Lancers are good but not great.

Vlad9425

Ok so I’m going to start by saying I really like the lancer siege weapons, the AOE aspect of their attack is great and their design is awesome however I really feel they lack power compared to other siege weapons like meatbags, cold fire ballista and oil. I play a squishy build on my main and I’m easily able to withstand lancers barrages and see many other players just shrug off the damage of lancers whereas things like cold fires and meatbags seem to do significantly more damage and pose a bigger threat. I feel like there needs to be extra damage or extra effects added to these weapons to make them a more significant threat considering they are the rarest siege weapons we can get.

Please comment your thoughts below.

Destyran

The lightning one bro. There is this one guy on Xbox Na I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say his name but he is really good with them he gets u in the heat of the battle while using oils he’s great.

Vevvev

The lancers are insanely good when put over the front door of a keep in a position to fire at point blank directly on top of the battering ram. Other than that their usefulness drops off exponentially with range and their camera placement makes them really difficult to shoot down with.

Damage wise at point blank I've seen this thing almost delete tanks, but at medium to long range it's damage is miniscule due to the bloom of the shots. I found the lightning and ice ones really useful while the flame ones are just.... Meh. The lightning one especially has each shot do 8% more damage to the target after they get hit once since it applies the concussed status effect, which comes with minor vulnerability.

Also this weapon has one really horrible weakness, lag. In lag the delay between each shot means you'll struggle to kill anyone with it.

caperb

Hmm idk, is there a use to them except cluttering your bank?

In my quickslots there is space for a ballista and a resurrect camp, maybe a random oil or ram but that's it. Other space is for potions, food, port stones etc. All things which you might need to change suddenly mid fight, so for now I haven't found space to slot them.

JamieAubrey

Only thing that needs fixed is them firing in lag, I might as well be using 5 normal fire siege the time it fires them off

The whole point is to shoot 5 shots all at once not 1 after the other giving people time to walk away

zaria

Best thing about the lancers is the feeling using them

NettleCarrier

caperb wrote: »

Hmm idk, is there a use to them except cluttering your bank?

In my quickslots there is space for a ballista and a resurrect camp, maybe a random oil or ram but that's it. Other space is for potions, food, port stones etc. All things which you might need to change suddenly mid fight, so for now I haven't found space to slot them.

I don't see why you need food or port stones on your bar. Food can be eaten while "in combat" and the port stones have to be used out of combat anyway and can be done right from the inventory.

techyeshic

They actually are not bad when its not lagging. You get a few going at the same time, and its really hard to avoid.

caperb

NettleCarrier wrote: »

caperb wrote: »

Hmm idk, is there a use to them except cluttering your bank?

In my quickslots there is space for a ballista and a resurrect camp, maybe a random oil or ram but that's it. Other space is for potions, food, port stones etc. All things which you might need to change suddenly mid fight, so for now I haven't found space to slot them.

I don't see why you need food or port stones on your bar. Food can be eaten while "in combat" and the port stones have to be used out of combat anyway and can be done right from the inventory.

It was just a thing that came up in my mind. I have different quickslots pre set and none has space for the lancers.

That's why I honestly asked if there is any use for them except cluttering your bank. Because I don't know.

nukk3r

zaria wrote: »

Best thing about the lancers is the feeling using them

Burning enemy lancers is even more satisfying.