iamthehoyden Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 •Vanguard: A new ability, Shoulder Cannon, has been added. Shoulder Cannon loads missiles over time which can be fired at an enemy target within 10 meters, depleting 1 charge with each missile launched. When all missiles have been depleted, the ability goes on cooldown for 1.5 minutes. Oh PLEASE tell me that animation is going to be as awesome as it sounds!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zunayson Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 It is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthehoyden Posted February 21, 2013 Author Share Posted February 21, 2013 It is. *dies happy* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banehammer Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Zomg I hope someone posts a youtube vid of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordel Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Anyone have the stats for this thing yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davionix Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 That was the first thing I have imagined after getting my champion's combat tech chestpiece. I can not wait to use that ability with that piece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyTheCannon Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 I figured it'd use the same animation that those quest-only missile launchers do (taking down Baron Ulgo is a good example that both sides have). Does it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthehoyden Posted February 21, 2013 Author Share Posted February 21, 2013 A poster in the general forum posted a video of all the new abilities. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=601074 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keypek Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 The ability sounds cool. But have to laugh at the thought of a trooper running within 10 meters of something and THAN pulling out a gigantic bazooka to fire missiles at point blank range. But whatever lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthehoyden Posted February 21, 2013 Author Share Posted February 21, 2013 The ability sounds cool. But have to laugh at the thought of a trooper running within 10 meters of something and THAN pulling out a gigantic bazooka to fire missiles at point blank range. But whatever lol. That's what I thought it was, but it's actually pretty small. Basically a shoulder mounted turret. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keypek Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 That's what I thought it was, but it's actually pretty small. Basically a shoulder mounted turret. Just watched the video. Yeah not as cool as it sounded. All though assuming the animation is still buggy? Seems like the shoulder mount should rotate up onto the shoulder and shoot straight? Looks dumb how it is now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herculesmrb Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Yeah, I feel as if there should be some sort of smoke trail, or at least a glow of the missile as it flies towards the target. Not just a puff of smoke from the launcher and numbers coming out of the target. It should at least look like the rockets from the bounty hunter in some fashion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanzerJagdhund Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 I can see the rockets perfectly when I use it. But I will agree that the "cannon" should be facing the front, over the shoulder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaftVaduhhh Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 This has just made tactics kinda awesome for bursting down DPS and healers in PVP. 7 stacks of off-GCD rockets in addition to your existing damage? Wow. They held back vanguard DPS in traditional terms for this patch, but shoulder cannon just shat on the notion they were getting balanced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keypek Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 This has just made tactics kinda awesome for bursting down DPS and healers in PVP. 7 stacks of off-GCD rockets in addition to your existing damage? Wow. They held back vanguard DPS in traditional terms for this patch, but shoulder cannon just shat on the notion they were getting balanced. Am definitely trying this out on PTS tonight. Going to try out several different specs and maybe fraps some of them in action. If I do will put them up to view if I get some good footage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthehoyden Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 This has just made tactics kinda awesome for bursting down DPS and healers in PVP. 7 stacks of off-GCD rockets in addition to your existing damage? Wow. They held back vanguard DPS in traditional terms for this patch, but shoulder cannon just shat on the notion they were getting balanced. Cause obviously vanguards needed more burst Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keypek Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Cause obviously vanguards needed more burst Well tactics did at least. Fire Pulse does decent damage and pulse cannon is awesome aoe but not exactly bursty and both on longer CDs. The shoulder cannon makes tactics intriguing depending on what kind of damage it does. Going to try a lot of tactics specs tonight I think. Came up with an interesting tactics/shield hybrid with ion cell also that would be interesting now that shield offhands work against more attacks.... maybe. Lots of testing needs done of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthehoyden Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 Well tactics did at least. Fire Pulse does decent damage and pulse cannon is awesome aoe but not exactly bursty and both on longer CDs. The shoulder cannon makes tactics intriguing depending on what kind of damage it does. Going to try a lot of tactics specs tonight I think. Came up with an interesting tactics/shield hybrid with ion cell also that would be interesting now that shield offhands work against more attacks.... maybe. Lots of testing needs done of course. Cool, let us know what you find. My van is pretty much assault spec through and through, and that burst is a lot of fun to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorash Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Well tactics did at least. Fire Pulse does decent damage and pulse cannon is awesome aoe but not exactly bursty and both on longer CDs. The shoulder cannon makes tactics intriguing depending on what kind of damage it does. Going to try a lot of tactics specs tonight I think. Came up with an interesting tactics/shield hybrid with ion cell also that would be interesting now that shield offhands work against more attacks.... maybe. Lots of testing needs done of course. Hopefully the shoulder cannon burst is quite a bit. The reason I dislike tactics so much is the complete lack of burst, it was just painful to slowly damage a healer over 15s or whatever, then poof he is 100% hp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keypek Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Lol didn't realize how unbelievable broken pvp is on pts. I did one match and couldn't stand it. Was literally being one shot with Project from a sage. I did have a nice 1 v 1 battle in tactics with a shadow who wasn't cheating. He kinda sucked but I killed him fairly easily. Shoulder cannon is pretty nice. spammin insta missiles every second for around 1500 damage i think. But pvp was so bad I couldn't do much more then that. My vanguard kept failing to copy so had to level one to 10 and after all that found out how broken pvp was and just lost all motivation to care after that. Might try some pve stuff with tactics tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrObtuse Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 one on hand... if I wanted missiles... I would make a mercenary... but on the other hand, this augments my favorite (aesthetically) playstyle the super combuster 31 tactics 8 plasma assault and makes it the only pure spec that compels me for the class at L55. consider me skeptical yet pleased Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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