Darth Maul
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Posted - 2003.09.28 06:13:00 -
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I'm about tired of reading all this Tacheyon propaganda bull****. Tachs, and lasers in general are fine for PvE.. but in PvP its projectiles and missles all the way. With my setup and skills my tachs on an apoc are roughly 6.56 damage mods and a 7.74 rof. An average hit on an npc rat is mid to upper 200ish when at optimum range, lower when closer or farther. 300 hits are quite common, and the best wrecking so far a little over 900. Sounds uber?
Well I fought my corpmates Raven, our pertinent skills are very comperable (read very top of the line gunery and supporting skills). He used 1400mm's and cruise missles, I used 4 tachs, 2 heavy mods, and 2 cruise launchers. All he did was turn on a few hardeners and a SB, and kicked my ass from one side of the system to the other. I was landing hits for an average of 80 tops, while he was smoking me for 350+ and in the beginning when I had the cap to turn on tach shields for a few seconds he was landing hits for almost 200.
I used that same raven setup on chaos and kicked the **** out of all the laser users - so I was expecting it. But it just irks the utter hell out of me when people spread all these lies about tacheyons and lasers in general. The people scrambling to mount them for PvP, especially if they dont have an Apoc with at least lvl 3 and tons of cap regen mods and skills are utter fools. If I cant take down hardened shields with 5600 cap at a 240 regen and 80ish modified cap per shot on the tacheyons, I don't see how anyone else can.
A laser user doesnt have the cap to fire his weapons and run tac shields and whatever other medium modules he nededs. Its just not there.
Sure against unhardened shields lasers do great comparable damage - but since THE damage to harden against is Em and Thermal since those are the naturally lowest resist types.. that advantage is always gone in PvP, and the situation only gets much worse when you get to naturally resistant armor.
I had stopped posting on this topic 2 weeks ago when it was becomming clear that the Devs were buying all the bull**** the anti-laser crowd was spewing, so I gave up. But all this post is doing is rubbing salt in the wound. Lasers were nerfed overall, and stacked tac shields are still way too effective.
Who cares? When I farm rats Ill use my trusty ole Tach Apoc.. when I need to PvP Ill load up the Tempest with projectiles and cruise missles, and when I need a guaranteed win Ill load the EW Scorp. Thats just the way things are now.
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