Khobai, on 22 June 2014 - 02:44 AM, said:
What are you talking about? Its all proportional.
15% longer cooldown means 15% less DPS regardless of whether the weapon fires once per second or once every five seconds. The fact a weapon has a shorter or longer cooldown is irrelevant because the DPS loss is the same either way: its a 15% loss of dps.
And 15% less DPS is hardly "nothing".
Nope. If a PPC fires 15% slower its suffering the same dps loss as an AC2 that fires 15% slower. Both are doing 15% less DPS. Long cooldown weapons do not suffer anymore than short cooldown weapons.
Also if you slow down a PPC you can still can torso twist away from the target in between shots. But slowing down a UAC5 still doesnt slow it down enough to allow you to torso twist away in between firings. Thats one reason why weapons with faster cooldowns have always been at an inherent disadvantage (they also tend to spread damage around more).
15% of a very low base number, is very little to no change at all.
The AC2 is still a very fast firing weapon, despite the 2 RoF nerfs its gotten, to the point where its hardly noticeable. I still miss the .5 sec it had, and its .8 now is somewhat more noticeable in terms of its RoF, but overall its still a fast firing gun. Another 15% on top of that would only tack on, at most, another .1 sec which wouldn't be a noticeable change. The AC5 is 1.66, 15% would only put it up by another .4 at the most, a change yes, one that is a little significant but easily adjustable to.
The way you are toting that 15% around, is like saying it will change things from 1sec firing to 4 seconds, its not that big of a change to even warrant putting it in. There are many other ways to change the DW, one includes leaving the damn mech ALONE. Hell the 15% that the DW prime arms have do help the PPC out, WHICH IS AN ALPHA weapon and NOT A DPS one, so it helps that gun, and the mech it is on. Different weapons do benefit from CD increases, like PPC's and even CERLL to give the mech more time to dissipate heat.
Also both mechs can be torso twisting away during CD's, people do that even now with PPC/Gauss setups due to the 4sec CD since they are alpha weapons and are NOT dps ones.
TL;DR The smaller the number, the less of an impact % based "nerfs" deal to the weapon in question.