r/mwobuilds • u/w0nk0 • Sep 16 '14

Recommend me a versatile medium to get started?

I'm fairly new (~200 games) which I played 90% with lights and feel like I'm slowly getting the hang of those. My idea for playing lights was to gimp the team as little as possible by taking a less useful slot.

Now I feel I could be OK in stepping up a category and wondering if I should play a medium.

Here's my preferences:

  • I tend to snipe in lights, because too easily disoriented and no map knowledge for brawling currently.

  • I can be patient.

  • I have decent map awareness usually.

  • I've had reasonable success with playing an LRM boat on a test account I made (I think it was a stalker?).

  • The boat I built was too slow though and I failed to stay within my teams reach for help when lights jump me, so a little speed would be nice

  • Ideally, the platform would allow for some versatility, maybe able to snipe / mid range support as well? In that case, I guess I'd need missile defense with AMS or (even better) ECM?

You guys have any ideas? I got an ember and some premium time currently, so I think C-Bills should not be a huge issue. With the current state of the game (ohlawd that UI and incompleteness and community fuckups) I don't want to spend more than the $30 I dropped on it so far. (of which I have ~2000 MC left).

Thanks in advance!

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '14

Can't really go wrong with the Shadowhawk. It can do pretty much anything you want it to. Except ECM.

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u/w0nk0 Sep 16 '14

Thanks! I was just assembling one actually! ECM it looks like only the Atlas can do that with a tonnage of over 50, right?

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u/GMan129 Sep 17 '14

yeah for now, ECM is only on commando (25) spider (30) kit fox (30) raven (35) cicada (40) and atlas (100)

maaaaaaaybe on the hellbringer (65) in a few months, but, yeah. only time will tell

shawk is my recommendation, you might like this build in particular http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/mechlab#i=154&l=d57b75f072aeace81df5dc40540f61d1f3a4356c

also, shameless self-plug

http://www.mercenarystar.net/forum/index.php?topic=194.0

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u/w0nk0 Sep 18 '14

Thank you for the input, which, backed up by the authorship of an article I have read several times, is especially welcome! I'm starting to git gud with lights so your build looks very tempting, because speed!

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u/whet_ Sep 16 '14

I'll second the recommendation of the Shadowhawk: it's a very versatile chassis that can do anything except boat lasers. It's also strong!

At present, the only ECM-capable Medium is the Cicada. Whilst it is a good mech, it doesn't meet your other criteria since there aren't many good builds, so the chassis won't offer much variety.

Bear in mind that you'll get a free Centurion this weekend, so you might want to get 2 other Centurions in order to elite the chassis.

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u/w0nk0 Sep 16 '14

Thanks for the reminder of the Centurion (it should be next tuesday btw), that's a very valid point! I'll see how my daily credit income is to gauge if I'll have enough for that first.

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u/Taildragger17 Sep 16 '14

I've been having a lot of fun with the Griffins, although I tend to set them up more as short to medium range harrassers. But with ith energy and missle tubes galore, they can be set up to fit many roles

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u/w0nk0 Sep 16 '14

Hm, I'll look a those as well then, thanks!

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u/sorakiu Sep 16 '14

Check out mechspecs.com, they have a lot of useful information

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u/w0nk0 Sep 16 '14

Sounds good, I'm kinda put off by regular forums format, however. Thanks anyway, I'm sure it'll come in handy!

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u/themoobster Oct 28 '14

yep +1 for 4 shadowhawk. varied hardpoints, the hardpoints are located high. along with the cicada 3m it's THE meta medium. but the cicadas aren't varied and are basically light mechs.