The other day I got insta-killed by a viziam. This dude didn't even have to heat that thing up, I poked out, he started lasering from a cold start, and I was dead 1/64th a second later. Yeah, lotta good that ~600 HP health did me

It was such a crazy experience, that I really am considering getting myself a viziam. Skill respec soon, so why not? Even the basic laser with 3 complex damage mods owns quite nicely (which for me brings it to the baseline damage of the Viziam with no damage mods, 19.5 something HP). If I decide to go with viziam under same suit loadout, I can pull off roughly 30 HP, which will be freaking insane!

Now hold up there, i'm a laser rifle user and i've got to say, if you don't wanna get melted do not 1) wear militia suits and 2) don't stick your head up until ive moved onto another target, if you keep down i wont miss out on loads of other kills by waiting for you to pop out. Also if anyone gets within close range of me(which isnt hard because im a laser heavy) then im usually almost certainly dead, even by militia suits, even my scrambler pistol cant fight ARs at close range. Its all about timing and waiting for the right moment to strike at me. Enjoy this advice, it may help you to kill me someday:P

lets do a bit of math then...... vk.1 suit with x4 complex damage mods = 40% damage buff (assuming the stacking penalty is still broken), that with a 10% buff from weaponry adds up to 50%. The viziam does 20 damage per shot. 20 x 1.5 = 30. So what we have here is a suit with about 450 hp (using my skills), and a Standard AR that has zero recoil, a higher rate of fire, and charges up damage in this order.....

1 sec of firing = 20 'shots' (roughly) each one doing 30 damage
2 sec of firing = 20 'shots' (roughly) each one doing 60 damage (or 40, or 50 depending on how the charge works with damage mods)
3 sec of firing = 20 'shots' (roughly) each one doing 90 damage (or 60, or 70 depending on how the charge works with damage mods)

Assuming the 90 damage per shot variation is correct your dealing about 1800 damage per second by your last second (before overheat) and you still get about 10 more shots in the fourth second using the viziam.

Pretty much. Also, I doubt that the LR is doing 1800 per second or tanks would not exist. I can drop the shields of a tank with proto LR but it I usually die soon after because the tank has plenty of time to turn and kill me. Yes, the LR is a tear jerker but I don't think it is OP.

Buff damage and remove damage build up over time.

Yay for losing a proto suit with 520 HP because a laser decided to gloss over me for a second.

lets do a bit of math then...... vk.1 suit with x4 complex damage mods = 40% damage buff (assuming the stacking penalty is still broken), that with a 10% buff from weaponry adds up to 50%. The viziam does 20 damage per shot. 20 x 1.5 = 30. So what we have here is a suit with about 450 hp (using my skills), and a Standard AR that has zero recoil, a higher rate of fire, and charges up damage in this order.....

1 sec of firing = 20 'shots' (roughly) each one doing 30 damage
2 sec of firing = 20 'shots' (roughly) each one doing 60 damage (or 40, or 50 depending on how the charge works with damage mods)
3 sec of firing = 20 'shots' (roughly) each one doing 90 damage (or 60, or 70 depending on how the charge works with damage mods)

Assuming the 90 damage per shot variation is correct your dealing about 1800 damage per second by your last second (before overheat) and you still get about 10 more shots in the fourth second using the viziam.

4 x 10 = 40 i think

EVE math, percentage is multiplied.

Two 10% damage mods (no stacking penalty) = 1.21 multiplier (1.10 * 1.10).

Four 10% damage mods (no stacking penalty) = 1.4641 multiplier (1.10 * 1.10 * 1.10 * 1.10)

Except that we do have stacking penalty (yes, it's just a display bug), so it's 29,9% for 4 damage mods.

Proof?

Perfect solution:

Keep damage the same and make it an actual laser shot much like what you see in "Star Wars" instead of a laser beam style gun.

I don't think it is very fair for LR users to just be able to sweep their laser back and forth over the battlefield and kill everyone the laser touches.

The power is fine and realistic...lasers are commonly used nowadays in factories to precision cut thick steel plating and other materials. They are highly powerful. Their just needs to be limitation on the extent to which that power can be used. Make LR users have to take the time to pick their target aim and fire a few shots to take them down...the laser sweeping has to end.

As for cooking the laser... Does anyone realize how much time and luck and ammo it takes to cook the laser somewhere with the hopes to pull it out in battle and get someone? That is a lot of variables..