Clan War Specialist By Pat Willis#224534

During Clan Wars we usually see a bunch of specialist positions being utilized to keep losses to a minimum, and throw off the other clan when attacking. The most successful of these that I have personally observed are the weight class specialists. Those specialists make you fight their way, with their tonnage, and usually with their full killer arsenal strewn across only a handful of mechas. Not to mention any tonnage specific equipment toys they may be saving or have in reserves. Those fights unless you have a highly significant level differential are anyone's guess when they happen.

On the other end of the war specialist spectrum we have the weapon specialist. No matter if it's fire, ice, missile, projectile, or laser, you wanna claim king of a weapon type well step right up and test your mettle. Oh yeah and possibly loose big in ways you never saw coming before. Why? Because you aren't the only one packing that weapon type, or doing that kind of damage.

Weapon specialists usually get percentage based damage extensions based on weapon type, above and beyond stat modification or weapon augmentation. So if you have your mecha rocking out with equipment, mecha set up, and basic build stats for Ice and you take an Ice specialist position, you could whoop some major ass, well in theory anyways.

See this specialist position has more flaws to it than many realize. For starters we all have the various weapon types in one form or another in our hangers on our mechas. So you are taking one hell of a gamble that you have bigger weapons, at higher ratings on your profile than I do. Sometimes that's right and an easy win. Sometimes it is very fatally an error of judgement.

To illustrate my point, last CW out I ran into a laser specialist. I happen to like lasers as a weapon and make most my mechas pack a few just in case. I have a stat rating of 84 to my laser damage which allows me 31.33% damage with ALL laser weapons. On top of that I was running the X9 potential damage Fext mecha, who is a laser bonus wielder, and equipment to help max out these mods, as well as damage. The end result was insane. Up to you on if you want to go for weapon specialist positions, but in weapon specialist it is more likely to work against you rather than for you.


Submitted by Pat Willis#224534