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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2015.03.12 13:08:00 -
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Warlords Hotfix Echo has made the assault scrambler rifle extremely powerful, and it now outdoes the assault rile in both DPS and range by a lot. Like the scrambler rifle, the great strength comes with a great weakness to counter it, and that is the heat buildup/overheat mechanism.
For the regular scrambler rifle, the heat buildup weakness is diminished by the Amarr assault's bonus. For the assault scrambler rifle however, the heat buildup drawback is completely erased; the assault scrambler rifle in the hands of a lv5 Amarr assault just doesn't overheat, even when emptying an entire magazine. This means assault scrambler rifle low risk high reward.
Since the assault scrambler rifle is so powerful now, the Amarr assault bonus should not completely erase its weakness, but rather merely diminish it. Because of this, I propose the assault scrambler rifle should keep its damage buff (high reward), but the heat cost per shot should be increased such that even with Amarr assault lv 5, it should still overheat at around 55 rounds (high risk).
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2015.03.12 14:37:00 -
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bolsh lee wrote:Quit nerfing ****, actually fix Caldari shields..... Give us **** to counter it..
That's a very misinformed opinion. You really have no problem with the ASCR having more DPS, more range, bigger magazine, and less reload time than the AR? What is even the point of the AR then if another assault variant beats it at literally everything. The amount of DPS its doing makes shield and armor irrelevent, so I have no idea why you even bring up some vague undefined fix to deal with vague undefined supposed Caldari shield problem.
Vyuru wrote:I second Rattati's comment, but furthermore... Quote:Because of this, I propose the assault scrambler rifle should keep its damage buff (high reward), but the heat cost per shot should be increased such that even with Amarr assault lv 5, it should still overheat at around 55 rounds (high risk). Doing something like that would make the scrambler rifle completely pointless and obsolete on anything BUT a lvl 5 amarr suit. Therefore I am highly against it. You might as well be asking for the current assault rifle to have the kick of the rail rifle, making it unusable on anything but a gallente assault. IMO it's too soon to say if it warrants a change or not, but if a change needs to be made, make it a smart one.
Wrong. The regular scrambler rifle overheats with Amarr assault at lv5, and it oveheats even more without it. Despite this, it is still a decent weapon even without Amarr assault. Likewise, if you increase heat buildup to make the ASCR overheat with Amarr assault, and thus make it overheat even more without Amarr assaut, it can still be useful without it (like how the regular SCR is useful even without Amarr assault).
The fix I am proposing IS smart; its about taking advantage of an already existing balance mechanism (heat) using precedent from the regular SCR, instead of just nerfing DPS.
I just played a bunch of Skirmish and Ambush battles, and half the players were using Amarr assault and ASCR.
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2015.03.13 19:47:00 -
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Topher Mellen wrote:CCP Rattati wrote:I played around with it for a few matches, my KDR dropped from ARR and ACR. Still has problems with armor.
Let's see how it performs using real data. ^This. Anecdotal evidence is not how you balance an MMO. When and only when the data shows a balance issue should it be addressed.
I'm not talking about anecdotal evidence, i'm talking about cold hard stats. Look at the quotes with the numbers in the OP.
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