Numbers are probably way too high. SL's get some of their extra damage due to the fact they cannot be used on infantry or neutral installations.

if a dropship is moving and at a distance its hell to hit one with a PLC.. leave it as it is..

if a pilot is stupid enough o be moving too slow and too close its their own fault

Is it wrong that I still have this tiny (if shriveled) glimmer of hope left that AV will one day send LAV's rolling if hit in the side? Sorry, just popped to mind when I saw "explosion momentum".....

This is about what I was thinking when I was saying the PLC should rival the forge in damage potential a few months ago since it has so many other drawbacks and already OHK's pretty much everything anyway. (and everyone said "~but the forge is a heavy weapon~")

If you can push it through, I'm behind it.

~Overlord

Edit: 120m/s might be a bit much though from the anti-infantry side of things.

I feel all it really needs at this point is a projectile bonus, I mean when put in the hands of a commando the alpha damage vs vehicles is ridiculous. I'm fully capable of soloing armor or shield tanks running an adv PLC on an adv commando.

But you are forgetting it has significant splash damage. I don't know the travel time of it's projectiles, but the Breach MD has a splash radius of only 3m whereas this weapon has a splash of 3.5m with much more damage output (not even mentioning it's ability to AV). If you are going to up it's speed, damage AND reload speed, you are going to need to at least cut it's blast radius in half.

Yes it is, but it's also going from "Oh look, a shooting star...." speed to "It's coming right for us!" speed. Increasing it's projectile speed alone is cause enough to reduce it's radius as it cuts down on your need to compensate for enemy movement. You have a lot more here than a change in projectile speed. I don't feel shaving off 1m of splash to make up for your enemy's reduced reaction time is asking too much.

I really like the PLC and want it to be effective, but I also don't want it to become TOO easy to use. I don't want it becoming the next FotM weapon. I'm not saying your changes would cause this, but we've all seen how small changes can throw something into FotM status and these changes give a guaranteed OHK upon hit even on the tankiest sentinels despite resistances. 120m/s ranged OHK shotgun with a blast radius basically. I'm just asking you reduce the blast radius to help cut back on spam.

Plasma Cannon is in a good place right now with the direct damage buff and the reduction in fire interval from 1.5 seconds to 0.5 seconds. CCP also feels this is the case and hence noe more buffs or changes will come to the PLC which I agree with.

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I have prfi 5 gallamando 3. Running dual Allotek PLC. Trust me the damage is there, it all depends on how you want to use the weapon.

that's 3k damage base on direct shot to a tank and 626 base damage splash against infantry. It's more than enough to get things done. And even if you can't kill a tank, av isnt meant to solo tanks

Swarm launcher has no anti infantry capabilities; that's why it does what it does.

Okay, I very much disagree with your intentions with the spike damage. I would much prefer a magazine size increase over a massive damage buff.

Your PLC is hitting for 1801.8 damage, which increases to 2081.08 including maxed GalMando and a single Complex Damage Mod. A Gunnlogi has 2650 base shields.
At maxed proficiency, this rounds out to 2632 damage against shields in a single shot.

Essentially, your PLC will two-shot a huge number of Gunnlogi fittings, assuming you're using dual PLCs. If you've a swarm in the other slot you'd likely be able to solo most vehicles without too many issues.

It's not reasonable to say 'but it has a short range' either. HMG has a short range.

Rather than the huge damage buff you're proposing, I'd suggest a DPS increase via magazine size or reload speed, rather than a flat damage bonus.

Finally, it's unreasonable to equate "can't kill infantry" with "can't consistently hit dropships".

They're very different things.