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Fellow Ex-Gunners Of Icarus Lend Me Your Ears!
Echoez:
I stand by my opinion that Gunners aren't useful on light guns as much as on Heavy ones cause of the light guns not realy needing more than one ammo type and the engineer's ability to buff his weapons.
Buffed flak 4 shots a Pyra with heavy clip and you will be much more accurate and faster than a gunner using burst on it.
On Heavy guns though and on ships like the Goldfish/Spire and Galleon, you have heavy guns, you want at least one to be firing at all times, so a guy will be on his gun all the time firing it, there, I see no point to not have the extra ammo types of a gunner on it since he won't be leaving it much to repair anything and if it goes down, your secondary engi can just help him out a bit.
If they have mercuries, then better pray, cause not even 4 engineers would save your gun anyway.
Against Hwachas, if your pilot is decent and didn't manage to bring a Hwacha fish in your face, then their volley won't instantly finish off your gun, so usually, jumping off to quickly whack it once mid-volley, is a good way to keep it from going down, then you just resume firing and gump off quickly again to bring it back to full.
Moo:
The gunner could take the buffer in his tool slot. Then he'd be super-damaging. But super-stuck when his gun is damaged....
RearAdmiralZill:
The act of buffing is what lowers the dps vs a gunner who simply swaps ammo during reloads to "buff" his gun.
While some guns allow the buff to happen during reload, most don't. That would mean you wait till reload is done, then buff, lowering dps. Then you risk missing the ammo swap, and get buffed vanilla rounds. Then you either use them, lowering your effectiveness, or reload again, then buff, further lowering dps.
Fire isn't the end of the world on guns right now, and is easily repairable by a pipe wrench during reloads till an engie has nothing better to do than put the fire out.
If youre taking a buff engie, then you rebuild that gun at the same rate as a gunner (pipe wrench) unless you make him forgo fire protection, so then your fire problem comes back, and you do what a gunner does and repair through till an engie gets there.
N-Sunderland:
--- Quote ---The act of buffing is what lowers the dps vs a gunner who simply swaps ammo during reloads to "buff" his gun.
While some guns allow the buff to happen during reload, most don't. That would mean you wait till reload is done, then buff, lowering dps. Then you risk missing the ammo swap, and get buffed vanilla rounds. Then you either use them, lowering your effectiveness, or reload again, then buff, further lowering dps.
--- End quote ---
That's what pre-buffing is for.
RearAdmiralZill:
You can't pre-buff after the initial engagement.
And If I have a buff engie on board, your argument really falls on its face for pre-buffs. But that doesn't always happen of course.
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