Lol sinboto, I respected you up until about one sentence ago I think you need to try out the ASR and see that its pretty bad, especially right now!

Lol sinboto, I respected you up until about one sentence ago I think you need to try out the ASR and see that its pretty bad, especially right now!

Can confirm that CCP said the heat build up will decrease as you go up tiers. It's killing me that I have the Templar LR just sitting there gathering dust while I wait for them to fix it!! I want it NAOW CCP!

LR is not useless, certainly, but it's infuriating getting taken down by RR scrubs in heavy suits in it's optimal. How a fully automatic weapon with the range of the LR, DPS and ease of use of the AR, no bullet trails, and a better scope than the old TAR made sense to anyone is difficult to comprehend.

Without the benefit of the Amarr assault bonus on my logi suits the LR just isn't viable. So I went back to the ScR and CR (similar mechanic but way less fitting cost).

For now....

(shhhhhhh, let everyone think the RR is more powerful)

But seriously, everyone says the SR is OP but hardly anyone uses them, at least not in comparison to the RR. If it were truly OP I would imagine more people would be using it.

Dafuq?

I'm shredding everything in sight with the CRD-9. Have you ever used a damage mod boy?

Maybe I said it to get a rise :P

And I'll never use that thing again.

Everyone is brick tanking their suits in 1.7. Even Caldari are warring Plate. That gives the RR the edge. When TTK is increased it will make shields more viable, so less people will run armor plate. This will favour the Scrambler Rifle, and the Laser Rifle for that matter.

Add to that the fact that fully skilled Gallente Heavies will have a 15% resist to the RR, and the Scrambler Rifle will be very close to the RR there as well.

Well, in my opinion, you should only be engaging in long range anyway, so the scanner is less important. And im sure that by now you know how much of a crutch the scanners are. Considering there getting uber nerfed next build I would start getting off of them if I were you.

The ASR is an abomination worthy of a barrage of rounds from the barrels of a Hel.

It shouldn't be as good as it is.

I'd say it shouldn't even exist.

3 damage mods and proficiency 4 on my ASR is worse then 3 damage mods and proficieny 3 on my CR right now. (everyone is armor tanking) If shield tanking gets good again the ASR will probably be the polar opposite of the RR or CR.

What I don't understand is why CCP cant hotfix these things. Maybe its the fee for updating something through sony? But on EVE they do updates like every other day. They should be able to balance guns at the same rate! I mean, shouldn't they be able to keep the stats of the weapons we use server side? So that they can change them whenever they want to and not require us to download anything? Idk...... but yes, 1.8 is going to be my salvation!

I've been playing HMG heavy for two weeks, so I'm starting to get a feel for life without a scanner. But still tempted by a 1.8 nerf-busting dual scanner Gallente logi fit

The ASR is supposed to be a cheap knock off of Gallente tech. It's not the best weapon, but a hell of a lot better than the tactical, breach or burst ARs, which are what it should be compared with.

Remnant's first statement on the matter was actually that they were hotfixing it (early January I think that was). I almost had a stroke but then he said a few days later that the coding was way more difficult than they anticipated somehow so it was pushed back to 1.8.