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[Bigbacon]

meteorol, on 14 December 2014 - 09:17 AM, said:

With elo matchmaking not in place in CW, i honestly have to ask myself if guys are running troll builds or if the stuff i'm seeing are the builds they always use.

I have seen builds i could not believe anyone would actually run them

Like... a King crab with 2x er ppc, 1 ac2, AMS, 3MG and 2 artemis srm4.
Or a crab with ac20, gauss, 2ml, 1 artemis lrm 10, 1 ssrm 2.

What is going on with those guys?

Troll builds or not, I really haven't swiched up any of my build for CW and that is really because I refuse to follow the META if I can. though I feel certain weapon systems aren't really as useful now in CW as they were in normal game.

SRMs are one although when mainly on defense, longer range weapons seem better then short range spread damage. Curious is SSRM can make the scene again with the light rushes since they used to be king of killing lights. Maybe it is time to bump that damage back up on the IS SSRM2.

Edited by Bigbacon, 14 December 2014 - 09:40 AM.

[Monkey Lover]

Smoked, on 13 December 2014 - 09:44 AM, said:

Drop deck for Clanners is easy, 3 stormcrows and a timberwolf.

They will fix the hitboxes on the crow at some point and they will change over to 2 timbers

[EpicWarrior202]

Wow, I made a hot topic. I'm so proud of myself.

[RLBell]

Brody319, on 13 December 2014 - 09:34 AM, said:

Not hard enough!

You do not want to crush the IS too hard. You want to crush them hard enough to be successful, but not so hard that IS players refuse to drop against the clans. This is a game and if we are not having fun, we stop playing.

[KraftySOT]

meteorol, on 14 December 2014 - 09:17 AM, said:

With elo matchmaking not in place in CW, i honestly have to ask myself if guys are running troll builds or if the stuff i'm seeing are the builds they always use.

I have seen builds i could not believe anyone would actually run them

Like... a King crab with 2x er ppc, 1 ac2, AMS, 3MG and 2 artemis srm4.
Or a crab with ac20, gauss, 2ml, 1 artemis lrm 10, 1 ssrm 2.

What is going on with those guys?

Stupidity.

Casuals.

[generalazure]

meteorol, on 14 December 2014 - 09:17 AM, said:

I have seen builds i could not believe anyone would actually run them

Like... a King crab with 2x er ppc, 1 ac2, AMS, 3MG and 2 artemis srm4.
Or a crab with ac20, gauss, 2ml, 1 artemis lrm 10, 1 ssrm 2.

What is going on with those guys?

Sounds like someone told them they need a balanced build and they responded with a mech that sucks equally at all roles.

[Brody319]

meteorol, on 14 December 2014 - 09:17 AM, said:

With elo matchmaking not in place in CW, i honestly have to ask myself if guys are running troll builds or if the stuff i'm seeing are the builds they always use.

I have seen builds i could not believe anyone would actually run them

Like... a King crab with 2x er ppc, 1 ac2, AMS, 3MG and 2 artemis srm4.
Or a crab with ac20, gauss, 2ml, 1 artemis lrm 10, 1 ssrm 2.

What is going on with those guys?

I think they are trying to use the weapons they own and not buy any. So instead of buying another gauss, they just kept the AC20.

[Mcgral18]

Smoked, on 13 December 2014 - 09:44 AM, said:

Drop deck for Clanners is easy, 3 stormcrows and a timberwolf.

I prefer 2 TimberGods, NopeVa and a Cute Fox.

Fox may be replaced with a Viper when available; a 40 tonner with 8 JJs. I found the JJs to be useful compared to the DoomCrow.


It's shifting frequently, though.

[Astrocanis]

KraftySOT, on 14 December 2014 - 10:03 AM, said:

Stupidity.

Casuals.

Ignorance.

Experimentation.

New Mech.

[MW Waldorf Statler]

last game -Atlas with only 1 UAC 5 and one LRM 10 Launcher

[meteorol]

Holy necro

[MW Waldorf Statler]

this tread is to funny , to let it dead

[Spider00x]

Last week I encoutered a lrm 30 centurion no other weapons NO ARMOR, and a black widow with only 4 large lasers....

[UberStuka]

lol @ that build. had a guy tell us in pre game chat he was running a triple AMS Kitfox with like 10 tons of ammo and a small lazor and he was gonna be anti-lurm support.

[LordNothing]

ive been running a couple standard heat sink boats to the dismay of my team mates for the last couple days. these were mechs i bought in the current heavy sale. ive not upgraded any of them because i still have a free mech bay and want to get one more, but i have limited time to make the 8 million cbills i need.

thing is they are actually doing pretty well which i just cannot understand. 37 sinks on a tbolt with 7 medium lasers seems impossible to overheat. its even resistant to flamers and hot maps. im not denying that the thing would be slightly better with pulse lasers and dhs, but its close enough where it can pass as a fighting beast fit for fp.

Edited by LordNothing, 26 September 2016 - 04:47 AM.

[UberStuka]

LordNothing, on 26 September 2016 - 04:45 AM, said:

ive been running a couple standard heat sink boats to the dismay of my team mates for the last couple days. these were mechs i bought in the current heavy sale. ive not upgraded any of them because i still have a free mech bay and want to get one more, but i have limited time to make the 8 million cbills i need.

thing is they are actually doing pretty well which i just cannot understand. 37 sinks on a tbolt with 7 medium lasers seems impossible to overheat. its even resistant to flamers and hot maps. im not denying that the thing would be slightly better with pulse lasers and dhs, but its close enough where it can pass as a fighting beast fit for fp.

You will even get more life out of the crits you take considering each heat sink has ten health. So in theory 37 std heat sinks could add 370 more dmg that someone might have to lay on you before they kill you. Not likely but component health in the game is a thing.

[LordNothing]

UberStuka, on 26 September 2016 - 04:53 AM, said:

You will even get more life out of the crits you take considering each heat sink has ten health. So in theory 37 std heat sinks could add 370 more dmg that someone might have to lay on you before they kill you. Not likely but component health in the game is a thing.

never considered that, though i was mostly surprised that i wasnt melting my core and my mech was staying cold most of the time, even on maps like vitric forge.