Hello there,
I've spent the last days on vedeena checking on everything that's been updated, and I'm very excited about the changes you've made ! I love everything about the implants, amors, and PA.
So back to topic, I tested all Heavy guns with various builds and I see the ionic canon as BiS and, by far, way above the other weapons, even higher TL ones.
The damage is insanely high, the RoF is also very high, 12 shots per mag and a pretty fast reload time. I don't see any weakness expect very long range sniping.
If we consider EoF for a moment, which is 2 tech level higher, and would fit in the same "low tech CQB" category, we can see it peforms very poorly compared to the ionic canon.
Ther other HC rare weapons seems to scale pretty well from their non-rare lower tier ones, and are between each others pretty balanced DPS-wise. Except for the ionic.
What I'm suggesting here is a straight up nerf in damage output. The RoF (frequency) and magazine size seems fitting and make it fun to use. basically you want to get a good aim timing and then unload all the bullets in a short time frame. Pretty exciting gameplay. But the damage output has to be nerfed. By reducing by a fair amount the damage per single shot, we could put it in par with other weapons.
Also, considering the very low requirement to be used, it definately need to see its alpha damage rebalanced.
On a seoncond note, I would love to see the EoF be a competitive weapon ! It's always been a pretty bad weapon compared to others even though the looksof it is great !
Being a single shot weapon with a huge mag and a decent freq, this one could be a serious contender in the lowtech class. Yet it lack the firepower to really do something. A single shot of devo equals 3.5 shots of EoF in alpha damage. and a 5second burst of ionic canon equals 3x times the damage output of the EoF in teh same bracket of time.
Tested on different type of armors, the numbers remain the same, ionic canon is way above the other HC non aoe weapons. And EoF needs a little bit of love (just a little bit of extra alpha)!