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[Soultraxx]

Hello all

When a new new mech is coming out, is it just me, or everyone that looks specifically at how many energy hard points it has and thinks?



1) “7 x energy slots AND decent quirks! I’ll have 2 Lpls and 5 Mls if you please”

or
2) “5 energy slots. Hmmmm, I wonder if I can get 5Llas in there, or maybe 4 Lpls? I’ll probably have to remove all the armour on the arms and shave the leg armour back to 50% to do it and each time I alpha I’ll probably shut down for 45 seconds, but I think it’ll work”

or
3) “2 missile, 3 ballistic, 1 energy!!! Great Scott!! Are you serious??? Im selling that one”

Sad, but it’s true. I am a product of the laser vomit era.

Perhaps I am a little too fixated on energy boats at the moment – although I am trying very hard to like SRMs

Is anyone else the same?

Perhaps you look for something else in a new mech?

Edited by Soultraxx, 01 February 2016 - 11:58 PM.

[GreyNovember]

In A Heavy?

Marauder with all energy sounds horribly boring. Same goes for an all energy TBR. No oomph.

That's what the powerfist variant is for. Pack 3LPL 2ML and call it a day.

I mean as long as I can fit something nice and big on a hardpoint starved variant for it's weight class, I can probably make it work.

Oxides are fantastic Missile lights.

MAD-3R has the 3AC5 build.

Hunchies are. Well. Hunchies.

[Moldur]

I look up what the best mechs are supposed to be, then I verify some things in mechlab maybe, then I buy them.

to be honest, the "character" of an under-performing mech does not reduce the headache of it not being that great and potentially spending millions refitting it multiple times until I get it right as opposed to a guide that says "Yeah these are the best builds, don't bother trying something else."

A thunderbolt 5SS with 1LPL + 6MPLs is not less fun than an Orion with a mixed loadout. Sue me.

That's as far as IS goes.


For Clans, I already know 3/4 of them are crap, 1/8th are ok, and 1/8th are "pgi pls nerf" so my criteria is simplified to "does it not suck?"