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General Discussion / Re: What is in your opinion the best mount type?
« on: Today at 03:00:56 PM »Returning to the original topic, I was hoping for a tier list. Oh well.SCC did kind of tier them, but you know, what the hell one more tier list is good for the health.
And since lately I've been doing tier lists of almost everything, I'll try to explain the best I can my thought process behind the tiers. So in this case, I'm ranking mounts based on how much I will prioritize its weapons and am I building the whole loadout around it. For example let's say one ship has 2 of every single mount on it, ridiculous example but I just want to paint the picture. Of course this is inherently skewed since smaller mounts tend to have less impact.
Small ballistics: B
Would be higher if it had better HE options, it's either wet noodles or super slow inaccurate projectile.
Medium ballistics: A+
Like Vanshilar mentioned, another middle od the road HE gun would be nice but that barely impacts the score.
Large ballistics: B
They're not even that bad, it's just the smaller mounts having better options that need less skills and hullmods.
Small energy: D
I find them oversaturated since there are 4 PD options and only one is worth using (unless you min max every single PD bonus in the game). Actual guns are eh or way too niche.
Medium energy: C
Better situation than smalls but still lots of weapons that you won't use in 99% of the time. Heavy Blaster and Ion Pulsers are just two weapons and are basically all I use from this group (most of the time)
Large energy: A-
Solid options in general, but usually need a bit of support from different mounts.
Small missile: A-
Most impactful small mounts but very limited
Medium missile: A+
Highest spam potential in the game, just look how they enable a number of ships to be menacing.
Large missiles: A+
Last longer than mediums but usually need ECCM to be potent. Same score because they're less ridiculous imo but more limiting. Squall basically carries this group right now because of the end game shield tanks.
Generally agree with this.
I think I'd bump Medium Energy to a B- because I don't think Pulse Lasers and Phase Lances are bad. Small Ballistics are almost exclusively Kinetics on anything larger than a Frigate. The only time I use LAGs are on Frigates, though don't sleep on Light Mortars: they're so cheap that you can you saturate a ship (and a target) with them.
I'm with Thaago regarding Large Ballistics: overall they're better than any Medium counterpart. With all the complaints about the HAG, I wonder if it wouldn't benefit from a Heavy Mauler-esque fire rate: burst of 4 (over 1 second) at 240 damage each, 1 second between bursts. Same flux/DPS as current. It'd be slightly more accurate because recoil would decay a little between bursts and each shot would be individually stronger.
Large Energy is among my favorite and each option is good for what it does. I'll agree Small Energy is the weakest mount type right now.
I'm not quite as high on Missiles as some of you, though I admit they're very powerful. Large Missiles, for example, I'd place about on par with Large Energy, not leagues above. Solid "A" but not A+ for me, mostly because I don't value missiles quite as high in my builds. Maybe I'm the weird one.