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[Bishop Steiner]

Howdy. Oftentimes, people favorite mechs are the ones they do best in, but not always. I have chassis that I like almost unreasonably, despite no being terribly good in them, and others I do well in, but not my best. Kinda curious what the "faves" are in MWO right now.

- Light Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Firestarter
Best Mech- FS9-E Ember

- Medium Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Griffin
Best Mech - SHD-2D2 ShadowHawk

- Heavy Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Orion
Best Mech - CTF-IM Ilya Muromets

- Assault Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Victor
Best Mech - BLR-1D Battlemaster

- Hero Mechs
Favorite Hero - Ember
Best Hero - Ilya Muromets


Overall, I prefer Medium Mechs, as their "do everything " style suits my freelancing nature. The Griffin is just visual perfection, the WW II aircraft head/cockpit really gives it that ancient look, appropriate for one of the earliest Mech designs. Add in it's ridiculous agility, and aside from a little heat issue, it's golden. I love the Orion for much the same reasons. But for actual game play, not much can touch the favorable hitboxes, and mobility of the ShadowHawk, except the Firestarter.

[Levi Porphyrogenitus]

The Best entries are my personal best mechs, not what I think are objectively the best in class.

Light
Favorite: Firestarter
Best: Firestarter

Medium
Favorite: Shadow Hawk or Hunchback, I'm not quite sure
Best: Cicada, probably

Heavy
Favorite: Cataphract
Best: Jagermech

Assault
Favorite: Atlas
Best: Battlemaster

Hero
Favorite: Ember
Best: Firebrand

[Wintersdark]

Light
Favourite: Firestarter
Best: None. I'm unspeakably bad in lights. I mean, really, really bad at lights.

Medium
Favourite: Griffin
Best: Shadowhawk

Heavy
Favourite: Previously Dragon, particularly my Flame, but Ghost Heat has just broken that. Now... Probably the Jagermech
Best: Jagermech

Assault
Favourite: Battlemaster
Best: Highlander

Hero
Favourite: [Previously Flame] Heavy Metal
Best: Heavy Metal

[CheeseThief]

- Light Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Commando
Best Mech - Locust 1V(P)...

- Medium Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Griffin
Best Mech - Hunchback 4G

- Heavy Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Dragon
Best Mech - Cataphract 1X

- Assault Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Atlas
Best Mech - Atlas RS

- Hero Mechs
Favorite Hero - Grid Iron
Best Hero - Grid Iron

Edited by CheeseThief, 22 March 2014 - 07:16 PM.

[Flyby215]

Light
Best: Jenner - Well, obviously...
Favourite: Locust - If I do bad, well its a Locust. If I do really good, I can totally trash talk everyone!

Medium
Best: Hunchback (Swayback and Gridiron roughly even)
Favourite: Gridiron by far (got the cheerleader to boot)

Heavy
Best: Jester - Heck yeah!!!
Favourite: Catapults in general, loved them since MW2 Mercs... but I absolutely love my Jester! Nothing sounds like dual AMS shredding missiles, JJs, dual high-mounted PPCs, good run speed, this mech is my heart and soul!

Assault
Best: Stalker 5S (only because of strong premades)
Favourite: Misery by a longshot: I will halt the clan invasion with this mech! I fail to find a match almost as often as I get to play it, but this mech is the most dangerous in my roster. 2xLL 1xPPC 1xAC20

[Praehotec8]

Lights

Favorite - Locust
Best - None

Mediums

Favorite - Shawdowhawk
Best - SHD-2H

Heavy

Favorite - Catapult A-1
Best - CPLT-Jester or ONI-1V

Assault

Favorite - Stalker
Best - STK-Misery

For me, nothing yet beats the power and durability of the close-range brawling Misery (AC20, LPL, 4ML, SRM-6) However, still waiting the true clan mechs to arrive!

[Rear Admiral Tier 6]

Lights:

- Jenner

Mediums:

- Blackjack BJ-1 or Hunchback any variant

Heavies:

- Quickdraw QKD-5K,good allrounder laserboat with jumpjets,good when paired with a beefy XL and couple of jumpjets.

Assaults:

- no opinion,i am really bad piloting these,mobility and speed is my thing

[Phelantau]

Lights:
Favorite: Only own a spider and locust so no room for comparison.
Best: Spider

Medium:
Favorite: Shadowhawk
Best: Shadowhawk-2d2 (It's a beast!)

Heavy:
Favorite: Cataphract, Orion
Best: Orion 1-K (My poor mans Atlas. For some reason I'm just crazy consistent with it.)

Assault:
Favorite: Battlemaster,Atlas
Best: Battlemaster-1S (My brawler, 4 SRM 6's on chainfire almost always makes the other guy flinch first.)

Hero:
Favorite: Ilya Muromets (I play to aggressive, I do great damage but I die a LOT.)
Best: Yen Lo Wang

Edited by Phelantau, 22 March 2014 - 11:21 PM.

[RG870]

Lights
- Spider SDR-5D
ECM, rather slim => not too easy to hit, can fulfill many different roles

Mediums
- Hunchback
No specific model, like them all. HBK-4G / Grid Iron with 2 AC2s are fun. HBK-4P with 9ML suffers from heat penalty, but still works fine to me. HBK-4SP is my favorite as there is no huge hunch everybody is firing at. Since LRMs still are broken, i often run it with 2x LPL + 1x ML.
- Shadowhawk
It's gonna be my next chassis after I got the 3th Stalker to get elite. Very interesting medium mech.

Heavies
- Catapult K2
Although I'd like to vote the Jester first it suffers too much from the too weak and too hot energy weapons. In the K2 with 2 ballistics I do roughly 250dmg more a match than in my Jester.
- Jagermechs (all)
Love to run them with either 2 AC5s, 2 AC2s or 1-2 LB-Xes + some MLs. Although it was one of the last chassis I bought it's the one with my best K/D and dmg per match score. I wish ballistics and energy weapons were more balanced, but as long as ballistics shine, the Jagers are the way to go (or Cataphracts if you get used to the low mounted arm ballistics).

Assaults
- Stalker STK-3F + Misery
As I'm more the energy weapon guy Stalkers are the way to go for me. Love the torso twist of the 3F. Even though the Misery's got that beautiful ballistics slot I mostly run it with 4 ERLLs + 1xML and the 3F with 4x ERLL + 2xML.

Edited by RG870, 23 March 2014 - 03:43 AM.

[MisterPlanetarian]

- Light Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Raven
Best Mech- Jenner-F

- Medium Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Hunchback
Best Mech - SHD-2H

- Heavy Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Jagermech
Best Mech - CTF-IM

- Assault Mechs
Favorite Chassis - King Crab
Best Mech - STK-M

- Hero Mechs
Favorite Hero - Misery
Best Hero - Ilya Muromets

[Maverick27]

Agreeing with many others here but...

- Light Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Firestarter
Best Mech-FS9-S

- Medium Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Wolverine
Best Mech - Wolvie 6R (in love with it)

- Heavy Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Cataphract
Best Mech - Ilya

- Assault Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Battlemaster
Best Mech - Atlas Boarshead

- Hero Mechs
Favorite Hero - Ilya
Best Hero - Ilya

Edited by Maverick27, 23 March 2014 - 07:52 AM.

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

- Light Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Urbanmech
Best Mech-Urbanmech

- Medium Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Urbanmech
Best Mech -Urbanmech

- Heavy Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Urbanmech
Best Mech - Cataphract

- Assault Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Urbanmech
Best Mech - Urbanmech

- Hero Mechs
Favorite Hero - Urbanmech
Best Hero - Urbanmech

[CheeseThief]

Mwhighlander, Just because I liked your post doesn't mean I'm not ashamed at your lack of commitment to heavy mechs.

Edited by CheeseThief, 23 March 2014 - 06:13 PM.

[Bishop Steiner]

CheeseThief, on 23 March 2014 - 05:26 PM, said:

Just because I liked your post doesn't mean I'm not ashamed at your lack of commitment to heavy mechs.

fat mechs and social generals, the things that are wrong with the LCAF. Embrace the Urbie (since they make up like 90% of the CCAF combat units).

Edited by Bishop Steiner, 23 March 2014 - 06:06 PM.

[CheeseThief]

There be urbanmechs in them there commonalities. See if you can do a better job of digging them out than old man Hanse.

[Bishop Steiner]

CheeseThief, on 23 March 2014 - 06:26 PM, said:

There be urbanmechs in them there commonalities. See if you can do a better job of digging them out than old man Hanse.

Hanse seemed to pick you out just fine. Can't help it if his squabbling brats and a fake Marik combined to screw up all of the Fox's hard work.

[CheeseThief]

I dunno, it takes something special to turn that militaristic junta hoard backed up by all that ill gotten lyrian money, from the most effective fighting force since the Star League into something that could barely hop across the boarder to loot an archeological dig site.

[FupDup]

LIGHTS
Favorite: Cougar or Puma, hard to decide
Best: I suck at all of them (only own Ravens, Locusts, and 1 Jenner variant), although I used to be okay with a Raven (now I'm trash with them, though, due to not using lights for an extremely loooooooong time).

MEDIUMS
Favorite: Uziel (runner up Bushwacker, third place Crab)
Best: Hard to determine between Shad and Griffin

HEAVIES
Favorite: Black Knight (David White's artwork only), runner up Loki
Best: I don't spend much time in heavies so it's hard to determine. I've had good times with my Cat K2 although my Thuds are a heckuvalot more durable.

ASSAULTS
Favorite: Hellstar
Best: Victor

HEROES
Favorite: Eh, I can't really decide.
Best: The only one I own is the Dragon Slayer, unless we can count the Phoenix variants (in which case, SHD-2H(P)).

Edited by FupDup, 23 March 2014 - 08:50 PM.

[Amsro]

Great thread, some interesting choices!

Light
Favorite - Spider
Best - Firestarter
Medium
Favorite - Trebuchet
Best - Griffin
Heavy
Favorite - Catapult
Best - Cataphract
Assault
Favorite - Highlander
Best - Highlander
Hero Mech
Favorite - Heavy Metal
Best - Heavy Metal

I tend to play a mech once and then switch it up, but a couple of my mechs get thrown into rotation more then others. Of those, Heavy Metal, gets the most play time of any mech. It's been an absolute beast since inception, almost a year ago!

[Eximar]

- Light Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Locust
Best Mech - JR-7F Jenner

- Medium Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Hunchback
Best Mech - SHD-2D2 ShadowHawk

- Heavy Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Thunderbolt
Best Mech - CTF-IM Ilya Muromets

- Assault Mechs
Favorite Chassis - Awesome
Best Mech - VTR-9B Victor

- Hero Mechs
Favorite Hero - Boars Head
Best Hero - CTF-IM Ilya Muromets