Standard Mortar Strategies - does it need a buff?

YerJokinArnYer · 13 Jun 2018

envylife said: ↑

After a year of accumulating, very, very, slowly, 10 Legendary pieces I finally got to combine them... into a Standard Mortar. That was literally the last weapon on my want list for 6 simple reasons:

1. Mortars are unused in end game since ships all outrun them.
2. LRM has longer range, Ballpark and Big Berta have same range
3. Ballpark and Big Berta have larger AoE
4. Big Berta issues more damage.
5. Projectile speed is no better.
6. LRM and Ballpark have same cool down. Training tree offers 10% reduction, but that only saves 1 second, whereas (the primary advantage Standard Canon has over all other canons is substantially less cool down).

In other words Standard Mortar has no advantage over any other mortar that makes it useful, and as a result it's at the bottom of the weapon usage stats. Did the designers forget about this one?

For lack of any ideas I equipped it with 3 freeze damage perks giving it a 22% boost. Maybe it has use on an Enforcer with a Frost Blaster or Frost Canon, but outside of that I'm at a loss. How do you guys use it?
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A few months ago, I had originally incorrectly assumed that standard mortar was the equivalent of standard cannon - ie the other mortars had better stats than it in some areas but it had a faster cooldown than them all. I was surprised to find this wasn’t the case.

I do believe that it needs its own specific cooldown training, but that it would need to be appropriately placed in the mortar crew training, as mortars as too spammed at low levels. So perhaps somewhere in the 3rd tier of the training tree (levels 15 to 19j would be appropriate.

Anyway, I hope you get better luck with your next legendary.

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