Varoth Drac
Dead Man's Game
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Posted - 2015.07.26 23:13:00 -
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Shields barely have less hp if you look at actual equivalent fits. The only problem with shield tanking is that the increased regen potential isn't enough to offset the fact you don't regen through damage and have a bit less hp than armour. Energisers / rechargers should be buffed again.
Without the charged shot scramber rifles do less dps to armour than an smg, I did the maths. Please can people stop claiming they destroy armour. And forget about modded controllers. It rare to come across someone using one, and you can't even use a charged shot with a modded controller.
Regarding the charged shot, yes it's powerful when combined with an Amarr assault. But please can we not mess up something in this game that takes a bit of skill.
And yes, i'm not saying a scrambler charged shot is super difficult to use, but there's more to it than any other rifle. Even with an Amarr assault, the charge shot severely limits your damage output before overheat and completely relies on you connecting that shot and punishes you for missing. Plus there is the danger of overheat, causing damage and more importantly the stun effect.
When a weapon is truly OP everyone flocks to use it, as they have with every OP item in the history of Dust. The tactical scrambler rifle isn't even in the top 10 used rifles according to the market data.
Even if it was more effective than any other rife, scrambler rifles have by far the highest fitting cost of any rifle. Being slightly more effective would not be a problem.
If it truly does need nerfing again, I would suggest nerfing the hipfire dispersion again. Better dispersion is the main thing that the scrambler has over the tac AR. For a long ranged weapon the combo of charged shot plus good hipfire does make the scrambler a beast at short range. Though I will argue that currently the scrambler rifle does lack somewhat in long ranged engagements, even though it looks good on paper. I believe this is because the longer TTK in ranged engagements makes the overheat a real problem. Whereas a rail rifle can just keep firing slugs down range. |