#giant laser

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north pecan
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The front of a ship isn't a vulnerable place

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Not really

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The front of the ship is where the surface turrets go

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Avoiders, Ul fastwalls,

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Both are ships with a lot of front of the ship weapons

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But the thing is, Isn't ions the bigger Step up, from Dlb's

agile latch
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yeah but disrupters can also just break the diamons if the ship ain't moving that much and destroy the entire system

north pecan
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Usually unlikely

agile latch
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also its a single shot

north pecan
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Deeply embedded ion cores are able to be quite defended from projectiles

agile latch
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yeah but if its a tiny line for the ion to escape out of it is hard to aim

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i think

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did not really do ions

north pecan
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Not really hard to aim

agile latch
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ion beams will still be bigger than this

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it does like 2k per sec

north pecan
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You just ram the target, and the ion is both, closer dealing more damage, and is hitting the enemy ship

agile latch
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this does 2k per shot

north pecan
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Often leading to the ion vaporising a big line directly into the enemy reactor and cr

north pecan
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I am thinking your suggestion has less DPS

agile latch
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yes

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it can also have a 3 or 5 sec cooldown

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its like a less expensive way of doing ions

north pecan
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2k/3, is 666 dps

agile latch
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to just bridge that gap of midgame

north pecan
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Sl's have 400 DPS, and those are the smallest lasers

agile latch
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you mean laser blasters?

north pecan
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This gun, with 666.66 DPS, will cost more energy to fire while dealing the DPS of 2 sl's

north pecan
agile latch
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well how about more dmg per shot?

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i just kinda wanna have a weapon for the middle part of transitioning from heavy lasers to ions

north pecan
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It would need about 6000 damage each shot for DPS to match that of the Dlb

agile latch
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heavy laser?

north pecan
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Yes, Dlb

agile latch
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k

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i mean dmg could be boosted did not really think of the math

north pecan
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The thing with this weapon, unlike the SL, or the Dlb, is that it lacks the needed accuracy, by that I mean it has 45 degrees of rotation, about that of flak

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Meaning it cannot exactly focus fire

agile latch
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well yeah so it can be more vulnerable

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in the front

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its plenty in the front

north pecan
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The front isn't a vulnerable place

agile latch
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can be

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plus its low hp

north pecan
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Where else do surface weapons go anyways

agile latch
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disrupters can kill it

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quickly

north pecan
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Placing them behind the ship doesn't make them hit things

agile latch
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it has like 3k or so hp

north pecan
agile latch
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cuz the diamond needed

north pecan
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The Avoider ship archetype for example

agile latch
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alr bud

north pecan
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The type of ship that uses Dlb's and sometimes Sl's the most

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This type of ship

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The main bonus of using lasers over cannons is that they have a wide fire arc and high accuracy

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As cannons have more damage output to make up with