With a free mech from the loot bag event, I thought I'd grab a Nightstar and try an IS version of my beloved MCII-1 TeslaCannon. Heat can be an issue, I'm planning on grabbing all the heat gen nodes in addition to pretty much the entire Operations tree as I skill this up. But it's fun! It plays more or less like my MCII, and it's still 60 damage with some pretty good crit chances once components are opened up.
But what if you want hotter and slower? The Heavy PPC does give you a bit more mid-range and if something wants to stand inside of 90 meters.. ok. Unfortunately the HPPC has a cool down of five which doesn't match the cool down of 4 for the other weapons which is a great feature of the original post build.
Solid machine, this. 500 damage and 2 kills first game, unskilled. A timely post as I was stumped on what to get for my xmas prize - cheers!