DarthJT5
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RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2015.03.13 03:33:00 -
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Large Missiles are horribad. The worst they ever have been in the history of Dust, and completely out classed by rails, so something needs to be done. I consider myself an expert on them as I have used them for over 2 years. That being said, here are my ideas on how to balance them (with inspiration from Pokey Dravon).
Currently, Missiles have several problems.
1. They have the same ammo capacity as the Rail, which is dumb, considering the rail does 3x the damage of a missile. Missiles should have at least double, at most triple the total ammo of rails to be fair.
2. They don't have enough damage in a magazine to justify having the longest reload time of all the turrets.
3. They no longer shoot fast enough to actually do any decent damage before hardeners or other mods are activated.
4. They're not even good at killing armor tanks of the same tier anymore.
So here are my proposed changes.
Change RoF from 200 to 400 again. Surprisingly, I'm pretty sure pre Echo missiles would be just fine in this climate we have now, with armor being very good and shield also being as impervious as ever to explosive damage.
Change total ammo capacity from 108 to around 250-300 so they can stay on the field as long as a rail.
Change magazine size from 12 to 10. This change might suprise you, but now we get t the good part.
Change reload time to start at 2 seconds instead of 6, and then make a total reload take around 6 seconds before skills.
With these changes, we can redefine what the Large Missile is supposed to do. Low EHP tanks will be insta-gibbed, as it should be. But, against high -EHP tanks, the new Missiles will become the perfect ambush weapon. Get behind your opponent, take out a huge chunk of their HP before they can activate mods, reload very quickly, and then you begin the fight as normal with a good advantage over your opponent. Thus, we move away from the "kill in one mag or be killed" mentality and give MIssiles a real role.
Dedicated Shield Tanking vet since Open Beta.
Veteran Python Pilot for 1 year.
The awnser is always XT missiles....
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