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Lieutenant Noir:
Hmm, so I guess you definatly don't need ammunition that hampers it's rate of fire.
In doing so reduces it's killing potential and harrassing abilities.
I don't really see any ammunition that would substitute for greased besides just normal.

From the ammunition that don't touch it's rate of fire (Heatsink, Lesmok, and Heavy clip) the clip reduction from the last two reduces it's potential for any sort of harassment while the damage reduction from heatsink does nothing to justify the same rate of fire as normal.

Strange, I always saw the Banshee as a gun that had versatile preferences of ammo types (even though having it's Greased meta).

BlackenedPies:
I used to have heavy clip banshee on the left side of merc mobula with banshee - carro. Heavy clip was good for extending effective range but banshee damage is too low and I swapped it for a light flak with much more success, especially after switching to lesmok light flak - gat.

Extirminator:
You used to only use heavyclip and greased for banshee, so you can guarantee hull hits on distant ships with heavy. But since the heavy nerf, I would just use normal at longer ranges and greased in close vs certain ships that have slim hull profile. Just because with that many more shots you are probably bound to hit more than with the heavy.

We actually use heatsink in a banshee on one of the builds that require banshee to be rarely shot by a main engineer. Heatsink is not hindering the fire rate and give a larger clip size than normal so you still get the support potential when you use it. Some may argue that greased is better because of higher dps vs the armor than heatsink, but in that specific build, the enemy is almost always at lower than 50% Hull when using the banshee and it requires turning time to it, and sometimes the engineer has to repair and get on it a bit later... so I found that the added benefit of a shorter chem cycle with heatsink on and extremely high rotation speed is more beneficial than greased most of the time.

But in most definitely all other cases greased is the way to go.

Indreams:
Does firing the banshee in bursts (and not with a burst round) increase accuracy?

Say I have a mid-long range mobula build. I have hades top for hull strip. Flak for kills. Artemis for gun/engine disables.
But Banshee for Balloon Pop? I guess its accurate enough, but is it better to shoot slower for accuracy, or use a heavy clip for accuracy?

ZnC:
This thread actually made me study the Banshee all over again; I'm thinking about some interesting effects when used with other weapons.

@Extir: I understand the faster response of Heatsink, but still find it a bit strange because Banshee has one of the fastest rotation speeds.

@Indreams: Unlike weapon recoil in conventional FPS, firing slower does not affect projectile spread. Banshee doesn't do much direct damage against Balloons, but it does make it catch fire.

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