Josef Nader, on 07 March 2013 - 08:27 AM, said:
I'm not arguing the effectiveness of critting components and the value of that. It is impressive. The issue is getting to the point where you can actually do damage. The video is speed doubled to show how even doubling the raw damage on a 4MG boat is still utter weaksauce because you have to get through the armor before we can even begin to talk about crits.
In a normal combat scenario a 4 MG spider has almost 0 chance of sanding off enough armor to get to the gooey nougat center where the crit magic happens. I loaded a MPL while I was leveling the chassis in the one energy hardpoint, but that still leaves 4 hard points with 0 DPS until I can fire enough to bother using them. I found it was vastly more effective to load an ERLL or LPL and forget about the crit nonsense - you ain't loading a PPC in the CT. The Spider might as well be a 1 energy hard point mech.