Sniper09121986, on 06 March 2020 - 02:36 PM, said:
AC/20 cool-down is 4 seconds, same as both Clan 20 guns. Black Knight does 70 kph with LFE - and more armour. IS medium lasers have 0.90 burn to 1.25 for CERML, and LPL have 0.67 to 1.55 - almost a second of difference.
Somebody desperately needs to get off their high horse.
The Black Knight is a good mech and a lot of fun, but if it was so OP people would run it far more in comp. You should keep in mind a few things.
1) Your build isn't even right. Large Lasers are generally better than LPLs for IS, so it's 3LL + however many ERMLs you can fit. You can go 78kph with an XL (which means insta-death if you lose a torso), or about 70 with an LFE.
2) Sure the Black Knight has more armor than the Hellbringer, but it should anyway. It's a 75 ton mech compared to a 65 tonner. Add in that the Black Knight has to expose FAR more of the mech and the survival quirks are perfectly fine.
3) The Hellbringer is still plenty effective and can peak a Black Knight to death by abusing its high mounts.
Who dunked on you so hard with the Black Knight to upset you so? I, admittedly, run it a lot in QP, but I don't see a ton of others in it. It has plenty of drawbacks in its own right, if it were to be nerfed it'd really hurt it's viability.
EDIT:
Ugh, Ash beat me to it. See his post. Also, you could technically fit 2HLL and 6ERML on the HBR, but that's getting mighty toasty at that point.
And he is definitely correct about just eating Ghost heat on 4xLRM20. I did that on Alpine against EON. Wasn't a problem at all particularly since I had a coolshot.
Edited by Brauer, 06 March 2020 - 02:47 PM.