Alright, Small Blasters, while better are still just not cutting it as a mostly dedicated Small Turret.

As some of you might know the small blasters now have a accuracy gain while firing similar to the HMG. The issue with the turret as is, is that by the time you have an accurate enough stream of fire you are about to overheat or run out of ammo. The problem with this is that the time it takes for you to get that constant DPS to kill anyone above STD they will very likely pluck your conveniently exposed head out of the gunner seat, especially if it's multiple people.


For Dropships it's still pretty obvious that Small Missiles are the way to go, Small blasters don't have enough accuracy for the range combined with the time it takes to get accurate to be viable but that's just the way it is but I'll get back to that later.

The way I see it is that there are three ways we could fix this issue.


Option 1: Have the Startup Spread & Reticle a smaller than what we have no to where you can at least hit a guy from 20 meters away then it gets accurate from there.

Option 2: Have an inverse firing mechanic which basically starts it off extremely accurate to less accurate....

Option 3: General Damage buff. This will allow those few initial stray shots to give the enemy the idea that he needs to back off before the pain train comes to town in a death stream.

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Now onto LAVs.


Like Blasters, LAVs are in a much better place but they still just aren't there yet.

The fitting increase as well as slot layout was much needed but it's still lacking.

When Rattati first initially nerfed the LAVs HP I thought that surely he would give us the slot layout we had before when LAVs were balanced but alas...here we are. LAVs gained 1 primary tank slot but not the their secondary slot which allowed the LAV to be a versatile support platform or in shields case, a boost to shields and shield resist (using the Power Diagnostic unit module and damage control unit)

The way I see it there are three ways to fix LAVs.

Option 1: Give the Saga it's second low slot back and the Methana it's second high slot back.

Option 2: Have tiered LAVs similar to how we have dropsuits that progress in fitting and slots. Example: STD Methana - 1H 3L. ADV Methana - 1H - 4L. PRO - 2H - 4L

Option 3: Have it tierd like tanks and give each races LAV it's own slot layout and only increase the fitting space between higher and lower levels. Saga LAV: 5H - 1L and Methana LAV 3H - 4L