Artemis...Worth it?

Which is funny because the video convinces me that there is a benefit to Artemis with SRM's. Not that it matters that much I was already convinced based off of my own personal experience.

 

The best way to describe it from my personal experience is

without artemis SRMs at a certain range get really "squiggly" and usually you see a few go so wide they miss completely. With artemis they spread out but most of the shots hit the enemy mech somewhere

 

Thanks for the video. I paused it several times where each volley was fired about the same distance from the wall. If there was a mech in the line of fire it looks to me that most rockets from the artemis and non-artemis volleys would hit, but the artemis volley would mostly hit in one section of the mech while the non-artemis volley would be spread out over multiple sections. So my personal take is that artemis will help concentrate fire to one section and take down the enemy quicker. Although the non-artemis volley might be more effective at hitting fast light mechs.

 

I have two AS7D-DC builds. One is using a lb 10-x with 3xsrm6 using Artemis and the other is using an AC-20 with 3xsrm6 non-artemis. I get more damage from the first build (have recorded 10 matches over 1200, I don't record under 1200) than the second (every match under 1000 except for 1 with 1139). Though I get more kills with the second build. Both build have 3 tons of AC rounds and 4 tons srms. Both builds have 2 med lasers.

 

Interesting observation, although I'd be interested in what your results would be with the LB 10-x build with and without artemis, and the AC20 build with and without artemis. That way you can eliminate the LB 10-x and AC20 as the cause of your differences. I would bet that you would do the most damage with the LB 10-x non-artemis build (spreads the damage out over more of the enemy mech), and get the most kills with the AC20 artemis build(focuses the damage to kill the enemy quicker).

 

I have done both .....twin lbx tripple srm6 with and without artemis and ac20 tripple srm6 with and without artemis. For the LBX builds SRMs I think will do more damage regaurdless because effective engagement range is roughly 100m or less. At that range you lose very few missiles on a stationary target artemis or not. But, with Artemis you can start firing at about 150m witch means putting damage on target for longer so artemis would increase your damage by a bit.

With the AC20 build...I can take artemis or leave it. I just recently dropped artemis for a bigger engine so that I could get into the fight faster actually.