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Serenum:
Why did they buff the mercury and lumberjack?
They were already two of the most competitive weapons out there, it doesn't make sense.

And this is coming from someone who uses both the lumberjack and the mercury on his ship...

N-Sunderland:
The merc has always been one of my favourite guns. I've been practicing with it for three weeks straight. I've gotten better and better at leading, disabling components, etc.

Yet I don't think it needs all this at all. The changes to arc and reload time should be dropped. But for the penetration to stay, the piercing should be lowered. Otherwise you're getting way too much simultaneous disables and armour damage.

Though first I'd like to hear more about the new merc penetration mechanics.

N-Sunderland:
Also, I should elaborate a bit on what I think is horribly, depressingly wrong with the lochnagar's arming time reduction.

Sniping builds are strong. They can deal insane amounts of damage from a long way away. The arming time on the lumber and heavy flak makes a lot of sense: it means that a brawling team can get up close to a sniping Galleon's broadside and have its effectiveness reduced. That's good. It keeps sniping balanced and gives brawling builds a good chance. With the new lochnagar, there is virtually nothing that a brawling team can do. Stay out? Sure, they'll get pummelled by merc-lumber fire. Get up close? They'll get crushed by merc + loch flak/lumber. That simply isn't right.

Another bit that makes no sense is that charged merc, as of 1.3 testing, does higher DPS than the Gatling. Charged merc does 89.7 armour DPS before the reload (which was shortened, reducing another one of the gat's advantages). Heavy gat does 69. If you switch to any other ammo type, you'll miss a pile of shots, and the DPS will once again be lower than the merc.

Tl;dr: Sniping OP, Gat useless

JaceBoojah:
I was tired last night and did not write all my notes.

I like the Loch buff.  Loch was completely useless before and the damage to gun will keep it from being over powered ever.

We talked to Bubbles in game for a while and heres his words on the Merc

The penetration buff was always intended and is now working. that is staying.

He doesn't know why there were other Buffs to the Merc and will talk to Eric (the balance guy) about them.

Bubbles be praised!

Echoez:

--- Quote from: JaceBoojah on July 04, 2013, 01:12:17 pm ---I like the Loch buff.  Loch was completely useless before and the damage to gun will keep it from being over powered ever.

The penetration buff was always intended and is now working. that is staying.

--- End quote ---

Lochnagar useless?...... Just because people are stupid and couldn'd find a use for it doesn't mean it wasn't powerful. It is amazing on both the Heavy Flak and the Heavy Carronade.

Also the penetration was intended? with the full damage carrying over in a line? That's bull. It needs a massive damage reduction to anything else it hits bar the first component.

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