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[Angel of Annihilation]

I am not saying that Clan tech didn't need to be toned down but it has been toned down to ridiculous levels plus the quirks that IS mechs get, generally bring IS weapons up to parity. However, IS mechs don't have to deal with the excessively restrictive build out restrictions that Clan Omnimechs do and this is where the problem starts.

First, people seem to have forgotten that the whole reason Omnimechs got those crazy restrictions in the first place was because their weapons were so good by comparison. Then PGI nerfed the clan weapons to not be so good and quite a few of them at that point actually were worse performing that IS weapons. Remember IS AC's are pin point weapons which we all know are more effective than burst weapons. Then we have IS lasers that not only shoot faster and cooldown quicker but also are significantly cooler. IS LRMs all land in one big clump while Clan LRM's ripple fire in making them easier to dodge. Honestly the list goes on and the result is that in most cases even though IS weapons might not have as much range or damage, they are functionally better than Clan weapons. Cooler, beam duration, pin-point damage, better grouping, these are all characteristics of IS weapons. There are exceptions like the C ER ML and the C ER PPC but in most cases IS weapons are better.

Then they added quirks which removed all the other benefits of Clan tech. IS weapons are now even cooler, fire faster, match or even exceed the range advantage the Clan weapons had. Structure was quirked so that any advantage the Clans had with XL engines were removed. Agility was quirked so the fact that many Clan mechs were generally faster was also negated. However they never removed the build restrictions on Clan Omnimechs to balance things back out.

So we have now transitioned to a point where many if not most IS mechs are superior to Clan Omnimechs. Hell I see twice as many Warhammers in the game now than I do Timberwolfs and that is saying something.

In the mean time, unless your a Timberwolf, Stormcrow, Ebon Jaguar or Arctic Cheetah, your piloting a substandard Clan mech all because you can't do anything at all the optimize them to correct flaws in their designs. Hell as pointed out numerous times, the ability to swap out endo and ferro on Clan mechs would go a long way toward balancing the poor performing omnimechs but whatever they do, something needs to be done.

[Lyoto Machida]

Mcgral18, on 12 October 2016 - 08:30 PM, said:

It's only been two years


Joe Mallan was still here




But the PTS5 numbers were sickeningly powerful Clams, with good cERLLs and cERMLs, and all LPLs getting universally shat on.

I totally forgot about him somehow.

Though...his profile says he last logged on 9/10/16 so I guess he hasn't gone completely.

[cazidin]

Lyoto Machida, on 13 October 2016 - 06:18 PM, said:

I totally forgot about him somehow.

Though...his profile says he last logged on 9/10/16 so I guess he hasn't gone completely.

Who was Joe Mallan?