Thokk Nightshade
KNIGHTZ OF THE ROUND
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Posted - 2014.07.10 23:58:00 -
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Fox Gaden wrote:Reading your post Bormir1r I can only conclude that you have not played an HMG Sentinel long enough to have any clue what you are talking about.
Reticule: It is not as bad as it was in the old days, but I still have to get the dot in the centre of the circle on target to apply full damage. You can remove the outer circle completely for all I care. All I need is the dot.
Turn Speed: With and HMG Sentinel if I am attacked from behind I will be half dead by the time I get turned around, and checking my flank is a slow process. The weight of your weapon effects your suitGÇÖs turn speed, so the HMG is slowing our turn speed already. It already takes us 2 seconds to check both ways before crossing the street.
Range: The HMG had more range before they fixed the dispersion. In the old days of what I call the GÇ£Precision HMGGÇ¥ I once got an HMG kill at 60m. Now I have trouble applying DPS to people on the other side of a street unless I switch to an Assault HMG, and then I am sacrificing Close Quarter DPS.
Heat Buildup: Not even mentioned. The balance mechanic which is there ready to use, and you never even mention it.
Thankfully CCP Rattati has some understanding of the Sentinel Class. Heat Buildup is the obvious way to balance the HMG, if any balance adjustments are needed.
^^^^ THIS ^^^^^ Seriously, where are people getting these "50 or 60 meters" at? Using an assault HMG, I would guess my longest kill is probably about 40 meters, and that was tag teaming a guy with a CR who wore him down and I got a couple bullets landing at the end. I can only think of one or two instances where I was killed by an HMG where the distance said anything higher than that, and 90% of my deaths from HMGs are 25 meters or less. The ones that don't are almost always from assault HMGs or there is more than 1 person firing at me (someone using a CR or RR and a heavy is shooting at me as well). This includes my Logis, Commandos, and Sentinels.
Rattati, thank you for not listening to all these people wanting to make Sentinels a rock. "Please Mr. Sentinel, stand still and let me gradually wear you down without giving you any chance to fight back or run away as long as I stay on the other side of the street from you."
Thokk Kill. Thokk Crush. Thokk Smash.
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