Xocoyol Zaraoul
Zumari Force Projection
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.07.16 22:24:00 -
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Aeon Amadi wrote:Anyone else think that Blasters are a bit under-powered when compared to their Eve-style brothers..?
They apparently work well at short range, I just personally avoid them as I prefer to either A.) Snipe with railguns or B use missiles to splash damage everything and cover-be-damned (My large missile turret on my Sag' means that is every 2.5 seconds a salvo of 4 missiles each doing 225 direct/120 splash, so even if I miss with all 4 that is still 480 splash damage with a blast radius of 8 meters.)
Small Blasters seem really great at anti-infantry, but the large ones just seem lackluster as the missiles produce more "fear" which I need to help give my friendly infantry cover.
I've never been able to create a "bubble" that the enemy keeps away from when using blasters or acting as a gunner in a blaster tank because even though the DPS is nuts, it simply is not as scary as creating constant thunderstorms of 8 meter radius firestorms.
Let's face it, a guy can weather a second or two of fire and not care from even high end small blaster turrets, where as a single splash of an AT-1 missile dealing 220 damage with a 5 meter splash will keep most infantry well away from the infantry you are trying to protect. You can pop out and take a few small blaster rounds and snap off shots at the infantry, but if a missile is blasting the entire side of your cover, you can't possibly weather it long enough to pop around the corner to snapshot if the entire corner is constantly exploding everything within 5 meters.
Then again, I place a lot more value on intimidation and suppression fire then others might, but that is the best way to keep an area secure imo.
EDIT: Also i want to point out that a single railgun salvo or missile salvo will clear an area of any REs, blasters can't do this. |
Xocoyol Zaraoul
Zumari Force Projection
Caldari State
259
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Posted - 2012.07.17 03:52:00 -
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Aeon Amadi wrote:Do you guys think that (Large) Blasters should do splash damage? Honestly, I think Large Blasters should be something that puts off a sense of terror rather than, "Oh, it's just that, I can make it across the road if he's using that."
Larges ones do indeed do splash damage, it is just extremely small. |