Trident nerf? I laugh at Trident nerf! Bwahahaha

In the thread on silver payouts I posted my recent damage and I've made some of my highest damage matches since the nerf running my lvl12 Mk1 Tridents. I've noticed they don't splash through walls as well on Castle and I have to be a little more accurate, but still devastating, awesome(cheap) weapons. I envy your Tempests though. I gotta hide from them, and so cool looking.

Has the nerf even been implemented yet?

Don’t think so. 

Watch out for my Nashorn Fury. She's a beast at kill steeling. There's something incredibly fun with the one shot blam style of play every now and again.

I run the poor version of that.  

Funny that you say that.
I used to run a Tempest fury when tempests were introduced. With the meta shifting to HP/stealth/purple shields the tempests just got left behind. If they were marginal to OK at release than they would have to be sub par today.

I put them on the falcon (ember in the middle) because that was my best available heavy option.
They are sort of OK for area suppression (fury way better), annoyance from distance and also taking pop shots from the distance when there isn’t much time left and cant get close enough to engage the target.

Still new to the falcon but in a brawl if it goes fangs out with tempests it dies really fast. I’d rather have something that unloads as fast as possible when he brawls.

Tempests need a buff. That would supress the tridents. But then mid and longish range would dominate.

IIRC, the nerf to the Trident is only a splash radius nerf. Pretty sure the damage is being left alone. Just make sure your aim is good, and Tridents should be good as they are now.

Lol, hear that. Eventually, I’ll have a couple of Exo in the fangs, but too much to upgrade first. Until then, tempest will occasionally be available for annoyance and suppression. Also fun to launch at center Yaman beacon, tempests a-blazing just in time to fangs in on landing and ember lights up. And the graphics of jumping tempest fire is almost worth the price of admission all by itself. 

I might be in the minority, but cheap to get or not tridents were borderline cheating, dragoon like damage plus splash? 20m was too much, tulumbas splash is actually very good and usable so tridents will still be good with that splash radius, you just have to aim now instead of firing backwards and still splashing them "its an exageration I know" On tempests I think avengers in general are more useful but tempests have their perks, theres few weapons with over 600m range that are even remotely viable.

Avengers are relatively cheap (64m) to get to 12 and the most versatile brawler/MR heavy weapon.

Tridents at 32m to 12 were severely outperforming Dragoons which cost 170m to get to 12. A simple nerf to the splash makes the weapon just as deadly in a skilled pilot hands and less noob-friendly.

You should have been around in the old TTFury days. I almost quit back then. Only time I was ever more frustrated than the Spectre Shocktrain days. Games were pretty boring then.

I remember getting 1 salvo killed without ever seeing where the fire came from cause it was so far away!

Anyway, a lot of back and forth in this thread. I don't mean to disparage the Trident. It is, and will continue to be, a very good weapon. But, guys like me, well, I didn't get to run a TT Fury until very recently, so I feel bummed out about the upcoming nerf and the soon to come Avalanche. I started this because I realized that I still hadn't run the Tempest Fury yet, despite getting chewed up by plenty in my time. I'm really liking this build, despite my lateness to it. Heck, I even had a silly Bulwark try to challenge me. I guess he got tired of me chewing away at him and his buddies on Yam. He walked right up to me and my Tempests riddled him. Silly boy!

There's also comparison to Avengers, but there's one thing that Tempests have over Avengers other than range or damage per shot, and that's time. Yes, reload is the same, but if you play a Tempest build right, you should have plenty of time to reload behind cover. Whereas, whenever I play my Leadhose builds, either Lance or Nat, that 10s reload feels like an eternity because I'm in brawling range of tons of high DPS weapons.

Don't sell the Tempests short. They're still viable, and remember the old War Robots axiom. 1 weapon = meh. 2 weapons = good. 3 weapons = very good. 4 weapons = uber powerful. 8 weapons = well you get the idea.

I treat the Tridents like tank cannon (in fact, I've got one on my Leo because it looks really tanky) and aim for direct hits as much as possible. Splash damage is one of those nebulous things that I don't tend to count on but it's a nice side effect. I guess that's why I'm less bugged about a splash nerf.

Trust me, when i started playing 3 years ago, TT Furies ruled the roast. They had 30m splash, and there was nothing to counter them. No dash, no stealth, and Anciles were busted. Also, all bots were super slow. Only way pros killed one was to go in with a well timed slow-poke Tulumbas Griffin, and jump in. Try that on a large map like Canyon with no good cover, and red team has 2-3 TT Furies with good cross fire.

Tridents are cheap, and super fast to upgrade. They are the weapon of choice for krill. Dragoons are for the hoity toity, and those weapons hit like a truck. Nerfing it would leave the underclass without a good midrange option, as there's no way I'm gonna spend 3 months to level 3 Dragoons, and 6 for MK2. All the other component options are in the same tier, meaning all the upgrade times are TOO DAM HIGH! (like viper)

There's so many options to counter it, i can't believe people are still complaining about it like it's 2016. Anciles, dash, stealth, etc. Also, Tank bots, Bulwark, invincible shields, etc.