Talk:Harpoon Missiles/@comment-4651435-20180325064050/@comment-454133-20180325075737

Unfortunately, the answer is generally no. Tracers have some utility in certain situations, being only one point and playing well in a support role. Proton Rockets and Cruise Missiles are very neat and were great in their time, but are now overshadowed by the sheer power and efficiency of harpoons. Homing Missiles were good but I never see them anymore, again because Harpoons largely outperform them: they are a point cheaper and a lot more effective thanks to their condition.

The only problem with harpoons is the condition can, in some circumstances, be used against you (they move into range 1 of you, hoping to pulse damage when they die or take a crit). But that clearly hasn't deterred people from choosing them over basically all other munitions most of the time.

There are edge cases where various other munitions might be desirable, but in each case you have to seriously ask yourself "but why wouldn't I just use harpoons instead?". If you're a rebel ship, the answer might be "because I only have torpedo slots", in which case you field Proton Torpedoes or Plasma Torpedoes and that's unfortunately the best you've got (they're decent, but not nearly as good as harpoons).

IMO it's a problem that needs fixing and I'm hoping for some sort of rebalancing, but when I asked about it on the FFG Forums I got a lot of sass because people think harpoons should remain untouched to deal with other overpowered stuff (like miranda and wookies). But that doesn't make it right IMO; don't leave multiple things overpowered to face each other, that just makes everything else unviable. :(  FFG could instead rebalance all other munitions to be at harpoon level, but that kind of nova firepower already makes it hard for a lot of other ships from being viable.  It's a big problem for the upcoming U-Wing and X-Wing fixes... it's possible the fix will be anemic right out of the gate because the harpoon- and tank-heavy meta just isn't condusive to their stats or playstyle.

Anyway, that's my rant.