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[Mr_Ripley9]

PGI,

Please turn back the banshee's quirks, because the PPC quirks on the 3m and 3e are utterly USELESS, and no one uses them. You've also pretty much ruined a majority of the decent builds for the two because of the "nerfs" when they weren't even OP. Heck, I was an amazing pilot in my 3e. I did absolutely FANTASTIC! And yet, I would still almost be killed by a Timberwolf whose pilot was as good as I was. Now? I can hardly take anyone on anymore. You've turned one of the IS's decent frontline mechs into now a silly 95 ton assault sniper. It's ridiculous.

[S204STi]

They hosed a lot of mechs, to be honest. I seriously hope they unfuck IS mechs.

[John80sk]

The PPC quirks are actually great for the 3E... kinda not so much on the others though.

[oldradagast]

While I'm not a huge fan of the sudden quirk changes, particularly after a sale on weapon modules, I have to disagree with the OP.

The Banshee 3E does very well with AC5's and PPC's. That's a lot of up-front damage with reasonably similar projectile speeds. 3 AC5's and 1 PPC is 25 points of pin-point damage, with good rate of fire from the AC5's. With a slower engine, you can pile on 2 PPC's and go for 35 pinpoint damage.

The 3M, admittedly, probably was better off with pulse laser quirks, but that mech is a mess anyway since balancing all-energy mechs is very difficult.

Of course, the real problem is that the PPC's are next to worthless without quirks, but that's a separate topic.

[Mr_Ripley9]

The only quirks the PPCs get is a +20 velocity. Not that great, imho. I think they should've stayed with the medium laser quirks for the 3E.

[John80sk]

mrripley9, on 21 February 2015 - 08:08 AM, said:

The only quirks the PPCs get is a +20 velocity. Not that great, imho. I think they should've stayed with the medium laser quirks for the 3E.

and the only thing that brought PPC's down from being top tier weapons was a velocity change... 2PPC/3AC5 was the meta banshee for a long time for a reason.