Buying assault mech any reccomendations

Buying an assault mech wanted some reccomendations

 

I would go with Ilya Maulermets, er Mauler. To me it is one of the best Assaults out there. Great hard points and only IS mech that can boat 4x lbx-10's.

 

Atlas for brawling/tanking and Direwolf for jump capable dakka. Of the others I see a lot of Maulers as they're newer and frequent King Crabs.

 

Maulers and Stalkers.

 

Of course resizing is reducing the size of the awesome and warhawk but ...

 

What playstyle are you after? PUG? Group? 12-man?

Best allround choice imo is the Warhawk. Fast, well armed and decently armored. It plays like a slow heavy and will not give you the frustration the Direwolf, Atlas and King Crab will in PUG-world.

 

Possibly once its resized as its having the largest size decrease but those hitboxes/ weapon locations are fairly bad too. Shoot one side torso and you can destroy most of its weaponry.

 

Mauler and banshee are the two best assaults in game. Mauler is a phenomenal ballistics platform. Banshee is faster than most and can bring similarly awesome ballistic loadouts but also laser vomit loadouts. Atlas is only good because of its excessive structure quirks. Stalkers are great, but not as good as banshees. King crab is basically a worse mauler. Battlemaster can fill almost same role as banshee, its just lighter so less armor but faster. Other assaults aren't honestly worth mentioning. Clans are too expensive and just not as good.

 

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Oh how tastes differ,... The only Mauler I like is the 6LL version. I despise the Banshees for being lumbering enemy fire magnets, just like King Crabs and Atlai. I find Battlemasters nigh useless, similar to Zeus' but tend to enjoy playing the Stalker. Overall, clan assaults, whilst being very expensive, are many times over better than their IS counterparts

 

The banshee is one of the most durable mechs in the game. Humanoid hitboxes are good anyway. But with enormous arms and evenly sized CT and STs it is a phenomenal tank. Extremely good at rolling damage and is capable of builds like 5 lgpls while still going at least 68 kph with plenty of heatsinks. It is equally as good with a large standard engine as it is with an XL. Also has freakishly high mounts so can compete with the likes of the stalker for peak snipers. In fact it can run 5 erll at near eye level, with a std 340. So it is faster, better armored, and has comparably high mounts to a stalker.

Arguably the worst build for a mauler would be something only taking advantage of the sub par arm mounts. They're low and far apart. I'm not quite sure how you could dislike 4 uac5, 5 ac5, 2 ac20, 2 gauss, 6 ac2, 2 ac2+4ac5, etc. It is thee most versatile ballistic assault. Also with humanoid hitboxes it is more survivable than a king crab or stalker so other than speed there is no downside to a mauler. Also has similarly large arms to the banshee so if you are running a brawler loadout (it is capable of many of the sort) you can torso twist extremely well.

I am a lover of the stalker but it is pretty much a 2 trick pony (unless you are one of the lrm people). You can either vomit LL or LPL both of which a banshee can very arguably do better, or you can run an srm+ laser brawler. The 5 srm6, 4 mlas 5m really has no counterpart atm. A mauler could run 2 ac20, 4 srm4 or something similar and field a very similar alpha with a bit more pinpoint. But as far as only srms that is the one role the stalker can fill better than almost any other mech in game. Soon the Archer will crush that role too though (not an assault so it isn't pertinent to the topic at hand, but will pretty much be able to trounce the stalker as far as SRM boating is concerned, and any other mech for that matter lel)

Preference is still at hand though. So if you prefer the stalker, have fun. I was just posting the two most viable assault mechs that can fill ALOT of roles very well.

As far as the clan vs is debacle. In mwo, right now, innersphere assaults are superior. A direwolf simply cannot out do a mauler. I'm not about to get into thread spam over it. But you'd be hard pressed to find any mech that can beat a 4 uac5 mauler, the dang thing has about 20 sustained DPS. The daishi can field some great sniper builds or high alpha loadouts. But it has alot more weaknesses than a mauler. 1v1 a dire may be able to edge out most wins, but it doesn't face multiple opponents as well and can't swap engines so it is much more limited on loadouts. Not to mention all the brawler builds the mauler can fit that the dire can't even begin to tango with. The warhawk is a similar story vs the banshee, it can't carry as heavy of loadouts and the banshee is more survivable. Even a bmaster is better than a warhawk, but I guess that shouldn't say much because a bmaster is better than ALOT of mechs.

The Kodiak may turn the tables quite a bit, but we will see for how long with the proposed heat changes and its hitboxes, how high multiple ballistics end up being, etc.

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Fixed multiple post bs. (I'm on mobile)

 

^Hat trick post!!!^

 

Maulers for sure. I had banshees, hated them and sold, battlemaster, hated and sold, zeus, meh... But damn do I enjoy my maulers! All of mine are mastered and I always have fun in them

 

Want an easy 1k PUG match murdertrain?




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Oh chattahah. You haven't ascended to XL banshees yet? They reveal the true potential of the platform.







Now go, be free from the restraints of a std engine life. But seriously, maybe that's why all of the people in this thread have hated on banshees. They truly are a top performing assault, pretty much unmatched in their capabilities. Hell, find another assault that can effectively mount 5+ large pulse. Oh yeah, there isn't one (mauler and boars head can do it but restricted to lower mounts and slower mechs).

Also of note is how often the banshee is used in competitive matches or even regular queue by all the top groups. I'd say the banshee is somewhat of an icon of BMMU also hahaha.

 

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If you don't have the Atlas at this point, you're doing it wrong.

Mauler and King Crabs next, everything else to preference.

 

Problem is that Atlas are only so-so mech. You basically have the DDC, and maybe the S.

Mauler is more stable and variated.

KGC is great output, but they are all too similar.

I would go for Stalker, though some like battlemaster. Have to say the laser/SRM combo is fun though.

 

K is still a decent variant. Double AMS is always fun. Also 4 LpLs and an AC/20. They are A Lot Tankier and somehow more maneuverable than a Stalker.

Mauler is the *Safe* buy, but you'll feel like a badass when you're behind the Reins of an Atlas.