Viability of Carronade on shooter

I run a fire bomb, snipers, ex-cannon, mine setup - which I feel is working reasonably well given the equipment I got.
However, yesterday I got my 4th epic carronade. The only other epics I have duplicate of are T3 sniper, and T2 mine.

I don't really feel a carronade fits my setup, but it's dumb to ignore the only T4 epic I've been given. I clearly can't pick what the RNG gives me and go for my dream setup.
I've been trying to get a feel for how it's in use on a shooter, but it's basically worthless at my level until I upgrade it quite a bit (everybody is grokking at least 25 defence points).

So, before I invest a few metric hectotons of epic and rare parts to level up this bad boy just to get a sense of it's usefulness, is it worth it? Are carronades viable on a shooter?

(I'm captain level 33, infamy yo-yo-ing somewhere between 3000 and 3500 inf, Shooter MK5)

 

A carronade probably wouldn't fit!

Your 2 snipers and explosive cannon already gives you a great advantage on close range battles. If you had some torpedoes or mortars it could be great as a situational "if a speeder comes by" type of weapon but I feel you current setup is great and has no room for it

 

Bittersteel runs one even though most of his items are longer range based.
Can't be that bad. I have speeders come close to me often. Also 1v1s at the end of the game tend to be close range

 

Epic carronade is great at high level and I've seen shooters do well with it. That said, I do agree with @Joeyaa (for the first time?) because it's kind of a bad fit in your setup. If you had missiles + big torp + railgun and needed something to fire at close range, it would be a great choice.

 

Because he uses missles, big berta and railgun which won't do much to a close range speeder. But with his carronade and sniper he has something for them

 

i suggest to replace mine with carronade if you have no other better reds. Do you think you will hit more with mine or with carronade for similar distance?

 

IV epic carronade with 4 rare perks will hit 160x6 at swift lvl 22. It is about 135x6=810 dmg with 5.6 sec cd to a standard mk5 shooter with no def perks (and even more to other ships except defenders). At 3000+ fights are going in melee range often enough because of speeders so it would be great to have a weapon that can deal decent damage and slow with very low cd. So u can easily swap one sniper with carronade imo.
And u will also be happy to have that carronade if u decide to play speeder.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if mine is the weapon I have the most kills with, I got them pretty early at ~800 inf I think, and they were pretty awesome while climbing the inf ladder. Problem now is that T2E mine damage output (~2000 dmg) isn't that great compared to unfriends health, It barely dents one of those crazy 12000+ hp defenders for example.

If I could chose I would probably go for a T4E mine over a T4E carronade any day of the week.

But I think @Joeyaa, @Miathan and others here are right, with 2 snipers and an ex-cannon I already hit close range targets pretty hard. A fast reloading carronade wouldn't give me that much extra, even if it's an awesome T4.

Thanks, real life damage numbers really help That's about what my ex-cannon does (with way longer reload ofc). Also, if I'm really lucky I score a crit for 1000-1200 with my snipers. So maybe the gain for T4E carronade here isn't worth it for me.

I have vague plan of playing an enforcer somewhere down the line. Maybe I'll just save it for that, a T4 carronade could be pretty sweet on a future MK6 enforcer

 

Y'all are forgetting bittersteel who rocks an epic carro

 

Not me. I pointed that out (second reply)

 

Oh you did? Sorry I didn't read the whole thread XD

 

I like it because it's a good close range weapon for speeders that come too close and exploit my turret speed. But a big factor in why I use it is that it is my highest tiered and rarity weapon. If I had other epic t5 options, say, another sniper, I'd probably use another sniper.