PvP Guardian Gauss Cannon testing during piracy.

Ziljan

Ziljan
Hmm, tested it out vs an Asp in PVP duel with 4x of these and they barely did any damage to shields at point blank range. The heat from 3 volleys was enough to destroy the guns on my own ship though, lol.

Was not impressed.

Have to wonder what kind of resists your target had and how many SYS pips they were using?
 

Bryan K

Bryan K
How does it stack up compared to G5 engineered normal weaponry?

I’m toying with the idea of putting them on my Anaconda so I’ll have a ship for ‘goid hunting AND normal PvE, but I’m not sure if they’d make adequate replacements for my normal gear.
 

Ziljan

Ziljan
Bryan K said:
How does it stack up compared to G5 engineered normal weaponry?

I’m toying with the idea of putting them on my Anaconda so I’ll have a ship for ‘goid hunting AND normal PvE, but I’m not sure if they’d make adequate replacements for my normal gear.
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On paper it has amazing DPS, in reality the DPS is underwhelming compared to my optimized builds. The Plasma Chargers are devastating vs Expert and below, not so great against anything above a Master NPC.

As you can see it takes a whole ~50 seconds to kill a basic Master level human NPC, which is really really slow imo. Normally takes me under 10 seconds for an NPC like this one:

[video=youtube_share;EKRMgctB4KQ]https://youtu.be/EKRMgctB4KQ[/video]
 

Bryan K

Bryan K
Ziljan said:
On paper it has amazing DPS, in reality the DPS is underwhelming compared to my optimized builds. The Plasma Chargers are devastating vs Expert and below, not so great against anything above a Master NPC.

As you can see it takes a whole ~50 seconds to kill a basic Master level human NPC, which is really really slow imo. Normally takes me under 10 seconds for an NPC like this one:

https://youtu.be/EKRMgctB4KQ
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I see. Well, at least they actually work on human ships. That makes my AX ships less useless outside of NHUSSs.

Thank you.
 
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Threeofseven

Threeofseven
Ziljan said:
Hmm, tested it out vs an Asp in PVP duel with 4x of these and they barely did any damage to shields at point blank range. The heat from 3 volleys was enough to destroy the guns on my own ship though, lol.

Was not impressed.

Have to wonder what kind of resists your target had and how many SYS pips they were using?
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Not sure but I doubt it was much. This weapon seems to struggle the most against bi weaves. Mainly because, unlike the railgun, it's damage is 100% thermal I believe. Most people who run bi weaves have high thermal resistances.
 

Surprised Brony

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Ziljan said:
On paper it has amazing DPS, in reality the DPS is underwhelming compared to my optimized builds. The Plasma Chargers are devastating vs Expert and below, not so great against anything above a Master NPC.

As you can see it takes a whole ~50 seconds to kill a basic Master level human NPC, which is really really slow imo. Normally takes me under 10 seconds for an NPC like this one:

https://youtu.be/EKRMgctB4KQ
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Keep in mind those are class 2 weapons, and there are only two of them. That's a respectable amount of damage, imo. It's not great, but it could be way worse. And I did take the time to watch for moments when there was no normal plasma shot added to the mix. Obviously, not really worth replacing current weapons yet but maybe one day.
 

Ziljan

Ziljan
Surprised Brony said:
Keep in mind those are class 2 weapons, and there are only two of them. That's a respectable amount of damage, imo. It's not great, but it could be way worse. And I did take the time to watch for moments when there was no normal plasma shot added to the mix. Obviously, not really worth replacing current weapons yet but maybe one day.
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I've used four of them against a player CMDR in an Asp standing perfectly still for a weapons test with 280 MJ paper shields, and I took off about 6% of his shield with a single x4 volley of the gauss cannon. That's really really bad imo.
 
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Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
2 things:

1: Your use of ion mines makes me feel fuzzy inside

2: This PC weapon makes me feel like:

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Are these bad boys medium only?
 

Elpapo

Elpapo
These weapons are joke. May be good only vs thagoids and noobs in thier badly optimised trade ships, but hardly these can have any use for PVP... like against any of decent bulid around.

My cutter took fire from 3 ships that had 2x of them each.... for 30 mins and barely had bank only once... eventually they ran of ammo, and I aint had to even bank second time... 3 ships lol.
 
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Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Elpapo said:
These weapons are joke. May be good only vs thagoids and noobs in thier badly optimised trade ships, but hardly these can have any use for PVP... like against any of decent bulid around.

My cutter took fire from 3 ships that had 2x of them each.... for 30 mins and barely had bank only once... eventually they ran of ammo, and I aint had to even bank second time... 3 ships lol.
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Truth be told you can say this about most weapons with the shields you can achieve.
 
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