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[Champion of Khorne Lord of Blood]

Since I've been working to elite my Black Knights I've been looking into energy builds.

The Average thing I see is the Alpha laser vomit thing where you see how many alphas you can get off before overheating and if you can CT core an assault or whatever. That works, it works well, but it gets to be a bit boring at times and it does have the glaring issue with overheating and usually range issues if you aren't clan.

At this point I kept noticing ghost heat stopping me from using many large lasers because I couldn't alpha with them without having ghost heat kick in. With a DPS energy build however you can slap on as many LLs as you want. I tried out a match in a Black Knight barely through basic with 2 ERLLs and 2 LPLs set to chain fire with the ERLLs on group 1 and the LPLs on group 2.

With a setup like that you can fire without firing all at once and usually always have a laser at the ready or almost ready. You can suppress enemies with your beams or deal heavy damage to anyone who stands against it. If you need to ramp up the damage you can rapidly click through your chain fire to get your alpha's worth of damage usually without triggering ghost heat but with a split second longer duration. In battle this still means if you were trying to core someone's back you would have still done it.

Black Knight isn't the best mech at doing this by far. You can also do it on a Boar's Head atlas, Atlas RS, Battlemaster, Dire Wolf, Ebon Jaguar, honestly any mech with 4 or more energy hardpoints and the weight to hold at least 4 large lasers and some heat sinks. Medium and Light mechs can also do it but usually with only 2 or 3 lasers meaning you won't always have a beam at the ready and usually won't even be triggering ghost heat anyway.

An 8 LL Dire doesn't even have much problem with lights as long as you can track them with a laser, much easier than hitting them with ballistics, and the suppression factor is about as good as hexaAC2 while having more DPS (especially after accounting for accuracy and jamming).

With ERLLs you can out range most of the alpha builds and usually end up taking them out without worrying about their heavy medium laser damage, all you need to do is keep the crosshair on them and your damage is done. You also will be putting out constant damage, which can be very worrying for an enemy playing against you while they will only be pumping out their damage every few seconds, probably an alpha per 5 seconds if they are Clan or 3 if they are IS giving you some free time between their shots.

If you guys want to start counting the laser alpha meta then get to doing it.

[Otto Cannon]

Dat facetime tho.

[Vxheous]

Otto Cannon, on 26 September 2015 - 12:51 AM, said:

Dat facetime tho.

+1, meanwhile, that target that you are spreading random damage all over will one alpha your torso to red, before ducking back behind cover