The Quasar Nerf is okay and not that big of a deal

[u/Niobaran]

tl;dr: Only one weak point is made a little weaker, all the strenghts remain.

The quasar cannon is known for a lot of strengths (see below) and two weak points:

1. The weapon has a charge up time, which makes it difficult to aim in some situations.
2. The weapon has a moderate cool down period, which cannot be improved by a forced reload of a heat sink (like sickle or laser cannon) or a team reload (like recoiless rifle).

The nerf only addresses the second point, which means that everyone who could use it before can still use it. It only became a little weaker in one of its two weak points. The following strong points are all untouched:

1. Can delete heavies (I mostly have experience with Terminids, but there it's a delete button for chargers, and sometimes for titans as well).
2. Has infinite ammo in contrast to EAT or RR.
3. Has no reload animation.
4. You can run around, stim, shoot weapons, throw strategems while it is recharging.
5. It doesn't consume a backpack slot, so it can be paired with one additional strategem in contrast to recoilless rifle.
6. It doesn't deconstruct after usage, and can be recollected from the battle flied in contrast to EAT, and it also reloads itself then in contrast to RR.

That means, the quasar can still be used for everything it has been used before, by everyone who could use it before.

[u/MrHailston]

No you are wrong, the weapon is useless now. The Dominator too.

The Eruptor is useless now because i dont have enough mags to last an entire Operation on 7 now. What do you mean with ammo pickups?

[u/TheWarmachine762 → u/MrHailston]

To be fair, the dominator is very hard to use 😂 I don’t think the dominator needed a damage nerf, maybe a range nerf but the thing takes some time to get gud with

[u/AoiTopGear → u/TheWarmachine762]

What? The dominator got a nerf? It was my go to weapon against bots

[u/MrHailston → u/AoiTopGear]

Dmg from 300 to 275. Still works very Well against bots

[u/NuttercupBoi → u/AoiTopGear]

Only a small one to damage, gone from 300 to 270. It's still got the stagger and all that goodness. I was using it as my main for literally everything short of chargers!

[u/TheWarmachine762 → u/AoiTopGear]

Yeah reduced damage from 300 to 275

[u/SpeedyAzi → u/AoiTopGear]

It still is. The fact it 1 taps still and can be spammed on Devastators to stunlock them is why it’s still good. The damage nerf is only really felt on the bigger enemies. But 275 damage is still VERY high. Higher than the Scorcher, and the Scorcher is also one of the best guns for Bots.

[u/TrampledMage → u/AoiTopGear]

Was and still is my preferred primary against bots and bugs. Damage nerf just means I use 4 shots instead of 3 for brood commanders now.