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[Apnu]

OK MWO, lets talk about the best Inner Sphere mechs that have a 30% c-bill bonus. What mech do you think is the best, running what build and why?

Excluding the Clans because we all already know who the best are: Stormcrow, Timberwolf, Direwolf in order of weight.

That means any hero, Founders, Phoenix, Loyalty, and Resistance mechs.

For me its the HBK-4G(F). AC20, 3xML, STD engine. It was pretty awesome before the quirkining, now its brutal. I have a pal who swears by the YLW for the same work, but I don't own a YLW and find it hard to justify spending MC on it when I've got the HBK-4G(F).

Runners up: Firebrand and CN9-AH(L)

[Rhaythe]

Yen Lo Wang, for me, and it's a damn fine clan killer. A bit of a better tank than the HBK with some extra zombie pew pew.

Grid Iron comes in next on my list of oft-piloted heroes, with an honorable mention to my Pirate's Bane for effort.

[Mirumoto Izanami]

I have a soft spot for the Cent- AH. It's superb and face crushing for the 5 minutes of the fight it has ammo.

The Misery combines the blended perfection of the Stalker chassis with a ballistic hardpoint. So toss up between those two for me.

[DaZur]

3 x UAC/5 Ilya hands down...

[jackswift]

I going to have to agree with your pal there and I own a HBK-4G. It's not quite the same kind of crazy. Slap a XL 300 in there and you get the fastest AC 20 slinger out there. Plus it gets over 230 degrees/sec of torso twist speed which plays to the centurions strength of the shield arm. With about 6 tons of ammo in there I am never afraid of taking shots,

THe next best c-bill earner for me would be my Blue Devil, the TDK. Almost always on par with the YLW.

Edit: Just compared my twist speeds of the two and the YLW is short of the TDK's twist speed by only 33 deg/sec. That's faster than most any comparable mech out there. Of course with a +56.3% twist rate quirk, you can imagine why.

Edited by jackswift, 25 March 2015 - 07:55 AM.

[Metus regem]

CN9-YLW, the Wang to everyone, even in the stock configuration it's a tough little beast.

Also the LCT-PB, the Pirate's Bane; If any mech could be considered P2W, it's this little beast, yes it's a Locusts, that comes stock with Endo, DHS, 190XL and ECM, nothing makes them work harder to take you out, then this thing. pack in a UAV and a Strike of some kind, and laugh all the way to the bank. since you've already scouted out the Enemy, killed their ECM with the UAV, and landed a strike on them, before they know what hit them.

[Mirumoto Izanami]

jackswift, on 25 March 2015 - 07:47 AM, said:

I going to have to agree with your pal there and I own a HBK-4G. It's not quite the same kind of crazy. Slap a XL 300 in there and you get the fastest AC 20 slinger out there.

Not possible.

[Rhaythe]

Mirumoto Izanami, on 25 March 2015 - 07:48 AM, said:

Not possible.

I shudder when thinking of XL-4Gs. Scary.

[The Ratfink]

Yen Lo Wang just so much fun and effective!

Edited by The Ratfink, 25 March 2015 - 07:51 AM.

[N a p e s]

Mirumoto Izanami, on 25 March 2015 - 07:48 AM, said:

Not possible.

I believe he was talking about the YLW. Also had to read his post twice...

The quartet of CN9-AH, YLW, HBK-4G and Grid Iron are hard to beat in terms of money maker mechs for me. They're all variations of one another in someway shifting focus from speed to tankiness or alpha potential to more DPS orientated damage, but they all work really well.

Edit: I put the 4G in there but mine isn't the founder's version... oh, how I wish it was.

Edited by PowerOfNapes, 25 March 2015 - 08:01 AM.

[Apnu]

Mirumoto Izanami, on 25 March 2015 - 07:48 AM, said:

Not possible.

I think he's talking about the YLW. No IS mech can have a XL and a AC20 in the torso.

[Mirumoto Izanami]

Apnu, on 25 March 2015 - 07:59 AM, said:

I think he's talking about the YLW. No IS mech can have a XL and a AC20 in the torso.

looking at his addendum, id have to concur with this assessment.

[ThirtyOughtSix]

I think I would love the llya but the firebrand is friggin nice. I guess it depends on your play style. For a fun hero pirates bane is high on list. Raw firepower llya, sniper firebrand....this can be debated.

[jackswift]

Ya I was talking YLW.

[Apnu]

Hyper99, on 25 March 2015 - 08:07 AM, said:

I think I would love the llya but the firebrand is friggin nice. I guess it depends on your play style. For a fun hero pirates bane is high on list. Raw firepower llya, sniper firebrand....this can be debated.

By all means debate it!

Ilya or FB... which one and why?

[Wrathful Scythe]

I like my Ilya more than my Firebrand.
The Firebrand is a damn good sniper with its high mounted weapons. The Ilya can dps almost anything in the ground while retaining a good speed. Both suffer from XL and both are easy to kill. I am more of a firepower guy so I take what I can to make my enemys bleed. 3 times the UAC/5 does a good job in that regard.

The Ilya might be my most played mech after the Catapult K2.

[ThirtyOughtSix]

Apnu, on 25 March 2015 - 08:11 AM, said:

By all means debate it!

Ilya or FB... which one and why?

I'll take the FB...but haven't played the llya. M when I pilot the firebrand if I get into good position the thing is a streight up killer.

[SnagaDance]

Either my dual AC/20 ERLL Loyalty King Crab or my 4 SRM6, AC/20, 4ML Loyalty Atlas, those two just wreck face at short distance.

[Nightmare1]

I like my YLW the most, probably. However, the HBK-GI and SHD-2H(P) are also jam up Mechs.

[Zodal]

Currently using the following build with Firebrand:
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...0d50fd0cc773f13

I would love to reccomend it but jagers are incredibly fragile with xl. If you like Sniping and support fire, their arm hardpoints can't be beat. The underslung arms of other mechs don't give you the clearance you need to fire at any position.