Mech Builds: Save Me From Myself
#1
Posted 14 November 2017 - 05:10 PM
Case in point: I like my AWS-9M, max light engine, ERPPC, 5xMPL and heatsinks. No one expects an assault running 80ish kph and it makes the barn doors just a *teeny* bit smaller.
But sometimes I get bad ideas and I need someone to talk me down from the ledge...
AWS-8Q, 3xHPPC, max heatsinks and whatever engine I can fit... Sounds terrible, right?
...or not?
#2
Posted 14 November 2017 - 06:01 PM
Edited by Daurock, 14 November 2017 - 07:21 PM.
#3
Posted 14 November 2017 - 06:03 PM
#4
Posted 14 November 2017 - 06:06 PM
#5
Posted 14 November 2017 - 06:10 PM
I can't think of any scenario where it wouldn't be better off dropping one of those HPPCs for a pair of large lasers. Same tonnage, same slots, a bit more damage, a bit less heat (if you fire them with the PPCs and not on cooldown, you've got an answer (albeit a poor one) to enemies under 90 meters...
Still not a great use of that tonnage, though.
#6
Posted 14 November 2017 - 06:37 PM
Q, on 14 November 2017 - 05:10 PM, said:
...or not?
While 3xHPPC is nice pinpoint damage, you run the risk of facehuggers creepin' up on ya and using you for free damage because of that 90m deadzone. One example scenario on Mining using my Oxide... it was me + some enemy light + Awesome 8Q (either same build or similar): Basically just kept the Awesome within 90m ignoring him, took out the light, and just unloaded SRMs on his front CT while he was panic firing PPCs for zero damage. Low ammo at the end, but more than enough to finish the match.
Moral of the story is if you have someone violating your 90m bubble, you're pretty much screwed since they'll keep you in that deadzone and you'll never get far enough away unless they do something dumb. At which point you're basically a C-Bill pinata.
#7
Posted 14 November 2017 - 08:07 PM
N0ni, on 14 November 2017 - 06:37 PM, said:
That is why I am currently running mine like this.
#8
Posted 21 November 2017 - 09:55 AM
What about 2xHPPC and 5xSPL? (It's a sickness I know.)
#9
Posted 21 November 2017 - 12:07 PM
Q, on 14 November 2017 - 05:10 PM, said:
Nobody expects assault packing firepower of 50-65 tonner.
Pack more firepower mate.
Q, on 21 November 2017 - 09:55 AM, said:
2 hppc 2 ermeds on my 65 tons catapult k2.
this is what i would go with.
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...500f20180f06495
and if you really want ppc
well drop down to 65 tons or go with something bigger which can also fit gauss.
Edited by davoodoo, 21 November 2017 - 12:17 PM.
#10
Posted 21 November 2017 - 12:24 PM
Q, on 14 November 2017 - 05:10 PM, said:
Case in point: I like my AWS-9M, max light engine, ERPPC, 5xMPL and heatsinks. No one expects an assault running 80ish kph and it makes the barn doors just a *teeny* bit smaller.
But sometimes I get bad ideas and I need someone to talk me down from the ledge...
AWS-8Q, 3xHPPC, max heatsinks and whatever engine I can fit... Sounds terrible, right?
...or not?
Get outta here! You can get an Awesome to run 80kph!?!?!?
***runs to check it out in mech lab***
#11
Posted 21 November 2017 - 12:46 PM
Checkmate.
#12
Posted 21 November 2017 - 12:47 PM
#13
Posted 21 November 2017 - 12:52 PM
#14
Posted 21 November 2017 - 12:57 PM
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