Swann's Heavy Weapons Specialist

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Advantage: The Laser Drill deals splash damage and slows.

Disadvantage: The Laser Drill’s abilities are unavailable.

This Prestige feels extremely weak. Swann’s drill abilities are some of the best in the game, both abilities can 1 shot entire waves. This Prestige is going to need way more damage in a way bigger radius or way more slow for it to be worth the disadvantage.

It may help to remove it’s delay between attacks. When the drill’s target is defeated, there’s a tiny delay before it switched to another target. If this were instant, it might make this Prestige a bit better. Watching the drill attack a zergling, kill it, delay, attack another zergling, kill it, delay…

Otherwise my only idea for making this a worthwhile choice would be, since it’s called “Heavy Weapons Specialist,” is to increase the damage, splash, and movement speed of Siege Tanks but they can no longer enter siege mode.

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We can have Laser Drill to benefit from Ground/Air upgrades and have Prestige to decrease the target time by 100%.

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I made a quick demo of how it should look like, please take a look.
I think the change is indeed powerful, very well compensating for the loss of Top Bar abilities.
Link: https://youtu.be/NQoP_j3jszI

  1. Drill can now benefit from Weapon Upgrade (Max. 50 to 65)
  2. Drill’s radius corresponds with Swann’s 3.2 Draken Laser Drill Mastery 1 to 1.45 radius
  3. Drill’s lock-on time is reduced by 100%. It can immediately fire onto the target.

From what I understand the Drill is the main focus with this prestige.
With my proposal the drill becomes far more efficient extra range dealers.
Even against highly densed enemy waves the Drill with fine control can greatly aid supporting fire.

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Thanks for doing the research on this. After playing around with this prestige, I was thinking at the very minimum to have instant re-fire times. The changes you listed though sound damn good, and would actually favor a cyclone or wraith build. Micro the laser to kill certain targets or detectors, then move in with your fast hitting force.

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I really like the reduced lock-on time suggestion. Even 50-75% might be good enough to make it a viable prestige choice.

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I feel like faster lock on time is something Swann’s drill should just have in general, often it ends up locking on stuff your army or defense has already started killing, leading to a series of new lock ons that doesn’t do anything, and it locks on so slow that it almost doesn’t feel worth it to micro.

It does feel too harsh to lose the abilities entirely, I would prefer if it worked like the other Prestige where the cooldowns are just doubled.

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The Heavy Weapon Specialist Prestige is surprisingly powerful with fine control, the lock-on system just need to be decreased.