Rockets need fixing

[Turantula]

I know there's a thread about it already, and I don't care if its the hundredth one; if people can post over and over again about DLC we can post about this. Rockets A: Need a buff to damage, how is the most powerful weapon in every other game the weakest in this one? B: The XP doesn't work for all of them as someone has already posted. and C: The mass cannon, the radius of the cluster needs to be smaller, if I can hit and enemy spot on with a ground pounder and it gets hits with the cluster, I should be able to do the same with this rocket launcher. This is not a PVP rant as the only one I use there is the bonfire, and it works quite well, but its hard to enjoy using the weapon in the PVE world when they are not functioning properly.

Edit: Sorry I meant the rebounder cannon not the mass cannon as that one is detonated manually, but I don't get any weapon XP using the mass cannon.

[Malgiliath]

Agree totally.

Effectively an rpg, these weapons should be near enough one hit kills, many times I have had to use four or five launches at riflemen or dark matter and still they don't die.

Surely if a sniper rifle can headshot and one hit kill, then surely a rocket into a group would kill at least one and severely injure the rest with blast damage?

[Ol Devious One]

Agreed. But to do so, they would have to dramatically drop the amount of ammo they can carry.

[Turantula]

Agreed. But to do so, they would have to dramatically drop the amount of ammo they can carry.

Yeah I get that, but in PVE I never take off the scavenger perk so the ammo thing shouldn't be too big of an issue. It seems like a legit balance, but I don't know we've seen Trion's take on "balance" haven't we? lol I'd more than likely log on just to find that rocket damage, and ammo have been decreased, but a 30% buff was given to its melee damage lol.

[Proverbs2720]

Agreed. My SMG should never be able to compete with my rocket launcher. It should be a one shot one kill weapon for most man size encounters.

[GodBunny]

it's meant to be vehicle killer / bug squasher! Oh and shield destroyer/knockdown, physical shields i mean... not energy based.