Standart mortar

The poor standart mortar... the loneliest weapon in the game... It’s so bad that I haven’t seen yet a post asking for it to be boosted and no one had ever written “standard mortar” as a tag of a post...

But today it’s the day! Normally in the kind of posts where we ask for a boost/nerf we state the pros and the cons of that weapon and we then compare it with other similar weapons. At last we propose ways to improve it, so I’ll make it simple:

CHARACTERISTICS
PROS-
1- It’s a mortar (so you can shoot over obstacles (like any other mortar).
2- It has a little bit more damage than the ballpark mortar.
3- through research you can obtain a cooldown of 8sec instead of 10.

CONS-
1- It has a radious of 3 (so basically you just hit defenders decently with it). As a comparison, the bb has a radious of 3.3 and the long range mortar of 3.
2- Same projectile velocity as a ballpark mortar (with that radious is ridiculous).
3- Low damage in comparison with its radious/projectile speed.
4- The fact that it can have a cooldown of 8sec doesn’t compensate for the lack of damage/shot.
5- Forget about hitting speeders and enforcers.
6- Mortars are mostly used in shooter builds, where a 8sec cooldown isn’t very relevant.

If I’m not wrong, devs thought that the 8sec cooldown would compensate for the low damage per shot, but in reality is not like that.

COMPARISON:
Standart-Ballpark—> taking in account the radious/damage/cooldown of both, the Ballpark is more effective,

Standard-Bb—> taking in account the radious/damage/cooldown of both, the Bb is more effective, specially because even tho it’s difficult to use, you can deal a huge amount of damage per shot and it has a bigger radious.

Long range-Standart—> Again, the radious/damage/cooldown of both, the long range mortar is more effective because with the long range you can shoot up to really long distances and you compensate the lack of damage with the high projectile speed.

HOW TO IMPROVE IT:
There are many ways to improve it. There are 5 characteristic that differentiate each mortar from each other:
- Damage
- Radious
- Range
- Proyectile speed
- Cooldown

Just improve one or more of those characteristics.

 

Berta is for-Damage
Radius-ball park
Projectile speed and range-Lrm

All mortars seem to have occupied these characteristics like OP said.

So the Only characteristic where standard mortar can be improved is CURVE.Reduce Curve a little bit,so it can be used where other mortars are generally blocked by obstacles

 

I known I didn’t really say anything about how to improve it but here it’s why:

There are many ways the standart mortar could be improved, so how about if the devs make a poll and let the players decide on how to improve it!? It would be the first time in bb history that players have actually the power to decide the characteristics of a weapon.

I propose to make a poll like this:
(Example)
GENERAL QUESTION: Order from most important to least important the 5 characteristics that you think would improve the ballpark mortar.
5 QUESTIONS:
1 Most important:
[_] Damage
[•] Radious
[_] Range
[_] Projectile Spees
[_] Cooldown

2 Most important
[•] Damage
[_] Radious
[_] Range
[_] Projectile Spees
[_] Cooldown

And so on...

We decide the characteristics, and te devs adjust the numbers to its balanced with the other weapons.

 

The long range mortar has less curve than others if I’m not wrong. In my opinion the curve is ok how it is now.

 

I don't think standard mortar is worst than ballpark or big bertha... I tried them all on my Enfo a long time ago

 

I use mortars a lot and between them all the standard is the worst by far.

 

Do you use ballpark and standard mortar? how do you manage Mortimer tree?

 

Yup, I have ballpark, standart and bb to the Max and I ignore long range.

 

@nosesabe , can you tell me what am I missing? When I used mortars on my enfo and now, after estimate how they'd look at level 50 (epic), they looked pretty much alike

 

Excuse criticism, but why are you spelling it radious? Is that British or something?

 

I thinking standart mortar may be different than other mortars with its low cooldown. 8 seconds of course not enough, it should be 7 or 6,5. With that people can use it for better dps.

 

That'd be cool

 

I opened a thread on this topic the other day: https://forum.battlebay.net/threads/standard-mortar-strategies-does-it-need-a-buff.18528/

Summary:

 

It’s better that the other 1 slot mortars if you are accurate, or if you use it to create a fast reload setup. For example on a defender or enforcer you can do 2 standard mortars with a cannon or carronade and have no delays in weapon readiness

 

Yea if it's your only mortar it would be the best

Let's face it Std Mortar pales in comparison to LRM. While LRM has 11% less damage, it gets 40% extra distance giving me the ability to land a LRM 2x the amount of a Std Mortar... and I can consistently hit Speeders with it.

 

No, it’s not, but the OP might be Spainish speaking (they love adding Os as much as British love adding Us)

 

How to improve it: buff the damn frost launcher to two hits

 

It's also a faster projectile