Totally agree durandal they cannot remove quirk or some mechs will disappeared they just have to balance the system or create some new like this mech got better range with ecm or this is more stealthy than this one ... i think the main pb with mwo is creation, they have a recipe and they keep ot they don t try to improve it, Quirk was a good way but absolutly not balance it, they have to find another way to improve the difference between mechs. But it s only my opinion
That, and think about things like Stalker 4N or Jenner K, chassis that has no reason to exist without quirks. Less hardpoint, but everything identical to another cbills variant. They even have the same functional geomatry and mostly identical looks. Next step down are mechs with small variations, without quirks they are basically the same thing. This is especially true if the chassis itself is inverior. Then we have chassis that are similar to another but less impressive, like the wolverine. Oh on ecm. As long as it is working there is no reason not to take ecm on a mech that is ecm capable. At the very least it will help yourself from LRM, and it will at least help hide your own ass. Having a bigger ecm range may be a factor in things like teamplay and maybe cw. But for most regular pug games it is basically meaningless.
BAP - Could have worked like wall hacks *cough* I mean seismic, with ECM countering it, which would have been truer to table top.