I would drop 2 lasers from each arm, and add 4 heat sinks Could drop one heat sink for an extra ton of MG ammo, since the MGs are heat neutral you might use them a lot.
Yup, in my nova tests, anything more than 8erml's had way too many diminishing returns. Greater DHS is more important than more erml's.
It was more of a theory craft than anything, but it's good to hear that 12ML is just too hot. Means a bit of balance, ya?
It seems like if a player wanted an alpha backstab monster, they were going with 12 ersl's. 8 erml's seemd the sweetspot to go 4/4 firing with the extra dhs. In fact, I noticed my overheating way more with 8erml + 4MG (which loses 4DHS to pick up the MGs). Going 12 erml's with the same DHS as what you'd have with 8erml+4MG would be tough to play, to say the least.
Yeah ended up running 6 ERML/4MG or 12 ERSL in lance yesterday but I didn't GXP my mechs up. I found myself dogfighting a lot so the ability to continuously fire while keeping people off the assaults in lance just seemed more important. I tried MPL but just not impressed with them overall as the beam difference is negligible.
Excellent build. At least, as soon as I got double basics. Otherwise quite hot. For leveling I used the 6x cERSL, 6x cERML version. Never though I would fall in love with the Nova. I run it like this:
