Mizeur, on 28 September 2014 - 10:07 AM, said:
SRM Brawler updated for post-ERML nerf.
Why are you keeping stock hardpoints?
You realize that 10% less armor in your head is only 2 points, right?
2xERPPC is too hot on this mech. The mech is better suited to larger alphas and higher DPS than playing the pinpoint game. Unless you're comfortable with Gauss.
I thought that negative quirk on the head applied the armor debuff to the entire 'mech?
As it is I've been exploring my options again. I think the LPL is much more suited to the fast, flyby, hit and run nature of this 'mech than the CERLL (1.6 face time) and definitely helps kill lights faster but I can't help but sometimes consider going back to the 2 x CERLL/3 x CERML configuration. If I slap on a different RT to prime I can get another energy hardpoint but to add that laser means removing yet another heatsink. I wonder just "how hot" 2 x CLPL/3 x CERML would be.
Mostly I'm just looking at a way to finish people off better. I have a good W/L in my Stormcrow prime but terrible K/D ratio. Usually what I try to do is "end stalemates", pick at the sides and rear of the enemy deathball in an attempt to break it up. Often times they do break it up completely to hunt me down and kill me and though I have a nice outcome on the match (breaking up enemy formation, 300-400 damage and a few assists) my K/D suffers.
I have yet to try the 2 x CERPPCs and maybe won't. I do favor "pinpoint" weapons to hitscan lasers though it seems to be a much faster way to kill people.
For example on my Timberwolf my W/L and K/D all vastly favor my 2 x CERPPC 1 x CGauss build over my 2 x CLPL 4 x CERML build that is considered the "standard" right now. Sure, the "laser vomit" gets great damage numbers but once again, I find they are inflated due to it getting spread around. I've actually had 750 damage and 0 kills before in it.
Just two PPCs though is probably not enough for 55 tons (my freakin' Adder carries the same loadout) so I guess I'll never even experiment with it and continue to run the Stormcrow as a "laser vomit" build.
Edit: I changed out my RT pod for the one with a laser hardpoint to run a third CERML again with the 2 CLPLs.
Even losing another DHS the heat is managable (1.12 according to mechlab) since my preferred play is peekabo, hit and run type play with this mech. I think I'll keep it this way. I may change out the LPL range module for the CERML range module though. That way the two weapons synergize even more.
Edited by Kain Thul, 28 September 2014 - 04:21 PM.