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[Kyle Polulak]

Greetings!

Please tell us your thoughts on the Clan Heat Sink and Double Heat Sinks

[Antagonist]

There are Clan SHS in the game? o_O

I feel a slight increase to heat dissipation wouldn't be unwarranted...maybe push C-DHS to 1.6 or so...

[LordKnightFandragon]

Antagonist, on 15 June 2014 - 03:53 PM, said:

There are Clan SHS in the game? o_O

I feel a slight increase to heat dissipation wouldn't be unwarranted...maybe push C-DHS to 1.6 or so...

whats current heat dissipation on Clan DHS? Same 1.4 as IS? Then perhaps they could use a minor buff to 1.5. Just to give them a tiny little bonus over IS DHS. Let Clans have some superiority, since IS seem to have the FLD bonus.

[GreyGriffin]

A minor buff to clan off-engine heat sink dissipation rates might really help tamp back some of the heat balancing issues with some of the weapons.

[Monky]

I feel clan DHS are in the right spot honestly.

[SpiralFace]

Antagonist, on 15 June 2014 - 03:53 PM, said:

There are Clan SHS in the game? o_O

I feel a slight increase to heat dissipation wouldn't be unwarranted...maybe push C-DHS to 1.6 or so...

I'm inclined to agree with this not just for clans but for IS as well.

This should help laser based builds out a bit more and possibly make them more enticing then the AC metta, which has been addressed recently with the changes to their RoF which puts a hard cap on their damage output compared to when the Heatsink change made its way into the game.

Laser builds are unwieldy for IS and are pretty much ignored because external DHS don't really do much for them.

With clans, It makes a ton of cannon builds completely non-viable because of how they are not able to utilize their weapons.

I get that that might be part of the balance, but to me, this is something that helps steer the metta away from the "ballistics are king" and steer it back to better balance between lasers and ballistics on BOTH sides of the tech.