Aresye, on 10 April 2016 - 12:57 AM, said:
The rate of heat dissipation is actually not that important when you're talking about poke builds, such as the Black Knight and your EBJ build. You generally have all the time in the world to cool behind cover.
Take that small advantage out of the picture and the Black Knight is better in every way.
- It has structure quirks. The EBJ has none.
- It spits out 58 damage in 0.77 seconds, compared to the EBJ (which takes 1.15 seconds). More damage per tick.
- It has better hitboxes. The EBJ is pretty much a glass cannon that's all CT.
- It has 20% torso turn rate quirks. The EBJ has none.
The EBJ's only advantage over the Black Knight is hardpoint location, however it isn't as big of an advantage as people think it is as the hardpoints are ABOVE the cockpit, requiring you to expose your giant upper torso in order to see what you're shooting at.
If your opponent took a Black Knight for a 1v1, and you took that laser vomit EBJ, I can tell you exactly what would happen:
1. The Black Knight would use cover on the approach to negate your range advantage.
2. If cover was not possible, the BLK pilot can easily twist away damage and absorb a couple of your alphas as it's closing on you, thanks to torso twist speed quirks and superior hitboxes.
3. Once the BLK is in range, it will alpha 58 damage straight to your left torso where your main energy mounts are, which you cannot twist away due to having poor hitboxes, and the fact it's being done in 0.77 seconds (aka: very quick).
4. The next alpha will finish off your left torso entirely, and do an appreciable amount of damage to your CT armor in the process. Now you have a speed penalty in addition to losing some of your truedubs in the engine, and will run hotter and slower.
5. With over half your weapons gone, the BLK will allow itself to cool a bit, and then stagger fire its LPLs and MLs until you're dead, and there won't be anything you can do about it, as you have neither the weapons nor the armor to win that engagement.
You talk like the ebon jag would stay in one place as it allow the blacknight to close the gap? Why would a faster mech allow this? If the blacknight can get into range its because he is a better pilot.
If u want to say range means nothing than I think an ebon with 2xac10/spl build might be the way to go something where you can over heat the blacknight with a lot of pressure. The ebon jag is going to have to use his speed and keep the large alpha from coring one side.
Over all blacknight should win its almost an assault mech and i never said i would pick a ebon jag to fight a blacknight. I just said that was the build i have used on my ebon. I would pick a timber to fight a blacknight. I would even take a grasshopper over a blacknight. If I really had my pick I take some type of 4xac5 mech as they kill them easy. But really at this point were talking who has a better build to fight another build. Not what mech is OP.
Edited by Monkey Lover, 10 April 2016 - 11:41 AM.