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Artemis v Banshee

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nhbearit:
First, personally I prefer the Artemis over the Banshee. This is mostly because the builds I run that would benefit the most from having either gun tend to be either long range (e.g. Mandarin Junker) or disable oriented. At longer ranges the Artemis is simply more accurate, which makes it dependable. For disables, an Artemis is better at disabling specific components, which is normally what I need to happen. The Banshee is certainly a good gun and has a place in alot of builds. I simply don't use it that often because of the builds I fly. Which is why I prefer the Artemis.

Second, and I know this is a bit nitpicky and pedantic, the plural of Artemis is certainly not Artemii. Using -ii is how you pluralize words that end with an -us sound with LATIN based words. Artemis is a GREEK name. Based on a discussion I had a while ago, I believe the plural form of Artemis would sound like Artemota. I'm sorry to have to be so nitpicky about this point. I simply feel that allowing people to keep advertising the use of Artemii would do that earlier discussion an injustice.

Squidslinger Gilder:
Neither, the art isn't strong enough to stop ships from closing range and the shee is almost completely useless with chem. I knew even with the buff that the Shee wasn't Op. Its just people that don't chem. Lot of new players don't do it. In pubs you can take flameboats and just melt faces off, in vet matches you can't do squat without a carronade or something else with the flamer.

Replaceable:
I like artemii personally got a nice ring to it.

#JustSteamPunkLingo

ShadedExalt:
I like the Banshee and Artemis equally.  The thing is though, they're for different things.  Art is for hull damage and disable, Banshee is for firey harassment and a slightly better anti permahull weapon.  But dat Banshee scream doe...

Arturo Sanchez:
I frankly really hate the banshee.

Banshee fires are nothing to a ship as they don't stack above chem spray limit. And their damage isn't all that impressive compared to others guns. Want fire? flamer or hades. Want damage gatling or hades.

For the longest time I ran a double art merc mobula.
And my spire is a merc art, hwacha/flak, flamer.

Only recently have I switched the one art for a banshee because the reload times of the art could give away a hull rebuild. But i have noticed that hull break comes longer than it use to.

So the banshee is pretty much being used like a meta pyra's mortar. I would otherwise use flak in its place but I only keep it because of the greater range the banshee gives.

That being said the banshee is a nightmare to actually shoot accurately. Its like a mini hwacha when fired rapidly with none of the power.





also. Why is the plural for artemis artemii? That plural form only appears on words from words with latin roots (words ending in -us like cactus). If anything artemis has a greek route. it doesn't follow latin rules.

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