Hobo on Fire
Goonfeet
Special Planetary Emergency Response Group
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Posted - 2014.01.08 19:01:00 -
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Caldari Assault/Rail Rifle user here. As others have mentioned, increasing the zoom doesn't really help us. I actually kind of like your idea of reducing charge up time, as it would make the Rail rifle much more viable in close quarters, but it would need to be significant enough to make a difference.
I think the RR's kick and recoil are pretty minimized once the weapon has been fully skilled into, so overlapping with the weapon's skills isn't really needed. Proficiency also makes it hit like a freight train even without damage mods, so a damage increase isn't needed either.
Personally, I would like an increased magazine size over anything else; even with the slower rate of fire, I feel like I spend more time reloading than I did with an Assault rifle. Combining this with an increased RoF (by way of a shorter charge time) would help Caldari assaults with Caldari weapons actually assault instead of just trading shots at range. |
Hobo on Fire
Goonfeet
Special Planetary Emergency Response Group
100
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Posted - 2014.01.10 17:55:00 -
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Ripley Riley wrote:
...The zoom bonus is pretty nice. At V that would be a 10% increase in zoom, so that would take a x3 zoom to x3.3. Not sure most players would notice that. 4% more zoom might be more appropriate, but we'll start with 2% and see how it goes.
This statement contradicts itself. I agree that most players probably wouldn't even notice 10% increase in zoom, and even if they did, why would they want it?
Sniper rifles are poor weapons inside of 100m because of the zoom on their scopes; your vision is so narrowed when aiming through the scope you can't maintain view of a target strafing off of your line of sight. You can't use the scope if you want to keep track of your target, and if you are close enough to get hits with a sniper rifle without using the scope, your close enough for a sidearm weapon to be a better choice.
Drastically increasing the zoom of the rail rifle would make it even less usable in close quarters then it already is; slightly increasing the zoom is won't have any benefit to the user, if they even notice the difference.
A zoom bonus for rail weapons would at best be worthless and at worst be an actual detriment to the user.
As for the spool up time, a racial bonus to help counter a specific handicap makes perfect sense. As of right now, Amarr assaults have a bonus to keep scrambler and rail rifles from overheating. The weapons have a very specific weakness and the suits help mitigate that fact. Caldari suits reducing the spool time for Caldari weapons follows the same logic. |