Talk:Avenger/@comment-36661121-20180913032906/@comment-35015268-20180913134700

I use an avenger on my orkan/avenger inquisitor. I do this because the avenger has such massive damage that it offsets a lot of the downsides. The orkan has 300m range, at that range, the avenger can do a ridiculous amount of damage. The only issue is that you have to sometimes lead the orkan fire which means the avenger won't completely hit but I find this to be a minor issue. With an inquisitor, it is usually out in the open after a descend jump since it is slow. With only 2 orkans, you run out of high damaging firepower after 4 seconds. But with an avenger, you get solid cover fire after your descend and orkan runs out so you can get behind cover OR scare your enemy into their own cover. That is the main reason I use the avenger.

Also, I find that having a longer range weapon on my inquisitor really helps with targets that are slightly beyond 300m (especially since the inquisitor is too slow to catch). I used to have a tempest on my inquisitor and that was great, the avenger just cranks the damage up a few notches with some range loss.

I have also used the thunder a lot before but at 300m, I find the thunder to be ineffective, and I don't like to get too close to an enemy just so my single thunder can work better. My orkans are the primary weapon, I think the avenger is a solid support weapon on an inquisitor.

On the embers, it would work perfectly with orkans since both have to lead the target a bit. I just don't like the firing mechanics since it needs to lead the target a bit more than the orkans so if your target is a mid-speed bot or faster, your ember would get out of sync with the orkans just slightly. Embers against fast or dash bots are simply useless unless they are in touch range or they are not paying attention to you.

Let's also keep in mind that at 50% damage (350m), a mk1 lvl 12 avenger would still do around 13.2k dps. That's very close to the damage of a mk1 lvl12 storm (13.8kdps) at 200m effective range, and it is damn close to the 14.7k dps of the ember. If you are at 300m for the orkan, that avenger dps goes up to 23k dps (73% of full dps) which is more than the ember.

It really depends on your style and what you use on the medium harpoints, if you like the ember and can use it effectively then that is what you should use on an inquisitor (with orkans). If you are not using orkans then I think the avenger would be a front runner (except for dragoon which is simply awesome at the mid range).