With the proficiencies changed, and the overall ttk increase. Rate of Fire is now king.

Doesn't matter if the gal ar is "better" against shields; with the combat rifle's rate of fire, the proficiency difference is merely a shallow speed bump to it's performance.

I even posted a while back that the "fixes" to the gallente tactical assault rifle are now obsolete in today's environment. 18 round magazine and it's rof cap are completely insufficient. It's stats were made for an era when 11 tar rounds would put down the toughest heavies....
...that doesn't happen anymore.

The Gallente AR family is in a bad way.
I'm not going to make anymore suggestions to weapon stats either, because I'm one of the main ones that proposed the Gallente TAR's current stats.
If I had any idea things would be the way they are now, I would have never said anything.

Just going to keep quiet and see how CCP decides to proceed. At this point, because of how radically different damages are now, I don't have any clue what kind of metrics CCP is following.
So nothing but silence from me.

Watch CCP take this as a the community wanting the AR nerfed even further?



Nerfing the Breach Assault Rifle was all the proof we needed to how deep their incompetence is.

The AR needs a lot of work. And so do all the variants.

Proficiency skills need an overhaul.

The Tac AR nerfs should be removed and/or be given a charge shot that functions just like the ion pistol.

The breach should have a higher ROF and a scope.

The burst AR shouldn't fire individual bursts, but instead it should shoot ~5 pellets at once in a fully automatic fashion. Removing the scope and making it more like an automatic shotgun would be so much fun to play with.

The vanilla AR should have both a higher ROF and mag capacity. The AR should be able to go harder and longer in CQCthan any other rifle. Other rifle users who stumble across an AR in CQC should squirt some brown. Currently the AR is "meh" at all distances.

Except AR was king for a solid 9+ months, probably longer.

I think it was just a Nerf to burn SP to sell more boosters, I don't know who actually thinks the AR is any sort of competitive.

The CR is setting itself up for a huge fall though, weapon is the best in the game right now. Completely versatile and almost no real weakness.

I agree, the ACR is ridiculous. The AR does have 2 things going for it though.

1: You run out of ammo much less. With an ACR (or even a CR for that matter) if you don't die, and don't run nanohives, you are constantly ammo starved. I don't find this the case with the AR.

2: Price. For less competitive game play, paying 17K for the cheapest ACR isn't possible for everyone. If you wan't a full auto rifle that isn't the RR, the AR is the way to go.

Other than these 2 things, and the whole reload after each kill that Kilo Shells mentioned, the ACR is victor.

I use the combat rifle, I have it prof 5 I can take out pretty much any suit that Is armor tanked (Gal heavys are the hardest if they are stacking armor plates)

I usually can't take out a shield tanked suit with 500+ shields especially the Caldari heavy even if I'm able to flank it. (Note I do only use the basic or adv Combat rifle in pubs).