High RoF
Armor Damage.
Similar raw DPS.

The main advantage of ARs are their massive magazine sizes now. Which makes them better at 1v2 than a ACR could hope to be even with Minassault.

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

Go look at blaster weapons in eve. They do higher damage per shot than any other close range weapon and second highest rate of fire. Gallente weapon bonuses are always damage and rate of fire.

The AR should be the shotgun of rifles. Superior, overwhelming dps regardless of whatever you're shooting at. That said, gallente ships would have the same problem though if propulsion mods were moved to low slots.

The problem with AR is with application because of it's short range. You need to be faster than your target in order to get into and stay within range. Madruggar tanks without a fuel injector have the same problem when using blasters too.

The fix is two things:

1. increase sprint speed of gallente or move kincats to high slots.

2. Place AR dps higher. Keep increasing damage as rof is good enough. 40 damage per shot at standard. See what happens.

You need to buff ROF or optimal range on the AR or change the Gallente Assault bonus to ROF or optimal range per level.

Blue tag posts.

Conversation involving math and about 6-7 people interested in it devolves into post with tons of random posts with anecdotal evidence and complete lack of evidence + random suggestions and jumps to completely unrelated topics. (it's a thread about CRs vs Ars, but lets talk about how the ScR or the HmG compares...anecdotally of course.)

Hilarity ensues.