Hello, fellow Commanders!
Only today I was able to finally lay my hands upon the modified guardian shard cannons.
I did some more or less successful battles with Thargoids before, using Krait MK2 with the combination "3 x Guardian Gauss + 1 x Guardian Plasma" (all of them "regular"; I was deadly tired of targeting scouts with only gausses so I've decided to install at least one plasma to better get them…) – well, since I fly more often solo than I'd like to, I never been able to destroy anything "harder" than a group of three-in-a-row "Cyclops" (yes, I'm still learning how to cold orbit etc. – more often I use the direct approach "kick it in jaw and run away").
Soo only today I saw the difference between gausses and shards and even tried the premium ammo on shards. Got two Cyclops VERY fast, first one was obliterated right after ejecting the first heart from it and the second one was killed right after ejecting the second heart from it.
From my point of view, shards are WAY better when you are trying to target those little flying bastards and "well, OK" when you start dealing with angry flowers. But the thermo-profile is PAINFUL…. T_T That's the only drawback – as far as I can see…
And I am curious now – are Guardian Gausses still the top of AX-meta or the balance is shifted to "modified"-anything (plasma or shards)?
What do you think, folks? What are you using more often and why? Mind sharing configurations of your AX-ships?
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/10a0z52/current_axweaponrymeta_question/
