Change focus of my Components?

Shocktrain Rog might be interesting

I got both Scourges from event only to realize I have nothing to run them on. I haven’t even bothered upgrading the 2nd one because I can’t think of an effective enough setup on a bot with 2 med slots.

I’ve been running one of them with a Zeus and Gekko on a Golem and it’s actually really fun and a decently effective setup.

For a little while, a few month ago, I was running a Molot T/Gekko Rhino as a counter sniper and I thought about trying that with Scourge/Gekk or Scourge/Molot but since the Scourge takes a couple seconds of lock to fire, it doesn’t seem like it would work too well. I just feel like I have no use for a second one.

I’m telling you this because it sucks having 2 of them and having no use for it. I don’t want you or anyone else to use resources on them and end up feeling the way I do about them do, so just consider that.

Haechi is freakin expensive. Like what 8:1 in terms of trade in. Whereas weapons are less than 2. So as far as bang for your buck you can get multiple weapons for what it cost a bot. For instance a Scourge costs you just under 5000 gold taking the daily deals for 1430 gold. Taking the best 360 deals (not counting that one 1430 component deal) for Haechi is I think 700 gold and that would cost you 27k gold total. That is 5 Scourges. Probably 5 Shocktrains and probably 5 Embers. Mix them up and that's alot of new weapons.

I am going for the Haechi as I want it but keeping it in perspective.

Save your WSP for a hydra Doc.

I have a hydra Fujin ready and waiting for the second hangar release. I took it out for a spin today with level 7 hydras...almost fell asleep...

The cut off is around 5800 components. I'll let everybody do the remaining component cost math on that. 

I voted for Haechi but think the Ember is a solid choice if you don't have as many resources. Also you can put one Ember on a Leo, Lance, Golem and even throw only one on a Carny along with a Thunder and be effective I think. I would think using only 1 Shocktrain might not be as effective (deadly) as one Ember. In test I always ran 3 Shocktrains on a Haechi or 2 Shocktrains on the hoverbot. I would just feel weird only running one Shocktrain.

Note: Someone in the forum said they knew someone with inside info that the Ember was going to be the Christmas task list prize. Keep that in mind. I get a feeling, if it's like last time that maybe we can earn one or two Embers plus a bot like hoverbot or the self-destructo-bot.  I might have to grind it out again.

My favorite golem is a zeus/scouge/geko golem. If you have the kit around give it a try.  The scourge is great to corner shoot inbound enemies with, increasing damage as they close tends to put more hurt on than one would suspect. 

I think it depends of your definition of enjoyment.  I have no special weapons or bots in my hangar so I don't know what it feels like to use them.  I can say that i've been on the receiving end of all of them but I keep telling myself its just a game that I play on my phone.  I spent weeks saving enough AU to purchase a lancelot and felt like I was king of the world when I finally used it in battle.  I dream of obtaining an Haechi and someday I will.  But I'm NOT going to spend ridiculious amounts of money to do it.

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So, somewhat on topic, I won a Bulgasari on a contest, plus have one Scourge from the event. (Didn't have time to finish the 2nd Scourge.) The Scourge is not maxed yet, but it seems I do better with Tarans or Orkans on the Bulg rather then the Scourge. I would be curious if getting two more Scourges would ever be worth it or if I should run 1 Scourge and two Tarans/Orkans or do all three Tarans/Orkans.

Those are some great weapons for knife fighting hanger. And Zeus for the current meta, as it's useful for both Ancilot frontal shielding and the soft underbelly of Kbots. 

I feel Ember is kinda weak, and really only good against bad players and a slow herd of Ancilots at a beacon  who can't get out of the way. I've never had too much problem killing Ember users. Ember users will tell you their weaknesses, so if you pay attention. 

I don't see many all Taran pilots. I agree, that Tarans do much better dmg overall than Orkans, but not many know how to handle the shield bots like Ancilots. My hanger was pretty much Taran that I took over from a clanmate, as it had only one set of Orkans and no midrange. I had to level more sets of Orkans and a set of RDB for myself, since it's very tough using 5 brawlers with only 1 DB setup. I had to mix my Level 11 Orkan with Level 5 Orkans otherwise putting both stock Orkans on one bot in the upper tiers is suicide. 

I like the variable dmg weapons like the Molot because the current maps are too different. You don't want to stuck with Treb Fury on say Moon. But Molots are great knife-figthers as my underleveled Level 9 Tempest/Molot bot can take down an unsuspecting L12 Ancilot. I've faced max Scourges, and they sting when you get too close. I haven't looked at the math and don't own any, but would like to try them out for the same reason. The difference is that the ballistic weapons will bypass small shields, while the Scourge will hit only the central shield and not bypass it. So it's good or bad depending on how you want to use it, the situation, etc. So my Molot/Tempest does really good on maps like Yamantau of course, but it also does really good on Moon. Powerplant, not so much since there is too much cover. On Moon, I can usually get them under the tunnel, so it's partly luck too if they don't get out of my way. 

Tempest is a fun weapon too. I didn't like it at first, I still think it's kinda weak at long range unless you max it to Level 12. But once I found out how good it was at knife-fighting (very specific scenarios, not as good as Taran), then it became more fun to use Tempest builds. Scourge works very similar, plus it can go through Ancile and get all the Kbots. Despite its reputation as a long range weapon, i consider it a jack-of-all trades kinda weapon.

Actually, my point in that post was that even little skilled/new pilots are able to instantly improve their performance with these bots. I have huge respect for skilled pilots and have paid dearly many times for underestimating them even when they were running mechs that should have little threat to mine. 100% agreed on the scary good.

MY apologies for not expressing it clearly.

Actually a very good and important point Ezekielcrow.
It's as hard as a thumb scan to have it all.
Skill and awareness can't be bought but earned.
This is why I try to post as many pointers as possible to help those that want to improve their skills in a legitimate fashion.
It's plain as day to the vets who has paid their dues and who has paid for a hanger on the battle field.
My hope is those that want to improve are not so discouraged by wallet warriors that they give up entirely.
These P2W players can be beat with skill and a hanger that is well understood to counter the current meta (except shocktrain)

Thanks for all the input everyone! Lots of good discussions here. Even though the votes seem to favour the Haechi, I think I'll be focusing on the shocktrain. frunobulax, you have a very good point. If I load up 3 shocktrains on my Bulg, that would be seriously OP. I could stay at the 500m range, and unlike say 3 shocktrains on a Haechi, I'd be resistant to snipers and zeus builds, and just have to watch out for RDBs, which are a breeze to dodge in a Bulg at 500m (as long as I see them coming of course). Ugh, it's gonna take forever to get one schocktrain via components...but, with the Christmas season upon us, I just don' have an extra $300 to buy 3 shocktrains - and even if I did, I wouldn't spend that much on this game!

I do like the idea of running an ember Golem though, so I'll be keeping an eye out for any combos that feature both shocktrain and ember together - don't know if I've ever seen them together or not though.