and are good at using the arc it is good at AV. I use it all the time, I use a Amarr advance logi with two advanced prox, advanced PLC and either flux or AV nades. It is a bait game with the PLC because you either have to guerrilla style jump them or lure them into your kill box. If you have different tiers of prox mines on your suit then you can deploy up to nine at the advance tier when you include a set of standard and a restock while carring three on a logi and could be more at proto levels
I try to find a choke point that is a common path and set out my mines in small clusters or I will mine a road by deploying mines as fast as it will let me in the middle of the road. The mined road is better for LAVs and the the small clusters are better for HAV. Find your choke point and deploy your mines, now move down the path the opposite way you want the HAV to travel. Stay in that area with your PLC ready and let the HAV pass you a little bit. Dash out from behind cover and shoot the HAV with the PLC. The HAV will either stop and fire or run towards the prox mines
If the HAV runs then chase after it with the PLC because it does good damage if you can aim well and throw all your AV or flux as soon as you fire and hit with the first PLC round (and are close enough to hit with nades) because of the reload time. Until you practice some you will die often so start out with standard gear and work your way up depending on your skill at doing it. Now that your nades are out you can only hide and reload the PLC or reload while dodging large blaster fire.The mines should finish the HAV off when it runs
If the HAV decides to stop and fight then use all your nades and the PLC in the same fashion as above except that now you are going to jump in and out of cover using the cover time to reload and the fight time to shoot the PLC while trying to lure them towards the prox by acting like you are running from the fight. Don't run from the fight. You're going to die in that suit in short order so fight the vehicle. It works but it takes practice, patience and some ISK. The mines should finish the HAV off when it runs. If you carry flux with you then you will do better against a shield tanked HAV and AV for armor.
If you die the prox stay on field and the mines will get you points. Some pilots use a scanner and can see the mines, This is good sometimes because it give you time to hit them with the PLC and the high alpha scares them into run mode while your reload, after the second shot you need to rush with the nades because of reload time.
Sorry for the long post and I hope it helps. I pop at least one vehicle per match on average so it does work. However if the pilot is good then you don't sand a chance and if they have support you are screwed unless in a tight squad. Good luck and have fun. Don't get discouraged and experiment with it.
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Atiim
Living Like Larry Schwag
2980
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Posted - 2014.01.03 06:19:00 -
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I've been having mixed success with it.
In some matches, I've killed 2-4 tanks with it.
And in other matches, I get slaughter by simply trying.
As for using it against Infantry, I have that down pretty well. It's ADS is kinda like a Hybrid between a Railgun and a Breach MD.
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m twiggz
Pradox One
Proficiency V.
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Posted - 2014.01.03 06:20:00 -
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Sirys Lyons wrote:Is anyone having a positive AV experience (or any kind of positive experience, for that matter) with the Plasma Cannon? If so, please share your thoughts.
So far, the only thing I've managed to actually hit with it was an uplink.
I've been running the Plasma Cannon very often in matches this past week, due to boredom. Its not a terrible weapon but its also not up to par with what I believe it should be. Definitely needs some kind of rework to be a force in the AV field.
Honestly its just a fun weapon to play with. Its more fun to try to use it on infantry just for kicks and giggles. Good luck though, 1 shot clip and then a decently long reload time leads to many many deaths. |
Quil Evrything
Triple Terrors
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Posted - 2014.01.03 06:56:00 -
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zDemoncake wrote:Quil Evrything wrote:
Indeed.
It is, in fact, the only weapon that can one-shot a heavy now.
What about FG's? PLCs at standard due 1050 damage. A standard heavy suit, maybe
oh yea, sorry, forgot about that stuff.
Amended to read,
"only weapon that a NORMAL person can use, that used to be able to one-shot a heavy".
sigh.
but post-heavy-buff, thats rather more difficult unless you have extreme damage mods. boo.
Buff the PLC!
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