Are 19 level 3 rapid fire ants better or 19 level 3 mortar ants for the formicarium?
Rapid Fire or Mortar
- Thread starter Buffalo981
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The choice has proven to be entirely subjective. It depends on the enemies you're facing. If you're up against a lot of low-health targets, rapid fire is better. Lots of big creature, it's mortar.
Mortar is only good if you're fighting enemies where it can actually use it's area-of-effect damage (the upgrade it gets at level 3). Against everything else the effective DPS of the rapid fires is way above because they can actually hit stuff (moving creatures, at L3 they even slow them). This wouldn't be an issue if the AOE effect of the mortars still applied if they missed their target but it doesn't.
In Freeplay if you have reached 50+ rapid fire shooters they can murder pretty much everything (except the ridiculously tough uber creatures) before it even makes close combat contact.
In Freeplay if you have reached 50+ rapid fire shooters they can murder pretty much everything (except the ridiculously tough uber creatures) before it even makes close combat contact.
Ok thanks. I'm also wondering, what is the difference between physical and venom damage? Are there particular benefits from choosing venom over physical?
Buffalo981 said:
Venom does straight up more damage. The downside here is that you cannot ride off of increased physical damage from crippling, but weakening is arguably far stronger with venom anyway as there's not a lot of good ways to do consistent physical damage with other ants atm, particularly with so much anti-melee.
Boy I just finished playing Level 2.1 on medium with mostly Workers and the Rapoid Wood ants it never felt so easy. Yesterday I tried in the battle Arena mortar vs. Rapid in the small numbers mortar dominate but in the larger numbers 40. 50. ish the Rapids simply Slaughter the Mortars and in Freeplay my dear Mortars on Level 3 mostly miss anything that remotely moves. Ergo time to start a new Formicarium with Rapids.
ElenaMcClurg
Larva
I think it totally depends upon what you are facing in your opposite direction.