I have been saying that the AR should be the king of CQC for the longest time and I hate GAL's ( the race ) , I can agree with that but to say that the ARR or any RR needs another kick buff shows your bias , you can barely hold that thing straight at times even with burst intervals and sometimes you just cant burst fire because of the POS hit detection problems , so you have to fire and pray that it register .

Caldari might have the highest base damage because even though they have the most high slots , shields suck and are the first to take damage and Caldari are slow , have weak stamina and stamina recovery along with the least amount of armor health , so if you want those shields to work right you have to use regulators , energizers and chargers ( that's why most complain about shields because they don't want to do that and is the only race that's gimped so much and HAVE to do that to make their niche work for them ) so you don't have time for all DMG mods , you can do that just like you could dual tank and hell , sometimes you need to just to be effective but the fact that they have to use at least three mods for their niche to work might have something to do with that .

Least low slots / armor HP's , bad stamina / stamina regeneration and having to fit shield plates , chargers , energizers / rechargers as well as using one of the lows for regulators might have something to do with them having such high DPS for their weapons . No other suit has to do what the Caldari does just to make it work .

I understand , I'm not touchy like most .. might have been in the past but this is the internet , people say crap just to get a rise out of someone so I understand but I see Amarr Commando's using AR's , I see Gal Commando's using laser's .. I think that some just like what they like and the fact that you can use a long rang weapon on a suit that you can armor tank and get 20 sum odd rps, might have something to do with that as far as you seeing what you do .

I see people mix and matching all the time though .

I never give it much thought beyond them using a weapon for a suit that's not covered by the bonus of the suit but that's their choice .

I m having a lot of troubles with rail rifles, sometimes i have to release R1 to start shoot, when this kind of thing dont happen it kinda melt everything...

Yeah i know, dont tell me about the railgun reload bug xD, in my experience it seems it happens more often when you face people from other regions, like every EU pub match lol

Hell , I'll back you on that but I guess someone or something has to be at the bottom of the pole and like Caldari suits , the AR is the Caldari suit of rifles .

It should be the best at CQC though but it seems that they just don't know how to do that without making the gun OP or weak in other area's .

I'm sure you remember when people were crying " AR514 " and now it has suffered for that , maybe they just don't want another take of the same again but that gun should be the best in CQC and it's not .

I think that the damage profiles of all rifles need another look but things don't happen around here unless certain people speak out or everyone backs a movement , I've noticed this much .

If damage profiles changed , that might be a way to bring all rifles into the actions that they should be in but right now scrambler rifles kill armor and shields as well as most rifles , they don't do one thing better then another , they do both just the same with the difference being in their ranges and that needs to change so that you would see a greater difference in their functionality .

Probably the reason that anything that has range is the most used .