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MechWarrior Online (2013)

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The Deathwish is one of the buffed mechs this patch; now sporting a Heavy Medium Laser heat scale limit that allows it to now fire 5 Heavy Medium Lasers instead of 4. The Deathwish, unlike other hunchbacks, sports no jump jets, which for the longest time worked against it and it's hardpoint placements, of which 4 energy were in the arms, 1 in the torso, and 1 ballistic in the other torso. We have two tests, one with max engine, and the other with maximum amount of heat sinks, both go beyond 81KPH, and both are able to fire 2 alphas before overheating, however, through testing I've found the more cooling to help it greatly since the Heavy Mediums are it's main source of damage, and having good cooling helps with this.

I still don't think this is a mech you should regularly play, however with recent changes to regular clan Medium Lasers, it might feel alot better than it actually is. The main issue with this mech, is often times you have to fully expose to shoot all your weapons, this, in combination with the squishy chassis, tends to make you feel even more vulnerable and really plays into the role of "Glass Cannon", as some people have put it for the more closer ranged variants of this mech. If there was one thing I'd add, it'd be more CT armor, or more armor across all torsos. The other issue is the amount of choices you have in the skill tree. Through playing I've come to find that taking less cooldown and taking the new skill tree nodes for overheat damage helped greatly, and speed tweak was always taken, as having speed is better than having armor if applicable, even in a mech without jump jets. Heat containment is an absolute must, and, if you really feel it, you can swap the few cooldown nodes for cool run on the Cooling build, as this will help your sustained DPS greatly, for those who are still having trouble managing their heat.

Recommended: No

Difficulty of Piloting: High

Expenses: 4-6+ Million Cbills to Refit, on top of Purchase of Mech

Role: Short range skirmisher

Builds: https://mwo.nav-alpha.com/mechlab?b=aac6c6a6_HBK-IIC-DW (Cooling)

https://mwo.nav-alpha.com/mechlab?b=a75c39dc_HBK-IIC-DW (Speed)

Skill Tree: a5f5f8faf744f8ac72ea400009024f4224c5e0000802410512fd39420201c

0:00 Speed Build

7:13 Cooling(DHS) Build

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