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Weapon Ratings: From Golden to Garbage
Schwalbe:
Maybe one day, I, Zan and a good captain will wreck you with merc-flak-art combo. :) Then you'll reconsider it once more, and once more, and once more up to point where you'll find that there's no better/worse weaponry, only those that are more difficult to handle.
But you are heading the right way so far. ;)
Kamoba:
@seriouschess RE: Harpoon gun.
This gun is a slow balloon popper, though other weapons do a better job at that, its also a good tool for when you want to Mine and enemy at close range, but is most commonly mentioned as a ramming weapon, get a galleon and moonshine, time the harpoon shot and the moonshine right and you can effectively pull in the enemy into a pretty nasty ram. Other uses could be for if you see an ally in a 1v1 situation about to be 2v1'd and you want to redirect them away from your ally without a ram. (Such as when you're on a squid.) however in terms of effectiveness more often than not other weapons will do better jobs.
Imagine:
--- Quote from: Kamoba on January 20, 2015, 10:53:13 am ---@seriouschess RE: Harpoon gun.
This gun is a slow balloon popper, though other weapons do a better job at that, its also a good tool for when you want to Mine and enemy at close range, but is most commonly mentioned as a ramming weapon, get a galleon and moonshine, time the harpoon shot and the moonshine right and you can effectively pull in the enemy into a pretty nasty ram. Other uses could be for if you see an ally in a 1v1 situation about to be 2v1'd and you want to redirect them away from your ally without a ram. (Such as when you're on a squid.) however in terms of effectiveness more often than not other weapons will do better jobs.
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It's not a balloon popper. The damage type is piercing, so if anything it's a hull stripper.
Ightrril:
--- Quote from: Imagine on January 20, 2015, 11:25:42 am ---
--- Quote from: Kamoba on January 20, 2015, 10:53:13 am ---@seriouschess RE: Harpoon gun.
This gun is a slow balloon popper, though other weapons do a better job at that, its also a good tool for when you want to Mine and enemy at close range, but is most commonly mentioned as a ramming weapon, get a galleon and moonshine, time the harpoon shot and the moonshine right and you can effectively pull in the enemy into a pretty nasty ram. Other uses could be for if you see an ally in a 1v1 situation about to be 2v1'd and you want to redirect them away from your ally without a ram. (Such as when you're on a squid.) however in terms of effectiveness more often than not other weapons will do better jobs.
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It's not a balloon popper. The damage type is piercing, so if anything it's a hull stripper.
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Harpoon does 70 Flechette damage and 60 Piercing. That means each shot with default ammo could do 138 damage to balloons (which have a health of 1200) or 108 damage to armour (which varies between ships from 230 for an unbuffed Squid up to 1040 for a buffed Galleon). Considering it takes over 16.5s to reload I think it's fair to say that damage output isn't one of its uses.
It's not good at breaking armour or balloons, that's not what it's for. It works well with disrupting movement in engagements and possibly using your own ship as a wall to smash other ships into (e.g. with a Galleon especially). It doesn't really matter what damage it does since, with the reload time on it, that can pretty much be ignored.
Kamoba:
I did say other weapons have better effect! ;)
Though the numbers speak true..
However it still has a place in the world.. :)
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