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[NextGame]

I use 2 erppcs on the resistance version. I would say that its playable other than I personally dislike all weapons on one arm, plus sub150kph speed

[MechWarrior5152251]

Spider has ecm so it will always be a better sniper.

[MonkeyCheese]

I havent had that much time to play or grind my panthers with work and all, but to me it is EXACTLY like the way I use to play my 4X raven way back in closed beta days when the raven first came out, ERPPC and jumpjets only this time round the panther is a somewhat smaller target that jumps better and has better quirks.

The non resistance ones tho I aint really liking so far as they just dont feel unique at all, 4 energy and one missile is meh to me and the 3 large laser thing is just a fun derp mech but not hardcore useful or anything.

[xengk]

I am primary a medium mech pilot, and have sold off all my light mechs except the jenner.
But the Panther simply clicks with my play style and I have been having fun in them.

My PNT-10K is armed with an ERPPC for long range hit, and a MPL and ASRM4 for close range and heat management.

The PNT-8Z is a range supported with 2x LL and 2x LRM5, with the missile cooldown quirk you can almost chainspam those LRM5s.

PNT-9R as an odd ball brawler/harasser with 4x ML and SRM6.

[MeiSooHaityu]

xengk, on 25 February 2015 - 02:57 AM, said:

I am primary a medium mech pilot...
...the Panther simply clicks with my play style and I have been having fun in them.

I've noticed that too. One match I forgot I was in a light and stood still...disasterous lol.

It is why I call my Panthers Mini-Vindicators.

[Steinar Bergstol]

The Panther is the most fun I've had piloting a light mech in MWO. I love it. It just _feels_ right.

[xengk]

MeiSooHaityu, on 25 February 2015 - 03:01 AM, said:

I've noticed that too. One match I forgot I was in a light and stood still...disasterous lol.

It is why I call my Panthers Mini-Vindicators.

Happen to me just last night.
Was happily poking an Orion in swamp, forgot about my six and get 1hitKO'd.

[Bishop Steiner]

Oddly, the 10K with erppc and 2xSRM4 is the only one I really am enjoying so far.

MeiSooHaityu, on 25 February 2015 - 03:01 AM, said:

I've noticed that too. One match I forgot I was in a light and stood still...disasterous lol.

It is why I call my Panthers Mini-Vindicators.

That's exactly how I treat mine.... maybe that is why it kinda works for me.

I still suck in it, but I tend to suck less than in other Lights, beside my Firestarters, which of course, are absolutely not broken at all......

[0bsidion]

I finally got my first kill with my 10K last night after trying my new 2x ERPPC build. Lucky for me I got Planet Acid Rain, one of the hotter planets, so I spent a lot of time overheating and shutting down. Honestly I don't know how I survived as long as I did, I spent nearly as much time standing stock still and shut down as I did running around and fighting.

I know, I should have managed my heat better, but this whole not being able to kill anything was really getting me down so I kept taking crazy risks. I guess my team was being quite distracting because if I played like I did that game in pretty much any other match I wouldn't have made it through the first 4 minutes. But my crazy gambles paid off, I double tapped this poor Catapult, and finished it off, overheated for the last time, and finally died horribly to enemy fire. Now my KD is only something like 1/15 instead of 0/14.

[MeiSooHaityu]

Bishop Steiner, on 25 February 2015 - 06:42 AM, said:

Oddly, the 10K with erppc and 2xSRM4 is the only one I really am enjoying so far.

I ran that for a while in my 10K. Its a great build. I went to an SR6 for heat reasons, but plan to go back to 2 SRM4s once I achieve 2x basics.

I do enjoy my 9R equally when running laser vomit. I run 1 LPLaser, 2 MLasrers and I think an SRM4.

I had ditched the SRM4 for a SRM2 and 1/2 ton ammo before and ran a 3rd MLaser, but it is a bit too hot. Again, I may go back to that once that chassis hits 2x basics.