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Tesfa Alem
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Posted - 2015.08.31 08:06:00 -
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Laser rifle is a bit of bastard, until you have amarr assault maxed. Then its damage application works very well. it takes time to build up the damage, the heat buildup means you wont have the time to do good levels of damage unless you have the amarr assault.
Its unique, situational, tactical, and powerfull in the right hands, terrible in the wrong ones.
You can accidently get double digit kills with an HMG. Its okay to not have every weapon be general purpose. Its okay to need a suit to make the laser rifle usable. There a areason why we dont prefer to use rep tools on assaults rather than Min Logis.
Though i have ak.0 Assault maxed my typical laser suit is:
Amarr assault A/1
3 damage mods
3 plates
2 reps
Elm-7
SMG
Nanohives
How I use it: Pick the right ground is essential A good location, with some cover, where the enemy has to cross some open space to get to you. Since using the Laser tells you enemies exaclty where you are, be ready to relocate. HP buffer to survive any sniper fire, and to buy time against the ineveitable shotgun to the back.
Going through this thread CPM bros, the majority of player feedback says ''it aint broke dont fix it" I completley agree.
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Tesfa Alem
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Posted - 2015.08.31 10:26:00 -
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Breakin Stuff wrote:Is it "ain't broke" if it can't be used particularly effectively on any suit except one at max level?
That sounds to me like it is the sum total of the problem with the laser rifle
Thats where we will have to agree to disagree, because thats what I love about the laser rifle.
A part of the reason why there is so many complaints about Rail Rfile on galente suits is that it doesnt matter on which suit you usit on. It (RR) has no identity, and nothing to make players think its most useful on the caldari suit. Same with the AR. Both weapons are bland, generic, and have zero reason to spec into the gallente or caldari assult to make any use of them. Same with our generic HMG. It doesnt matter which heavy uses it, and players clamor for more race spefic, identity specific weapons.
Having a Racial weapon best used with thier racial counterparts to a devasting effect, and tough for the other races makes sense. It makes sense for the lore, and its a good reward for in game players that specialize in a certain race, that thier bonus is weapon specific and not easily replicated.
That is the purpose of the assault bonuses. The other racial assault bonus dont mean too much at all. Rail rifle needs to be better used on a cal assault than any other (its not) and gal assault need something better than dispersion on a weapon with 40m range (how are you going to miss at 40m?)
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Tesfa Alem
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Posted - 2015.09.20 20:51:00 -
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Breakin Stuff wrote:Forever ETC wrote:Breakin Stuff wrote:Ok so. Regardless of the wanting it to only be good on the amarr assault...
We're looking to increase its utility on any amarr suit. There is no value in a weapon that is only particularly useful at max skill on a single max-skill suit out of 20 different dropsuits, 5 of which are racially themed to it. Amarr Assault Skill: 2% to Overheat and 3% to Cooldown Time per level LR/ScR Operation Skill: 3% to Overheat and 2% to Cooldown Time Increased usability of Laser Weaponry on all suits, no need to balance with Amarr Assault Skill, and Amarr Assault still keeps it's place as King. King doesn't bother me. Only functional one? that is entirely my issue. this is going on my list of potential tweaks.
better rework the whole rifle from scratch. The main point of contention about how the scr is used has always been high damage, high risk, high sp investment to mitigate that risk. take away the high risk and you have the laser version of the rail rifle.
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Tesfa Alem
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Posted - 2015.09.20 21:07:00 -
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Breakin Stuff wrote:and yet the scrambler is used less than the rail rifle and combat rifle.
and that's a good thing.
The other rifles are as vanilla as it gets. Rails just have the massive range advantage. There is no reason to spec into the caldari assault when it's racial weapons work just as well if not better on other suits. There is something wrong when the gallente assault is the best rail rifle suit.
High sp + learning curve as you learn to mitigate the issues of the scrambler as you level up rewards you with a frankly very powerful weapon.
take that power and spread it to everyone, there is no longer any reason to kep it's high damage. let alone making the amarr assault bonus as useless as the assault dropship bonuses the advantage becomes tiny. its not king, more like the jack of the laser weapons.
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