Talk:Vortek Rotary/@comment-101.50.125.204-20151009140609/@comment-220.239.97.47-20180617131116

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To the guy think the weapon is OP just because it has highest DPS on paper: I seriously doubt your ESF experience on the battlefield against pro fighter players. It is not the ground vehicle battle or shooting duck in VR room we talking about. The DPS meaning NOTHING when your projects keep MISSING the target.

Most NC pilots I know consider M18 Mosquito a most challange opponent among other ESF loadout. Simply because it has fastest ROF with near double rounds per magzine against other Rotary nose gun and Mosquito pilot can exploit its speed advantage for close engagement (For compensating M18's low projects velocity). Yes, M18 has least damage but with fully upgraded magzine it still capable to kill single ESF before reload. When I ask them about their nose gun choice, overwhelming answers from them are NC's default weapon instead of NC rotary (Higher project velocity require less aim lead)."

The comments these people made were probably more valid back then but since then, there have been massive nerfs to all rotaries and while it was pretty well proportionate it actually excascubated the floors of the NC rotary which was, the fact that it's damage per clip isn't very good.

If anybody still doesn't understand why the reaver is concidered the worst of the three is that imagine you have three ESF's, I'll explain firstly the scythe has 52% same pixels to shoot at in front profile so if you don't get the jump on him he'll melt you unless you can aim at a half the size box, at that is an awkwardly shaped triangle and hes likely to just sit at a distance and comfortably chip at you while you probably miss all your shots. Then you have the mosquito with the rotary, he's got double the ammunition, where it counts and a slightly smaller hitbox (not nearly as hard to miss as the scythe), 7200 damage maximum per clip in a mossie if 100% shots land in <100m compared to 6480 per same reaver clip, so lets assume a fully certed ESF with 3300 health and 1075 potential bonus from fire suppression. You pretty much need to land 70% of your clip to kill, so this might mean the mosquito can engage from a little further out or such and such you get the picture. Still not terrible to be in a reaver but its probably not on the same level as the scythe or the mossie. Reloading for a second clip would indeed add 2.25 seconds to your TTK speed, which if you could finish in one clip at about 50~60% hits landed is roughly about 3~4 seconds.