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On September 06 2012 11:39 absalom86 wrote:
At the moment I feel like Tempest is dead supply once a team fight actually starts due to its dreadful dps. They are great harass / engage forcers and positional control units, but once the battle actually starts you'll have at least 6 basically dead supply for high cost.

What I'd like to see as a solution to this would actually be for them to attack faster or do more damage per shot the closer the target is. It would make sense that to send a missile longer you would spent some of the explosive force on that, hence the longer recharge between attacks.

If Tempest had the damage it has now at max range ( 22 ) and when it got closer to the target the attack speed picked up, becoming on par dps with carrier or BC at 7-10 range or so I feel the unit would be worth it's weight in gold.
Current Tempest dps is 9 for a pretty huge investment, with 30 damage being inflicted every 3,3 seconds.

If Tempest had 3,3 attack speed at 16-22 yard range, 2.3 attack speed at 10-15 and 1.3 attack speed at 0-9 yards their DPS would be upped to 23 in a realistic battle instead of doing less dps than a single marine.