I had a couple of friends in various units test this one out, as well as posted it here for feedback, and this is the variant that seems to be taking over more and more for the MKI (the 2x SSRM2 3L build).
5* This build has everything I could've wanted. Speed? Tick. Nasty ECM? Tick. Nasty firepower for a light? Tick.
Hello, I am new to this game (playing since a few days) and I bought this Raven as my first mech. Now I am rather poor on C-Bills, had to save a lot for just buying the engine and all that stuff, but now I have equipped it nearly like in the build. I wanted to ask how important is the Artemis thing? I didn't buy it yet because of lack of C-Bills and put an additional heatsink in instead. Is the Artemis worth it? I am a bit hesitant because if I don't like it I have to not only have paid for it, but also have to pay for it to remove it again...
Hi Gokkel, welcome to MechSpecs! Artemis is not neccessary but it does help tighten the missile spread, enabling you to get more focused damage. Especially at ranges between, oh say, 50 - 270. If you fire without Artemis at anything inside 50m pretty much all missiles will hit, but fire at 200 meters at a Jenner for example and the missile spread will be larger then the mechs torso sections. Some may miss entirely. This is just estimates on my part, others may disagree.
Michael has done an interesting video about SRMs, including comparison with and without artemis. It's not perfectly updated since the game evolved (iirc they reworked the trajectory) but the basics are still the same. (and Lan covered the most important)
Hello Gokell, Artemis (for me) is a must if you have missile weapons equipped on your mech missiles will have a greater damage...but will be more expensive though money is worth it
The question is not really if it's worth the money, but if it's worth the additional ton and crit space.
all of the weapons on this build only go to 270m for full damage. around 540m for the ML. so no, BAP would not be useful in this case.
I've been looking to upscale from my Locust with an ECM mech. I think this will be the best fit for my light piloting. I like SPLas more than MLas so that will be the only change I make to this build. I'll rate when I finally get the damned thing!
Good build. I can't really use the power of this mech because my computer lags to death on lights but i run 200 damage and I usually get about 100 using the things I was trying but this build has me for what I like most on mechs. SPEED.
This is almost one of the builds I'm running right now, the difference being 1 ton of my ammo is in the leg instead of the CT and I dropped the armor on the left arm to have full armor on the right arm and cockpit: Probably one of my favorite 3L builds, my other is similar but drops Artemis and it runs 2x MPLas and tag and no extra heatsink.
