Lukoi Banacek, on 27 February 2016 - 03:27 PM, said:
As others have noted, it's not a side-grade, it's an overall buff.
They just reduced quirks on IS, probably should let that play out before another wide-sweeping swath of changes universally to Clan weapons. Game is much closer in balance right now....what "problem" exists here that needs fixing?
The problem is that it still takes an ISLL to compete with a Clan ERML because IS ML are terrible. If they had left IS ML keep their sometimes 350-365 meter-enabling quirks, it would be a lot more even since the two would have roughly equivalent max-ranges and the improved DPS and DPH on the ISML compensates for the better raw damage on the C-ERML.
If it weren't for these light-weight weapons being mediocre against the competition, we could leave off the heat-gen quirks since it would now be not-terrible to bring said lighter weapons and more heat-sinks to cool them.
But the solution posed in this thread is not the right way to solve that shortcoming.