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Greetings fellow mechwarriors and developers:

My favorite mech is the Blackjack, i may be biased on it but when you analyze what i'm about to write you'll see it is not so biased. Blackjacks have always been deemed to be quite weak in general, but at the hands of an expert pilot it can be deadly... on some instances. All the nerfs, quirks and adjustments are meant to balance the mechs so even if some are overpowered (as some variants should be just because they HAVE to be) the rest of the mechs have to shine in some way to be able to get around the higher powered enemy.
For example, a Direwolf vs a locust. locust will always loose in the brawl (unless the Direwolf is piloted by an inexperienced pilot) however the quirks for this locust should be such that it has a good chance to escape or do some damage in a strike and run fashion. We should not put 500% extra armor so it can survive the Direwolf's volleys until the locust rips through with a single large pulse laser. In this fashion the blackjacks where given a too powerful armor and internal quirks a few patches ago, developers soon saw it was ridiculous and lowered the armor quirks. That was fine and dandy, but now they further lowered them and i believe they should not. If developers had asked around a bit they would have received the same answer most of the time, that blackjacks are not hard to kill and the people who pilot them would say they are strong enough. Since in order to make a powerful enough blackjack to be competitive you have to place an XL engine, the blackjack need a few moderate quirk improvement. The BJ-1 is perfect DON'T touch it, The BJ-3 could use a few more points of internals for the three torsos but everything else is excellent. The BJ-1DC just needs a 5% extra AC5 cooldown so it emulates the BJ-1, it would not be overpowered because it would be limited in ammo due to being 45 tons, and thats why it need the cooldown to be an advantage. The laser quirks on it are not that important and could be done without. The BJ-1X needs a bit of adjustment in laser cooldown but otherwise perfect. I don't own an ARROW because i dont like the weapon arrangement but looking at it if the machine guns had an amazing quirk for range, it would shine but maybe a bit too much. This is for your consideration and thanks for an amazing game, otherwise we would not be able to play mechs.