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[Nicodemus Rosse]

Has anybody else noticed the interesting combination of weapon cooldown quirks on the Cougar yet?

COU-Prime CT: Cooldown -5%
COU-Prime S8: Missile Cooldown -10%

Ok so far, for a net bonus of 5% all weapons, 10% missiles. Great. Now...

COU-C CT: Cooldown -5%
COU-C LT: Ballistic Cooldown +5%
COU-C S8: Ballistic Cooldown -5%

Wait, what? So the set of 8 bonus only exists to counter the LT penalty...ok?

COU-D CT: Cooldown -5%
COU-D S8: Energy Cooldown -15%

Net 20% bonus on energy cooldown, 5% on everything else. Sweet.

COU-E CT: Cooldown -5%
COU-E S8: Cooldown -10%

Flat 15% faster cooldown on everything. *nods*

COU-H CT: Cooldown -5%
COU-H S8: Cooldown +5%

I...whatnow? So if you break the set on the COU-H you get a bonus 5% cooldown you didn't have before, but you lose the -25% UAC jam chance and -10% energy heat quirks.

COU-BA CT: Cooldown -5%
COU-BA S8: Missile Cooldown -10%

Okay, same as the Prime. Fine.

...

What's up with the C and the H variants? I literally can't follow the logic of this. There must be a reason, but can someone lay it out for me?

The C LT gives +10 armor to the LA, so maybe that penalty is just there to discourage players from making left shield arm builds with the D or BA? But the CT cooldown neutralizes it anyway on every variant, so...wtf?

On the H, did they just decide that the -25% UAC jam chance and -10% energy heat quirks from the set of eight were so powerful they needed a soft nerf and so they neutralized the standard CT cooldown bonus? Dropping both the CT bonus and S8 penalty seems more reasonable but maybe I'm missing something.

Any ideas?

[El Bandito]

Dont have the Cougar but are you sure some of those quirks are not set of 8 quirks?

[Nicodemus Rosse]

El Bandito, on 18 July 2017 - 09:48 PM, said:

Dont have the Cougar but are you sure some of those quirks are not set of 8 quirks?

Any of the ones I listed as "S8" above (instead of CT/LT/etc.) are set of 8 quirks. My apologies if that wasn't clear.

Edited by Nicodemus Rosse, 18 July 2017 - 10:32 PM.

[Jay Leon Hart]

Well, that is rather odd, even for PGI