Keifomofutu, on 02 May 2013 - 11:04 AM, said:
The current light "balance" is for Raven to be the numero uno light in virtually every situation. That's not balance at all.
Raven will still be a good gunboat after the change. It just won't be the best one. Jenner can't disrupt the enemy team. You really sound like you want to have your cake and eat it too with the Raven 3L.
The problem in the light-balancing meta has
never been the ECM. It's been the Streaks. Ravens (3Ls) were...passable skirmishers at best pre-ECM and every other non-Jenner was a joke. This was, simply, because 4MLAS+2SSRM > 3MLAS+2SSRM. When ECM came in, the fight went to 4MLAS vs 3MLAS+2SSRM and the Raven became king. HSR has moved things back slightly, since the value of MLAS in the equation has gone up slightly compared to the SSRM (although still nowhere near equal, needs fixing).
I'm not sure yet, personally, what effect this will have. HSR has changed things up, making SSRM less essential (although still horribly broken) and 1.5t is a lot for a light mech to set aside. There's also the increase of effectiveness of the JR7-F, which has been the best combat light since day one, it's just got a very high skill floor to get that out of it.
El Bandito, on 03 May 2013 - 08:46 PM, said:
My Streak cat managed to dance between 180-200 meters when there was an enemy ECM carrier nearby, so I am sure lights can do something similar now that the tables are turned.
In fairness, they'll have to aim at the same time. That's already double the work.
Le Edit: Does bring up a point though - ECM-carrying lights dominance was actually more about larger missile-heavy mechs than it was about other lights. Whatever anyone says, a Jenner against a Raven has a decent chance (although less than 50%, granted) if the pilots are equal. Against a Streak-Cat or Streak-Treb or any-assault-with-spare-missile-hardpoints they're toast. Hitting gunlines is going to be more or less impossible once those quad-PPC stalkers start loading out
6 4-5 SSRM launchers and a BAP.
Edited by Gaan Cathal, 04 May 2013 - 12:40 AM.