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DJ Logicalia:
So this new update did a ton of stuff. Like. A ton

I think my favorite thing that happened was the Banshee buff. Objectively the  most underused not-joke gun is now totally viable. From my nonscientific testing (also take into account, I have no idea how well Banshees did before), it seems a Banshee with one clip of standard rounds will take out ~1/2 of balloon health, and do on average of 9 fire stacks. One standard clip can also take out ~1/3 of Galleon armour and permahull. Today I ran a dual Banshee Pyramidion and won. I also ran a triple Banshee Hwacha Spire and that did really well.

So, this raises a couple questions:
1) Is the Banshee overpowered and
2) How is this going to impact ship builds from here on out.

I'm glad that such a formerly terrible gun is now a thing, but I'm curious about the positive and negative impacts on the future

Sprayer:

--- Quote from: DJ Logicalia on October 20, 2014, 09:31:29 pm ---[...]
2) How is this going to impact ship builds from here on out.
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Gonna see it a lot more on the side Pyramidions now.
Since it has great arcs, I can see it used on many Junker builds too.

Mezhu:
It doesn't do that much balloon damage, at least versus unsprayed balloons. Anyway, it's a legit gun now, certainly far more powerful and versatile than it used to be. I still don't think it's reliable or specifically effective enough to be used as a primary gun in most bifectas, but it can be extremely dangerous as a 3rd (/4th) gun that shoots every once in a while (e.g. pyra side, junker tri, mobula pilot gun etc). Situationally, it could even be somewhat viable as a primary gun for disable based hybrid builds (e.g. carro banshee instead of carro flamer, for easier balloon pops and more perma damage potential at the cost of far less fires and engineer interruption, or hades banshee instead of art or flak, gaining more fire damage and harrassing power at the cost of explosive/raw disable).

Byron Cavendish:
The banshee has been good for a very long time, and it's been baffling to me that the competitive community never uses it. I think I've heard Sammy say the same. This buff was just a lil icing on the cake.

GeoRmr:

--- Quote from: Byron Cavendish on October 21, 2014, 09:29:39 am ---The banshee has been good for a very long time, and it's been baffling to me that the competitive community never uses it. I think I've heard Sammy say the same. This buff was just a lil icing on the cake.

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But the competitive community did use it and do use it, frequently. Why does everyone keep saying that no one does?

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