The weapon will now be total trash on anything besides on Amarr assault. Newbies will be totally unable to kill with this weapon so no new ScR users will be popping up anytime soon.


I am glad that we could come up with a band aid to make sure the weapon is only viable after spending a few million SP. Typical CCP I suppose. Introduce huge skill bonuses on certain suits and then only balance around those bonuses effectively nulling anyone else. This is why we will never have a new player experience worth speaking of.


Buy more boosters if you want to be able to use anything besides an assault rifle.

Do I smell an FA party in here?

The ScR in both variants will still be strong in it's intended purpose, especially on Amarr Suits where the heat build up is less of an issue, especially on the AScr. The ScR was never intended to work as walking around with a constant charge shot. It is, according to what I have seen / read, supposed to basically allow for two modes: One for assaulty shooty fun, and one for high precision shots, almost like a close-range laser sniper.

I use AScr on my Am Assault (lvl 5) and I don't think I've ever overheated it even when wildly firing an entire clip slightly to the left of some guy.

Also the charge shot feature is not going away, and that can still straight up kill more lightly armored scouts and shield tankers.

The curious feature about the AScR is the 15% damage buff we received a while ago so that weapon will still be an anomaly on the damage / range curve. This means that the AScR will still have a lot of value, even more so with the shield buff.

ScR was OP, the nerf was inevitable. I like the charge changes, it makes sense that only Amarr can truly use the weapon to its potential. Ever tried the Laser Rifle on another suit? Probably it'll be the same thing.

The Gallente Assault gets a spread reduction coupled with an increase in RoF.... How the hell is that not going to make the TAR better than the ScR?