Why does Sym's primary still have ramp-up?

[JimothyJohn-1949]

@Joey-1757

so why does it still take a whopping 6 seconds to reach its full dps

Isn’t it 4 seconds if 100% accurate? Which is not hard when using it against barrier’s.

As for why she still has ramp up on it.

1. Her utility is through the roof when compared to that of other DPS.
2. She damage potential outside of her primary and secondary fire from her turrets.

If it had zero ramp up her dps would outshine other dps while STILL having the highest utility out of all DPS. Which would make her become a no brainer choice. Especially in organized play.

However, I do believe its current mechanics could be changed to get some more immediate benefit out of it.

This is an compromise I posted on another Sym thread.

@JimothyJohn-1949

Currently Sym’s beam upgrades by tiers based on the amount of seconds of sustained damage it has done.

What if we changed this from a tier based upgrade system (where it increments upward) to a system where it immediately starts ramping the damage up in either smaller increments or in a meter like way?

Example: For every 0.1 of a second of damage done overall damage of Sym’s beam would increase by 3 damage IMMEDIATLY.

Progressing like this:
60 at start
63 at 0.1s
66 at 0.2s
69 at 0.3s
72 at 0.4s
75 at 0.5s
78 at 0.6s
81 at 0.7s
84 at 0.8s
87 at 0.6s
and finally
90 at 1.0s

Resulting in an increase of 30 damage per second of sustained damage applied up to a max of 180. It does not change the overall max potential but gives immediate benefits to using it which would even out its overall dps potential.

Tell me what you think?