Their healing grenade are enormous so easier to take down, when LSM are going to have a big one too to replace the tiny bit of pixels on the ground drowned by the green healing animation? Since when for the pistol? And even if their dps is close, I'm pretty sure they can't 2 shots you at very long range. The laser is blue and not red, just get your attention up. As far as I remember rokkit is a joke, you mean the cannon maybe? The antitank is not that great but I agree on the splash kill with no dmg mitigation on the border of the aoe is too fat. Don't start to cry on LSM arsenal because it is not going to end well. PC still stun and has mitigated dmg on border splash. Still one shot to oblivion in the center of the splash. And if you think you can OHK with a plasma gun, you are mistaken, it would be freakin' OP.
Not against Orks. The on-hit (the only thing that deals the full 380 damage) factors in penetration/toughness, so Orks with a EHP of 325 (base) need their tier 1 armor plus a Gob and they'll just barely survive a direct hit with a charged Plasma Cannon. The Slugga can do it with more health left over.
Simply follow the lore, much of those one shot weapon like the powerfist are rare weapon carried by captains and veterans. I'm all for the idea to make the weapons that are supposed to be rare available only to veterans to avoid the stupid situation of facing 7 of those things on simple boyz or space marines while in all races it should be fucking expensive. Furthermore, it would allow Veterans Eldars to become Exarch instead, and give the eldars the weapons they definitly lack and that are normally only used by exarch. By doing the same in all faction we would avoid those problems. Of course, I'm all for it to happen at the same time as the vet update, not before because right now if not playing together a single vet is just dead meat.
Also it would make sense to use a veteran then, aside from the "I can survive more and am a great distraction because everyone and their chickens will try to hunt me down" point.
This would be great and I'm for one shot weapons as long as it's fluff. Warhammer 40k is very frustrating as game because there's a lot of weapons that could one shot a space marine or others. Problem we can have with the vet being the only one using one shot weapons is that some weapons might entirely disappeared from the metagame, or it would be odd to have them only for veterans, like the lascannon. It's not really a rare weapon compared to the powerfist, I mean sure there is only one by devastator squad but still, it doesn't really justify their locking to the vet class. You know what ? I'm going to make a post about it.
I don't see why anyone would even think of the lascannon as being the same kind of one-hit-kill as the others... if you get killed by a lascannon it that means you were actively ignoring the giant red laser pointing at you for a considerable amount of time. Every other OHK is practically a stealth weapon compared to that.
make kannons instant down not instant kill, and make the projectile slower and easier to see like the plasma cannon. Kannon atm is basicaly the pre nerf plasmacannon in lethality and ease of use.
Except in the time it takes to fire and reload the kannon (4.5 seconds) I can put out 3 plasma charged shots (fire one, vent a little, fire 2 more), the plasma Cannon has a snap shot that can be used for self defense (the grenade snapshot on the kannon has too much force to use to defend yourself) or even to march in alongside my teammates.
