I look around the forums today, and all I see is people speaking of the end. The end of MechWarrior, the end of PGI and the end of viable weapon systems. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth as the time of the great PPC and Gauss sorrow consumes the population!
I hear them cry out that something should be done.. they say "Nerf them!" and defile the name of a popular toaster pastry as these weapons rain down from the skies like wrath from an angry Norse God.
But let me ask you, brothers and sisters, at what point did we find ourselves in this dark path? How did only two weapons become viable to the untrained player? Surely they must be overpowered, only now being discovered? Lies, I tell you, for they are not overpowered! No, this wrath is because you have turned against your savior, the missile.
Let us read passages from the forums two months ago, when this weapon was called an abomination by the ignorant who did not understand that it was already inferior at it's job: They called it the harbinger of the end. Splat cats cannot be stopped, I hear. LRMs are easy mode, I hear, and weep for their misunderstanding and hope for their redemption as they come to understand good tactics.
Now let me ask you, what happened when this harbinger was struck down? Two more rose in it's place like unto a beast of legend, more dominant before. Because what you demonized was your savior all along.
When the LRMs rained from the heavens and brutally punished the slow, the large and those foolish enough to move without cover, and arc'ed to follow the tightest of flights, did we have this problem? When the SRM could tear hot PPC 'mechs limb from limb, on a fast moving medium?
No, I say to you, we did not! Should we strike this latest victim down, I say unto you that the Large Laser shalt replace it and the AC/20 after that, with no end until all is useless!
Brothers and sisters, let us stop calling for nerfs and start calling for buffs. Let us buff the Pulse Lasers to deliver their damage faster. Let us increase artillery to savage defensive positions. Let us see LBX/10 that do damage, and let missiles return to their glory, so that the SRM may smite these foes from the field and the LRM end those who do not move with skill.
Let us turn from the ignorance of demonizing things we do not understand, calling for their doom without considering the consequences.. and start seeing calls for buffs, and we will see the light!
Can I get an AMEN?
Edited by Victor Morson, 19 April 2013 - 11:08 PM.