About balancing in general

So, a bit tired of the grind, i turned my attention to the raids, my raid build ( now they are two ).
I, like everyone else used the greatest meanest gear i had ( cyclones ) but i was not happy… something was lacking.
So from a 15 k PS 28 tons old school behemoth ( which i’m proud of )

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My other build, has much less everything, till now a 10 k 20 tons old school heavy build.

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There still Cyclones builds doing 70-100k damage in a game, yeah it’s me, right? Probably is but why i manage to outperform my Cyclones systematic and in a consistent way with about everything else ( including rapiers, if i have a bad game with my Cyclones ?

@Горынка Упорынка

You’re right, but i’m not being stubborn, i know, i see it and acknowledge it but i still see build like this as the example to follow.

the problem here ( among many ) i just outperform two reapers at the orb with my sinus. yesterday i got more points in a raid than a 12k build with reapers. Damn

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with my sinus

@GeneralJamesZodd

The higher PS your build is, the more resistance the bots has, question, i think it’s a mute one, i lost 8 tons, 5k PS ( in a mindful manner ), i increased my damage output by a significantly margin in most cases.

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and so on…

Didn’t noticed any differences because one simple factor, your team mates are the same, the bots you face are the same.

Nowadays the adversary is your team mates, nobody will manage to do a raid alone and if someone manage to do that, soon they will take care of that.
I think the energy cost rework was a good thing, it opened options, you no longer have to choose between an engine or a module, you can have both even if either isn’t the one you wanted.
Mobility it’s important, perhaps that’s why there are many walkers in the raids, the weapons are important too, despite now we have much more choices than before, in certain maps you start already in a disadvantage.
the devs can do so much about balancing after a certain point…
I’m seeing a trend of some legendary being shit in comparison with lower rarity weapons, yes they may be older legendary but it can say a lot about new ones and the way they will go.
I could go, i can go to an higher PS weapon, another legendary, but that arms race, usually nobody wins