Maynard Benaui wrote:Sinister wrote:A shield module is a waste of a slot if it's only for very specific situations. What good is high buffer armor if your AP runs too low, or runs out? Which is going to happen if you turn that shield on for a short time.
You already know that it is a waste of slat even though you have no idea what specific situation can be?
The whole issue here is the fact that laser bots have a bonus wasted on shields, when shields are obviously not something that is suited for this type of bot. Yes it may have specific situations where it is sometimes useful but I don't believe this warrants wasting an entire bonus for laser bots. They're screwing laser users into using shields, they're saying "if you don't use a shield you'll be wasting a bonus". And that's stupid.
Better they remove the shield bonus and replace it with a max accumulator bonus, like the baphomet has. The laser mech and heavy mechs need it BADLY because as it current stands, even after the laser ap reduction, laser mechs and heavy mechs are still not worth using.
I don't believe that I should be forced to equip a shield in order to make the most of my bots bonuses. Especially when you consider that equipping a shield on a bot which has SEVERE AP issues already is one of the dumbest ideas i've heard of yet.
The laser AP reduction change only really made light laser bots worth using, the baphomet in paticular and only because it has a max accumulator bonus. The artemis and seth are incredibly inefficient because they simply can't keep up with the AP use of medium lasers as it is and that's without having a shield equipped. The shield bonus is just worthless for the majority of players who will use lasers.
Last edited by Sinister (2010-02-04 15:22:07)