Jericho tacker-gauss fed tackler-bubbles
Lolwut? I wont discuss the Gauss because it’s an obviously good weapon for both factions, but bubbles? While bubbles are good, they insane strenght rely on high crit values, damage and rof. Although you could use them perfectly in a Tackler, you would actually be safer on any of the other 4 weapons because of their range. Tacklers are not tanky, their only way to scape is the cloak, they’re more useful at medium range dealing with interceptors, it’s their job, if you go close range with bubbles you will pretty much die instantly, you don’t have the tank capabilities of Fed or Empire gunships, and being a bubble fighter means having a lot of locks on you because you’re the closest threat.
As a Tackler player, I started with Parallax and Bubbles, because of the overheat (or cooldown) bonus Parallax has, I thought the fast overheat of Bubbles could be mitigated with it. Although it helped, it’s not useful enough, you overheat too fast, you dont have high crit because of the lack of CPU mods. Using Gravi Beamer, Ions, Gaus or Rails are much more useful Imo because of how that weapons work: Gauss for obvious reasons, it has very high projectile speed and it’s made to clean up interceptors. The lack of crits on Tacklers are compensated with its charge mechanic and the target painter, making it even more deadly. Gravi Beamers are the best support option, your enemies can barely move, and with good aim you’ll be a nightmare for anyone. Ions, because they ignore resistances and plus the Target Painter they’re another nightmare. And Rails because you can increase the RoF with RoF ammo and Iridium Heatsinks, the lack of CPUs on Tacklers are compensated with Capacitor slots, so you can be like a Gunship in Overdrive 100% of the time, and the cooldown of Rails is fast enough to compensate the fast overheat due to the high RoF.
So tl;dr: For a Tackler, any weapon is better than bubbles.
I should add that depending on the ship bonus one weapon or another would be better. For example if it has range bonus you could use Gauss from an even safer position, or if it has effectiveness bonus, Gavi Beamer could be even a better option, because the active module slots would slow more, making your combo even more annoying. Or Ions, because Target Painter would reduce the resistances even more. And for energy cost reduction, you could take advantage of it and put Rails with lots of Heatsinks, without worrying about not having any energy regen passive module.
That’s obviously just a xxxx opinion, feel free to use the weapon you like the most on any ship.
