>>714426761
It's been forever since I played MWO, but this is what I remember.
>Overwhelming majority of IS mechs were shit
>A small percentage had the stars align to have both a meta collection of weapon hardpoints and the right quirks to elevate their IS weaponry to clan power levels or sometimes beyond
>One balance patch to that weapon or that mech's quirks could banish the mech from S-tier to F-tier.
meanwhile on the clan side.
>Just pick and chose whatever the current meta arrangement of weapons was
>you don't really need quirks since vanilla clan equipment is just better than vanilla IS equipment, LMAO
>if a weapon gets nerfed, spend 5 minutes equipping the new meta weapons
You could never go wrong with clan mechs. Sometimes a select lucky few IS mechs could be equals or even superior, but it was a revolving door and any patch could kill your mech forever since their viability was ENTIRELY dependent upon arbitrary whims of quirks instead of anything fundamental about IS equipment.
