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[Kareekoe]

Almost done with 91/91 on the Trebuchet TBT-7M, been mucking about with lrm 30 boat + narc memes, had ups and downs, rage and happiness, love and hate, it definitely requires some skill and enemy team composition luck.

Had some really good games but mostly only when the enemies had little to no AMS with some good narc aim and calling out narc'd targets on voice coms, but for the most part low to almost no damage games with skill rating lose or no change and horrible match scores.

Overall not a very good mech, this thing absolutely rekt pilot skill rating, taking Karee down from 3 to 4 (and likely even lower 4's by time she's done with it.)

So she's looking for a new medium mech or multiple new mediums mechs to play to make up for the experience of playing that mechanized force of self inflicted psychic damage~

Here's the list of mediums she has currently:
Arctic Wolf:
ACW-1

Black Lanner:
BLK-A

Blackjack:
BJ-2(L)

Cicada:
CDA-2A(C)
CDA-3F(L)

Griffin:
GRF-2N

Nova:
NVA-Prime
NVA-D

Shadow Cat:
SHC-B

Trebuchet:
TBT-7M

If anyone has suggestions that aren't already on the list of owned mechs, please share them, and don't be afraid to share meme/fun mechs too, even if they're a little bad, Karee very much is a cultured meme mech loving degenerate, so gimme gimme gimme~!

Edited by Kareekoe, 20 August 2025 - 08:42 PM.

[epikt]

If you're ready to forgive the Trebuchet, may I introduce you the TBT-5J ?
Another great laser-vomit is the BlackJack-1X.
For good in-your-face dakka, meet the Hunchback-IIC.
Now for my fav, because gotta go fast, the Vulcan-5S. Or if you want a MASC jumpy medium with a little more build variety, try the Phoenix Hawk-7S.
Another good overall mech with great hardpoints and multiple of good builds, the Shadow Hawk-2K.
So far I've kept it F2P friendly, but since you'll be able to claim a medium hero during the lootbag summer fest, get a Rival, the king of the medium class.

(builds are what I had save on mechDB and they might not be the most refined, but it gives you the idea)

edit: among the one you already got, the Black Lanner and Shadow Cat are at the top of the meta.

Edited by epikt, 20 August 2025 - 11:16 PM.

[w0qj]

Shadow Cat with 2xERPPC is quite powerful; I've seen these as the last of the opposing (losing) team member to survive also!

Mobile, nimble, MASC, JJ, and with ECM if desired!

The Legendary Shadow Cat Noble is also pretty good too!

[Kareekoe]

w0qj, on 20 August 2025 - 11:52 PM, said:

Shadow Cat with 2xERPPC is quite powerful; I've seen these as the last of the opposing (losing) team member to survive also!

Mobile, nimble, MASC, JJ, and with ECM if desired!

The Legendary Shadow Cat Noble is also pretty good too!

Karee has the Shadowcat you're thinking of, it's really nice, surprisingly there's only two variants that have JJ + MASC + ECM.
SHC-B is the best variant of the two.
SHC-Prime(C) variant is not only bad but it can only be bought with MC and it has those old day mech +2.5% quirks that give almost nothing.

Shadow Cat Noble seems like a good meme, might actually get that at some point.

Edited by Kareekoe, Yesterday, 03:42 PM.

[epikt]

Kareekoe, on 21 August 2025 - 12:58 AM, said:

Karee has the Shadowcat you're thinking of, it's really nice, surprisingly there's only two variants that have JJ + MASC + ECM.
SHC-B is the best variant of the two.

I'm reading between the lines here, but do you know that on omnimechs you can change the pods (thus the hardpoints) of your mech?
On the Shadow Cat, the ECM can be mounted on the -B left torso, but that omnipod can be equiped on every other variants if your build requires to mix and match.
There are "set of eight" bonus if you keep the stock omnipod configuration, but often modifying it is much stronger.

Kareekoe, on 21 August 2025 - 12:58 AM, said:

SHC-Prime(C) variant is not only bad but it can only be bought with MC and it has those old day mech +2.5% quirks that give almost nothing.

Except maybe if you're billionnaire in MCs, NEVER buy champion mechs. Heros give a better cbill bonus and have unique hardpoints, while the (C) are just glorified standard variants.

[VeeOt Dragon]

with the event you could pick up a hero mech as well.

if you like the LRM play the Kintaro- Golden Boy makes an excellent one

KTO-GB (4 LRM-5, 1 LRM-10 (6 1/2t ammo), 3 MLs, 1 AMS (1/2t ammo) running an XL-280 with 3 DHS and Endo)

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the Grid Iron can be a scary mech if you kit it with an SB guass (the Guass rifle fires at an insane rate given the mech's lovely 30% guass cooldown and 20% general cooldown quirks

HBK-GI (1 S.B. Guass (3 1/2t ammo, 3 MLs, 1 AMS (1/2t ammo) running an LE-250, with Endo and LFF)

A52:20h0|Lg|PPpX0|g@|OP|OP|OPqX0|f?|aOrP0|F@sP0|F@tX0uX0vB0|F@w808080

Edited by VeeOt Dragon, Yesterday, 09:20 AM.

[kapusta11]

Perhaps the only mech I still do well in is https://mwo.nav-alph...2ee9baa5_BSW-HR

Edit: should be UAC20

Edited by kapusta11, Yesterday, 10:37 AM.

[Kareekoe]

epikt, on 20 August 2025 - 11:03 PM, said:

If you're ready to forgive the Trebuchet, may I introduce you the TBT-5J ?
Another great laser-vomit is the BlackJack-1X.
For good in-your-face dakka, meet the Hunchback-IIC.
Now for my fav, because gotta go fast, the Vulcan-5S. Or if you want a MASC jumpy medium with a little more build variety, try the Phoenix Hawk-7S.
Another good overall mech with great hardpoints and multiple of good builds, the Shadow Hawk-2K.
So far I've kept it F2P friendly, but since you'll be able to claim a medium hero during the lootbag summer fest, get a Rival, the king of the medium class.

(builds are what I had save on mechDB and they might not be the most refined, but it gives you the idea)

edit: among the one you already got, the Black Lanner and Shadow Cat are at the top of the meta.

Ooo, that Trebuchet (TBT-5J) looks wonderful, can't go wrong with laser vomit that actually has good quirks, gonna get that for sure, can already feel it, this should be leagues better than the TBT-7M LRM 30 + Narc she was running,

Thanks a bunch for sharing these, gonna be getting all those mechs and trying them out.

Edited by Kareekoe, Yesterday, 03:41 PM.

[Kareekoe]

epikt, on 21 August 2025 - 05:45 AM, said:

I'm reading between the lines here, but do you know that on omnimechs you can change the pods (thus the hardpoints) of your mech?
On the Shadow Cat, the ECM can be mounted on the -B left torso, but that omnipod can be equiped on every other variants if your build requires to mix and match.
There are "set of eight" bonus if you keep the stock omnipod configuration, but often modifying it is much stronger.

That's true, but SHC-B's set of 8 is just too good to change, however giving SHC-B ECM omnipod to other Shadow Cats would certainly be a great upgrade if mix and matching.
If ever getting other Shadow Cat variants, that's probably what Karee will do, something about having all three (MASC, JJ, ECM) just feels really good and nice to play.

Edited by Kareekoe, Yesterday, 03:41 PM.

[Kareekoe]

VeeOt Dragon, on 21 August 2025 - 09:19 AM, said:

with the event you could pick up a hero mech as well.

if you like the LRM play the Kintaro- Golden Boy makes an excellent one

KTO-GB (4 LRM-5, 1 LRM-10 (6 1/2t ammo), 3 MLs, 1 AMS (1/2t ammo) running an XL-280 with 3 DHS and Endo)

AM182001|2@|2@|i^|Jdp\0|i^|3@|[Oq\0|i^|f?|aO|jO|i^rT0|Y?|2@|2@sT0|Y?|Y?tS0|[O|[OuS0|[O|[OvB0|[Ow808080

the Grid Iron can be a scary mech if you kit it with an SB guass (the Guass rifle fires at an insane rate given the mech's lovely 30% guass cooldown and 20% general cooldown quirks

HBK-GI (1 S.B. Guass (3 1/2t ammo, 3 MLs, 1 AMS (1/2t ammo) running an LE-250, with Endo and LFF)

A52:20h0|Lg|PPpX0|g@|OP|OP|OPqX0|f?|aOrP0|F@sP0|F@tX0uX0vB0|F@w808080

Wowie, those are some good quirked mechs, will certainly have to keep those in mind and sight for later, thanks for sharing these~<3

[epikt]

Kareekoe, on 21 August 2025 - 03:41 PM, said:

That's true, but SHC-B's set of 8 is just too good to change, however giving SHC-B ECM omnipod to other Shadow Cats would certainly be a great upgrade if mix and matching.

I just wanted to make sure you knew about the omnipods system

About Shadow Cats, don't be afraid to put that ECM aside. Lots of the best SHC builds don't mount ECM.

[Kareekoe]

kapusta11, on 21 August 2025 - 10:33 AM, said:

Perhaps the only mech I still do well in is https://mwo.nav-alph...2ee9baa5_BSW-HR

Edit: should be UAC20

That one looks nice too, like the armor quirks and resistance to losing components the moment armor gets stripped would certainly be felt, love range and minus heat gen especially, thanks for this one~<3

[Quicksilver Aberration]

ACW-2 has some niche builds typically revolving around Streaks/SRMs and ERLLs as a bracket build.

Stormcrow Prime So8 is solid with various large class lasers + mediums thanks to the HSL quirk, for the tonnage it can do pretty good damage without the range deficit that mechs like the BJ-1X has. tl;dr if you are wanting to be a bit more range-y than the BJ-1X, this is a really good choice.

Viper has a niche role as well for cases where you need a bit more range compared to the snubnose poptarts and need some fast JJ mech. Legs are a bit squishy for how you use it.

CDA-M (stock build is sufficient), underrated variant, similar to a faster Warthog with JJs. Takes some getting used to playing because you are a little more fragile than the Warthog due to glassjaw AND IS XL.

BJ-1X (7 ERML-BLC/LPL) a bit squishy but due to high mounts and good firepower/heat efficiency it is one of the best laser vomit mechs. TBT-5J is similar but has worse mounts, JJs, and a bit more range. You don't play them quite the same but they do similar things.

VT-5S/PHX-7S SNPPC/LPPC and either magshot or small laser backup. This is meant to be aggressive short range poptarts using JJs + MASC to dive in/out off-angles.

For QP, the Rival is like the above two mechs with lower mounts but much more range. In comp it's not worth the tonnage, but in QP where tonnage doesn't matter that much, it's pretty good.

Black Lanner is still OP thanks to the stupid amount of armor it has on top of the duration which makes it pretty much one of the best anti-light mechs in the game, pretty solid all around but probably best with either 5-6 MPLs or 1 HLL+6 ERML taking advantage of duration omnipods and C torso or the A So8 for annoying PPC builds.

Shadow Cat is pretty much the best medium in the game, 2 ERPPC + APG/LMG backup, 3 Plasma + APG mid range, 2 Beam + LMG DPS machine, 2 HLL + 2 ERML + LMGs, 4 ASRM6 if you're feeling spicy or if you have the Noble you can do 1 HLL/LPL + 6 ERML. You don't need ECM, but it is a good crutch especially given how blind the general population of this game is.

These are the meta mechs.

Edited by Quicksilver Aberration, Yesterday, 06:27 PM.