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[Artillery Witch Viridia]

Title says it all. All targeting computers are missing the Beam range stat. If this is intentional which I really hope not, they should remove All velocity perks for all weapons. Ballistics Have Superior range anyway, PPC/Meta are good enough. The only thing this was good for was a token range increase to bring up optimal range of lasers.
For the long range dmg trading game. Er-large for inner sphere and clan should have the same as clan optimal range. if this change is intentional I will probably just go back to pairs of ppcs and meta as the only thing allowing the ERLL to be competitive in the range dmg trading game was being out far enough to dodge some shots. which required a 6 or 7 ton piece of equipment to bring beam range close to Erppc Values. Inner sphere Erppc dmg should be the same as clan even.
To be honest most of the New tech looking at Heavy ppc and Heavy large lasers are hot garbage. Astounding actually. Even if you had hardpoint limitations nobody would make the tonnage crit investment toward these weapons.
The Only thing making ERLL usable for anything other that a bit of poke dmg was Targeting computer range and moderately inferior IS mech perks (it would be relatively fine if they even stacked as is.)

Laser weapons in general are mainly used for Light/medium mechs who dont have podspace to carry anything else. To everyone else it's just filler for ballistics. You throw on a couple heavy ACs or cool firing ballistics to build around then fire your backup lasers to fill up your heat bar when you want to. Commitment into high tonnage lasers requires pretty much building a mech around using up all your free tonnage and slots on heat sinks (is should get true doubles about now or equalize them for the 3 slot investment). Not to mention all the mechs with only or predominant laser hardpoints lacking ballistics get shafted. People can cry laser vomit all they want but why should beam weapons be relegated to only SRM brawler support or Filler for Ballistics. Nobody is going to want to stare down at Rac5s or Uacs when you are well within their optimal range. No amount of Beam duration reductions are going to make Er-Large competitive and it's not like you can buff the dmg to take over the roles of LL and LPL. Both faction Large pulse lasers should just get their 1 dmg back. I look at clan ones right now as inferior to ERLL because they Only do like 1 more dmg have less range and weigh 2 tons 1 slot more. If ERLL gets nerfed they are going to be worse than PPCS in every regard and not be pinpoint.