"support weapon"? what, does it shoot out nanohives and heal teammates? Its a weapon, its meant to kill; a weapon is by definition offensive.
Where does it say "support" in the description? Why would anyone spend skill points and ISK on a "support weapon"?

Support weapon as in crowd control weapon, hence the name Mass Driver. There are alot of people that play a support role that would spend both skill points and isk on a support weapon, like logistics users that want to help their teammates.

-Flux Grenade

-Engage at mid range

-Don't engage in CQC

-Get above them

Finally, after months, someone crying about being killed by a mass driver!

Now to business

If you havent noticed, MDs were hard to aim, unwieldy potato launchers for a long time.
Now MDs are hard to aim, unwieldy grenade launchers. They do damage now, yes I know, crazy.

And they will allways be outclassed in direct battle by hitscan weapons, unless teamwork is involved.

Remember, a gun is only OP if its good outside of its effective role.
And if they happen to gang up on you with MDs, well, you wont cry rivers if they did that with duvolles, now would you?

And the problem with the godlock(not flaylocks in general), is that it has literally no downsides. There is no insensetive not to roll it at any given situation. As competetive play tends towards rushing and steamrolling, the gun with the highest effective DPS is the gun of choice, which happens to be godlock right now due to its ridiculous splash damage.

As another point - I think all explosive weapons that have significant splash radii should have much lower splash DPS. Things like missiles, grenades, flaylocks (mass drivers less so but still a little) - the direct hit damage should be high but splash low and the wider the splash, the lower the damage. In fact, why is it that you get the exact same splash damage at the very edge of the splash radius as you do right next to the impact spot? Surely there should be a damage falloff for the splash radius? That would solve all sorts of the OP issues people have with explosive weapons.

Mass Drivers, in my opinion they should go back to 4 shots a clip. Their damage is just fine I believe, but they just don't need 6 shots a clip. If up against shield tankers Flux + 1-2 shots kills them. If up against armor tankers 4 shots is more than enough to kill them. 6 shots a clip is just overkill.

What I'm trying to suggest with this is that it's splash radius should be reduced enough so that it won't take down entire groups of people with 3-5 shots.

But it should be, if it cant do that, why should one fear it?

Its the same logic behind the HMG nerf, a suppression weapon does need to have slayer potential, but only the potential. Like if someones dumb enough to run in a bullet stream head on. Now the HMG is just a very short range slayer weapon.

I figured you are were an MD user. By saying groups I mean 4-5 people, if that sounds logical to you then please, stop replying to this thread. I am perfectly ok with getting killed by MDs, but the abillity to wipe out an entire squad with one clip is not logical.

I figured you are were an MD user. By saying groups I mean 4-5 people, if that sounds logical to you then please, stop replying to this thread. I am perfectly ok with getting killed by MDs, but the abillity to wipe out an entire squad with one clip is not logical.