TESTING MY SHOOTER

Hey y'all!

As many of you know, my main boat is the speeder (and it will remain) but last week I've decided to switch to the shooter.

Setup:
Flare or Grenade - explosive canon - big torpedo - railgun - mine

 

What do you think its better for EC combo? Flare or grenade?

 

I almost always stick a flare on my shooter. I get tired of speeders running from me when I get them in my sites.

 

Killer beats in crude awakenings... Anyway, good skill to kill @YSL & so much easier with a healer close by while you deal damage, but sadly no where near as quick as a nitro packed speeder.

 

This is me reconsidering bring whether I want to level up the flares I've been given. I think I have 6 now (rare). On one hand I hate donating a slot to slow damage. It's not really how my combat style works. On the other hand... "pesky bandage speeders" LOL and it'd combine with burn damage perks for some amount of DPS boost.

 

Lol I never save up so now when I need a combo- I cant get anything

 

I have saved nearly everything -- even my very first epic... a rudder! The downside is that all of my pearls have gone to inventory slots and I often end up upgrading something simply to free up inventory space. I suspect my path is better in the long-term but worse in the short-term. It sure is handy, though, to realize you need to adjust your boat and just go dig in your inventory for the right piece. For instance, when I hit Mark5 I'm going to have an R30 Railgun sitting there just waiting to go in that slot. When I finally retired my standard cannon there were both blast and explosive cannons waiting to go.

Of course the bane of my existence is blue parts since the only place to get them is from store refreshes and then dribs & drabs here & there.

 

Lol but as a speeder I only need two weapons but i regret scrapping other items.

 

I just realized why I squirrel stuff away. I like to play around with spreadsheets and metas. For that I'm going to need all the toys to play with. I fully expect to level up all the boats and all the weapons (over time). One day I'm going to be looking at some spreadsheet I made thinking, "No. That can't really be. If you combine this and that and the other thing it'd really do that?" Then Rovio will have to nerf something ASAP

 

It will take a long time to do that. Hopefully are not waiting to uplevel all the legenaries as that will take a long time. I am a noob so I make it up as I go along.

 

Hey give me ur player tag, I want to see ur account as I rarely ever see anyone reach master with mk3 apart from one friend- who is not playing anymore.

 

I did not reach master at M3. I got to about 1250 and pulled the plug. I'm at M4 now and approaching it again.

Tag: #PGHDZLRR

My current gear loadout is pretty similar to the M3 except remove the blast and ex cannons and replace with standard cannon. Remove shield and replace with second turbo. Obviously, everything was much lower level (except my trusty epic turbo LOL).

Regarding legendaries... I'll be surprised if I ever see one so I'm not real worried about leveling up legendaries right now. Right now my stuff is rare so it's not all that painful to have multiple gear loadouts. I don't have anywhere near enough epics to bother leveling one up. I'll be forced to choose.. .but later.

 

Well when u do get to master u might see trying to lift a legendary around. Second turbo- wouldnt that drastically reduce ur life.

 

There came two points in my infamy where the second turbo was WAY more valuable than anything else I could put there.

At the lower end, the opposing captains are just so poor at aiming... frequently not even trying to lead... that 1.52 speed and keeping your course perpendicular to them is enough to generate nearly infinite misses. 1.52 is also fast enough to get out of virtually all mortar situations unscathed.

At the higher end the value was different. There captains do aim and they do it well. But you're still making it a lot harder for them and every miss generated was more damage than a big shield. Even ONE miss made it worthwhile. Certainly two misses did. I was routinely getting popped for half my health on a non-crit. Crits and big torps were one-shot land. The only way to survive was to not get hit. Now I'm in a M4 instead of a M3 facing similar opponents but the big shield is adding to a larger base and my guns are taking bigger bites out of them. The idea that I might absorb a few hits is sort of feasible... a few. Honestly, at this level of being overmatched there are very few good options. It's mostly trade-offs in bad options.

 

Lol my speeder only does 1.25 speed- I might put in a second turbo but I dont want to sacrifice 1000 life

 

But as a carroande speeder- I might go further having all shields but 3 nitros or something.

 

*grin* And try to imagine how surprised all those pesky little speeder were when they ran into me. I'm sure most of them saw me as a juicy, low HP target -- easy pickings. No, I'm not a mortar boat and I AM going to hurt you badly at mid to close range. The coup-de-grace was that once they engaged up close, getting away was nearly impossible with the dual turbo config. Good times

 

Once I get a second turbo I would try that.