The typical 2xPPC+2xAC5 poptart is fun up to the point where, say, a Spider or Ember with 4x MG starts dancing around shredding you while you desperately try to hit it with an AC, trying to take some distance to hopefully hit it with a PPC, and in the meantime someone else comes along and starts hitting you hard with SRMs, and within 10 seconds it's all over. You know what that's like, we've all been there. In PUGs, your team will often see you being harassed by a Spider and do nothing about it if they have a bigger target to focus on, even if that target is not a threat at that moment. This build is still a poptart, but compared to that original poptart, this is faster and more manoeuvrable, includes AMS, and has 2x arm-mounted medium lasers to defend yourself in such scenarios (and deal some additional damage in short range, of course). The downsides are pretty obvious but I'll list them anyway: 5-dmg less pinpoint damage, less ammo, slightly hotter overall (though actually cooler for poptarting purposes). Feel free to replace a heat sink with more ammo if that suits you. I haven't tried myself, but this build can be reasonably done with a STD engine as well: EDIT: after the last JJ nerf, replaced AMS for another JJ:
Good build. Was using the "Original poptart" build but didnt like the sluggishness and the arm ac5 wasnt that good for poptarting. Used a variant of this build. I dropped the AMS and got 1 more DHS, 1/2 ton more UAC ammo and more armor. [/URL]
