AR needs something, I have buffed it 5 hotfixes in a row, and nothing seems to get it going...

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!?!?!

Its the friggen FOTM right now, and you want to buff it??!?!?!

I also do remember all the rifles getting nerfed to increase ttk a while back, I'm not sure if we got our damage back to the way it was back then but I do remember the Plasma Rifle didn't need to be touched at all. Whoever the DEVs were at the time were just swinging the nerf hammer widely and sporadically.


During the Short TTK era the Plasma Rifle still sucked but not because it was terrible. The Plasma Rifle was damn near perfect but in comparison to other rifles at the time it couldn't hold a candle to the other Rifle's TTK, then they blindly nerf all rifles and that puts it in the common era that we are still in now.



In fact, the Plasma Rifle started sucking when it was the only rifle in the game and people started crying that they were getting killed too often (By the only general purpose weapon in the game) so CCP proceeded to nerf it for god knows what.




P.S. And yes, I know the Duvolle Tactical had a short time in the sun for a brief second.

I hope you are joking, tried the ARs with a respec and they are all beasts now. I was getting top KDR with them in FW.

if there is anything wrong about gallente tech then it is the fact that gallente suits have the same mobility stats as caldari. gallente should be able to close the gap faster to apply their DPS up close.

Please Rattati don't buff it again, the gun is fine, it's more accurate, has more DPS, more damage per clip, better hit detection, this gun is working great. When you have a dual tanked suit (my Minmando has 412 shield and 406 armour), you realise how powerful the AR is, I prefer getting shot by a PRO ACR than by a GEK-38 AR. And if you have a shield oriented suit, the AR is a nightmare.
The problem isn't the AR, it's the meta. People are armour tanking. You can't make an anti-shield weapon performs as well as an anti-armour weapon without making it completely overpowered.

I really wonder why you think the AR needs a buff again.

as others have said its the most challenging to use effectively. more a suit buff needed than a gun buff.

I wouldn't change base speed, seems anti-lore and illogical for an armour suit. maybe a stamina buff, or a PG buff? fitting buff for kincats? }:-)

being fast has not much do to with "armor" or "shield". shield is not generated for free and shield generators are heavy. additionally it has nothing to do with eve lore. gallente is faster than amarr and caldari, simple as that, dust just for some reason does not follow this doctrine though.

This right here. In what universe does a military send their troops out with a weapon than tickles people past 60 meters?

Anyway, Gallente suits need to be faster/kin cats to high slots, and the Gallente assault bonus needs to be changed.

Every suit in the game can effectively use the hip fire of a Assault rifle, and there is no reason to make it more accurate than it already is. Maybe an increase in rate of fire as the trigger is held? Nothing crazy fast as it is already pretty quick, but just something that is synergistic with the rifle. And similar to the laser rifle trigger-held-damage-scaling.