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Goonfeet
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Posted - 2015.07.03 17:43:00 -
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Commandos on the gallente side suffer from not being able to get close enough, fast enough to capitalize on their firepower in my experience
WoW has taught me that Purple means Legendary. This means Quafe suits are the optimal loadout for killing all of you.
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Goonfeet
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Posted - 2015.07.04 10:13:00 -
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Veg Hegirin wrote:
You've got it backwards
Burst: Damage in a very short amount of time. Winner: Commandos (Flat damage bonus)
Sustained: Damage over a longer period of time Winner: Assaults (heat, clip size etc)
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Burst damageis a term used in MMOS to describe limited duration, high-impact damage. An example of burst damage would be the forge gun, because it is not doing its cataclysmic damage at a steady constant. It hammers, then stops then hammers. It is a limited-duration application of high damage.
Now let's use the previous example of the ammando and the amssault.
The ammando overheats significantly faster.
The ammando has lower potential DPS.
A triple-damage-mod amarr assault has a 1%-ish DPS advantage over the ammando because the ammando has one slot for damage mods, capping st +17% damage. The amssault can stack 3, achieving 18% plus some decimel change.
This means the amarr assault has a higher burst damage capability because of the overheat. It also can sustain a single-magazine firing a lot longer.
The ammando has a reload bonus... but it's heat dissipation doesn't keep up. It can still be cooling after it's fully reloaded.
It's little variables like this that make or break a balance between two suits.
Unfortunately the commandos were given a universal bonus rather than being bonused for racial role. The lack of racial diversity in bonusing has done as much to damage efficacy of the suits as much as the bad base stats have done.
Each of the the commandos has a quirk that makes their assault counterpart a better choice in almost all situations.
Example: the caldari commando has ghe hands-down WORST equivalent shield stats in the game.
WoW has taught me that Purple means Legendary. This means Quafe suits are the optimal loadout for killing all of you.
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Goonfeet
Special Planetary Emergency Response Group
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Posted - 2015.07.04 16:09:00 -
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Aeon Amadi wrote:
EDIT: Also, you're flipping back and forth on your argument here. Your first post, I'm trolling for proposing a 100% increase in magazine capacity because it is OP. In this post, somehow that isn't viable suppression? Which is it?
Schizophrenia.
WoW has taught me that Purple means Legendary. This means Quafe suits are the optimal loadout for killing all of you.
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Goonfeet
Special Planetary Emergency Response Group
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Posted - 2015.07.04 17:28:00 -
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Alena Ventrallis wrote:Give Gallente commandos 3% sprint speed per level. A free kincats at 5. Let's them get their plasma rifles into range quicker, which is in line with Gallente combat philosophy.
Errr... making it faster than the galassault seems...
Bad?
WoW has taught me that Purple means Legendary. This means Quafe suits are the optimal loadout for killing all of you.
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Goonfeet
Special Planetary Emergency Response Group
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Posted - 2015.07.08 21:36:00 -
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A suppressive weapon is by definition "A weapon with more than sufficient firepower to turn your ass to chutney if you stick your neck out into the open for any extended period of time."
Having more bullets than the competition is strictly optional.
Grenade launchers (mass drivers) are pretty much the definition of suppressive weapons. Laser Rifles are suppression from hell itself and fits the role perfectly.
the assault HMG is STARTING to push that direction.
there's a few others, but those are the stand-outs.
But for a weapon to be suppressive it needs to have the right combo of range and firepower. Mass drivers do it by alpha and AoE, laser rifles do it by range and scaling DPS.
WoW has taught me that Purple means Legendary. This means Quafe suits are the optimal loadout for killing all of you.
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