When it comes to my light mechs, it isn't gonna matter. Heat isn't really an issue for me and probably never will be, however, when it comes to the heavy mechs the new DHS are going to cause a big problem. Building a heavy energy mech now is a trade off between HS, armor, and tonnage. A 1.4 DHS will help a little, but with so much crit space being taken up by the DHS isn't going to kill where I can put other things. Really, I want the stock K2 to be viable. Of course I'd upgrade to ERPPC.
well there is another thing that change, that will change several things considering Small Laser and Small-, Medium- & Large Pulse Laser, as they generate to little heat currently
Which affects a lot of AWS builds that utilize MPLas as their primary weapon. I don't know many legit builds that use LPL or SPL.