AC5 Mechs and Weapon Quirks Disscussion

Or my Dragon.

Potentially my Wolverine 6R but it has maybe too little armour to cover the SRM burst.

 

Mock not I'll happily take my Dragon 1N against most mechs - only 2 I'm not confident about killing if I'm not ambushed - Firestarters and Spiders. Its when I get too cocky and go against multiple mechs I have to eat the loss. Quite often I can at least do heavy damage and make it back to cover.

Wolverine 6R I'm working on as its a very diferent tactical beast.

 

This remeinds me of the dakkahawk I use (2ac5 1ac2) After soloing a brawler atlas at close range with it i felt i could handle anything. It was so good at suppression that would jump in front of my team getting stomped on by groups and push them all back into cover. I loved the tactical ablity being added to my arsenal but recently its felt less effective. Not sure why so if somebody knows feel free to tell me what changed since i used it before clan release. Either way i may have start playing these new daka supression kings. Dragon and wolverine are there any others that got quirked?

 

Blackjack - 1DC has a really good dual AC5 option but that 10-15t less weight hurts with the current ammo consumption.

AC/5 Cooldown +20(40)%/Ballistic Weapon Cooldown +20%
AC/5 Range +10(20)% Ballistic Weapon Range +10%
Ballistic Weapon Velocity +12.5%
Torso Yaw Speed +25%

If you want heavier then: the CTF-4X has interesting quirks bearing in mind it can load triple to quadruple AC5:
Additional Structure (LT&RT) +7
Additional Structure (RA&LA) +5
AC/5 Velocity +10 (20)% Ballistic Weapon Velocity +10%
Ballistic Cooldown +12.5%
Ballistic Range +12.5%
Laser Duration -12.5%
BNC-3E can go triple AC5 with:

AC/5 Cooldown +7.5(15)% Ballistic Weapon Cooldown +7.5%
AC/5 Velocity +7.5(15)% Ballistic Weapon Velocity +7.5%
Energy Weapon Heat Generation -10%

I use those 3 plus the WVR-6R and DRG-1N.

 

Thanks the BJ-1DC is one of my best mechs so switching it to AC5 was interesting. I didn't like it the first time but with a lower engine for more ammo I think it will work out. sucks about all the heatsinks you have to put in though. I also didn't use the cool down mod but will probably get it so I can make it really effective. Was trying to hold out till they change them to cheaper but I don't know if they will do that sooner with CW or later so might be a good buy now. Sadly I spend all my money on mechs so I rarely have any left over for mods and the wepons mods finally being useful is painful since I want to min max soooooo bad.

 

I've never seen the point of this mech and never bought it, despite being a BlackJack enthusiast. But the quirks made it quite tempting.

 

The point (for me anyway) of the BJ-1DC is the 4th medium laser you can fit with the the AC 20 , 42 ac 20 rounds, and max engine. It's like having a faster ac 40 jagger that never completely runs dry and always is ignored next to most other mechs. It's really good at precision kills at close ish range. I was able to kill between 3 to 6 mechs and do 600 - 900 damage in most games consistently (a lot of 5kills 700+ damage for some reason). I really felt like the deciding factor on my team in this mech. In my opinion jump jets are overrated . Cover and position is so much more important.

Two weeks before clans came out the hitboxes on the bjs got bugged in a patch (believe me I piloted it A LOT and I saw forum posts about it) and I stopped using her. At that time as she was popping a lot more frequently and then of course clans came out a little later and IS had even more trouble so I haven't used her much since then and was trying out other mechs. I wonder if they fixed this by now. I think I'll take her out for a spin when I the oxide goes down early on in a match next time.

 

Your armor must be incredibly low.
The idea is interesting but to be honest 1/ I like JJ on my BoomJack and 2/ I find it hot enough with 3 MLas.
If I buy a -1DC, it will me to go with 2 AC/5s (though it looks quite heavy) or 2 AC/2s.

 

Not really. The armor was fine I just emptied it down to 1 on the arm some off the head and more off the legs. As I said positioning allowed me to keep them from shooting my legs that often and I was usually torso cored before legs. You should try it some time but as for the AC5 build I'm going to try a XL 210 in it no back ups tonight and then lower it from there if I need more ammo. Don't like slow but it will be using the screen shake and diminutive size to survive.

 

Wow Just Wow about the bj 1dc. I'll try to post vids later. Good to see you in game Sass. Also I bet your CTF 4x is awesome now too. Wish I hadn't sold it