Melchiah ARANeAE
The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar
DARKSTAR ARMY
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Posted - 2014.02.15 02:10:00 -
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To people that say the variants shouldn't be as good as the other rifles are, frankly, complete idiots. If the variants are no good, why bother using them?
The choice of what rifle to use should be decided by what your chosen race/suit is. The racial assault and commando suits will give bonuses to their racial weapon types and the variants add to the list of weapons affected by these bonuses. If I run a Gal assault with it's bonus to Plasma weapons, would I want to use to have to use the ScR if I wanted a semi-auto rifle? Or a CR for burst?
Also, the variants will benefit from the SP I've sunk into the various support skills for the AR. Would I want to use any other weapons If I'd sunk 1 million SP into ARs
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Melchiah ARANeAE
The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar
DARKSTAR ARMY
501
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Posted - 2014.02.15 02:46:00 -
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Oxskull Duncarino wrote:Firstly, 1 mil isn't that much. Secondly, if you make variants just as good as the original weapon they copied, where's the incentive to use different racial weapons. Each race has a strength to their main weapon design that other races can try but not fully succed in emulating. It pushes diversity in choice.
Although, if CCP did what you think should be done, I wouldn't mind playing with a tac AR that had a charged shot :D
I think you're kind of missing the point. What I'm saying is that you should use your races weapons as the suit is designed to work well with that weapon and should make that weapon (and it's variants) better than another races weapon on that same suit. If you use a Gal assault, you 'should' use the AR. If you run Cal assault, you 'should' run RR etc. (and by should, I mean from a min/maxing point of view. Feel free to use another races weapon if you're happy with it not being as efficient.)
EVE is set up so the ships get good bonuses to their racial turrets and such have an incentive to stick with that turret type. This is how it should be in Dust.
And I don't really see the variants as copies as the other rifles. They're just variants of the basic type (clue's in the name really). Much like there are variants of turrets in EVE.
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