Vxheous, on 12 January 2020 - 03:46 PM, said:
Edit: I forgot about ERLL on the Catapult Jester, and one of the Champions
There are way more IS 'Mechs capable of solid ERLL trading than Clan 'Mechs.
BJ-1DC has high mounts and a 15% duration reduction quirk and a 10% range quirk. BJ-3 trades the duration for dissipation, making it viable to alpha-strike with four and not totally wreck your DPS. 'Mechs like the Thud 9SE and Dragon 1C have stupid high mounts with high rates of fire and can still be a major pain in the *** in FP. The RFL-3N has range, velocity, and cooldown quirks and can run 3ERLL and a Gauss and dump 42 into anything that isn't herky jerky at ~800 meters away with relative ease.
Honestly, I really don't like playing ERLL trade with Clans because it's so easy to just eat return-fire with the longer duration, generally worse mounts, and lack of extra armor bonuses to mitigate; I'd rather play ERPPCs. I do think the Clans getting ghost when firing 3 cERLL is not a big deal because the boats like the MAD-IIC can fire 3+2 and still run colder than any Battlemaster doing the same, let alone a Battlemaster firing 3+3 (which is quite spicy after the DHS changes), but the mounts on the Clan 'Mechs with that boating capacity are so much worse that it evens out. If there was a BLR-IIC, then we'd have a real problem, but we don't.