Ten-Sidhe
Osmon Surveillance
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Posted - 2012.09.13 09:40:00 -
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Still could be used vs infantry, I can hit someone with a straight firing no splash rocket. Perhaps hav it not arm the warhead for 20-50m or so and let it have splash like swarm but double radius(this covers same area as 4 swarms) At long range rockets are easy to dodge, I danced with a HAV at few hundred meters without getting hit while shooting swarms.
Damage to match swarm pre-nerf/now
militia and standard 1400/1000
advanced 1750/1250
proto 2100/1500
splash 15damage in 1m radius for each missile
1500,1850,2200 damage for javalin standard,adv,proto seems good, 2m radius 15 damage splash(more annoying then threatening). It will get a boost from not needing lock and ability to fire in close areas. So not much extra damage is needed. Maybe a reduced range from swarm? It can fly farther then lock-on range, maybe javalin would be limited 350m or so. About real life effective rpg range(300m moving target, 500m fixed, self destruct 1000m).
Swarm to javalin is almost like EvE heavy missile to heavy assault missile. |
Ten-Sidhe
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
414
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Posted - 2012.09.13 10:11:00 -
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I don't know about op, I have killed tanks with swarm, assault forge and breach forge(not fan of breach forge gun).
The swarm used to be to effective vs infantry and was nerfed to prevent this. The reduced anti-infantry is to prevent this problem returning.
The forge is a heavy weapon, javelin would be light. I'm in favor of a heavy swarm and Heavy javelin also.
Forge fires after delay and hits near instantly, missile fires and has delay to hit.
Javelin should be shorter range then forge or swarm, forge range is listed as 1200m it needs to actual shoot that far in my opinion.
Javelin is not so much different as a in between of forge and swarm. EvE analog of heavy assault missile to forge's rail and swarm's heavy missile. Just need to add cruise missile and torpedo analog to heavy suit.
It also would be more familiar to fps players since it's basically an rpg.
If/when capacitor is added rockets don't need it forge will.
edit to second the LAW suggestion |