Arclight

Arclight

Standard Crowd Control Bot

Mobility	Ground
Giant	No
Cost	100
Unlock cost	0
Units	1
HP	3903
Attack	346
Target	Ground Only
Attack Interval	1.0s
Splash Damage	7.0m
Burst Damage	346
Max DPS	346
Range	93m
Speed	7m/s
Description Fires an energy beam that can make short work of light units.

Values are normalized to the supply cost of the unit to make it easier to compare units. The Splash Index tries to calculate the effectiveness vs spam by multiply attacks with slash area and a penalty for damage below 350.
Unit Cost	100
HP Value	39
Burst Value	3.5
DPS Value	3.5
Splash Index	6.9

v0.7.42

Summary

The Arclight is a slow-moving ground unit that specializes in killing groups of fragile units with its ranged AoE attack. Arclights serve one of two main purposes in a player's army. The first is as a cheap way to kill chaff units - the Arclight has enough damage to kill a Crawler, Fang, Mustang, and Wasp (using the Anti-Aircraft Ammunition upgrade) in a single shot, and has high enough attack speed and range to destroy a chaff unit before they can deal significant damage or draw too much fire from your stronger units. The second is as a damage dealer (the "carry" Arclight) - with enough levels and offensive tech upgrades, Arclights become long-range, high-DPS units capable of attacking ground and air units. Fully upgraded Arclights are similar in function to Marksmen. except Arclights aren't effectively countered by chaff units. However, it takes an enormous amount of investment in order to make Arclights this powerful, and typically isn't worth the investment if your opponent has invested in anti-Arclight units early on.

Non-upgraded Arclights have a number of weaknesses. They can't hit air units without Anti-Aircraft Ammunition and struggle to damage non-chaff units (eg. Sledgehammers, opposing Arclights). Their slow speed also makes them vulnerable to Stormcallers. Lastly, Arclights have low enough HP that are vulnerable to units able to deal good single-target damage from range (e.g. Marksman, Sledgehammers).

Tech Upgrades

Icon	Name	Cost	Description
	Range Enhancement	300	Increases attack range by 40m Range 133m
	Electromagnetic Shot	200	Causes electromagnetic interference on hit, temporarily disabling the target unit's Tech and reducing its movement speed by 40%
	Charged Shot	300	Increases ATK by 200% Attack 1038
	Armor Enhancement	150	HP is increased by 20% and 60 damage is blocked when attacked. The damage blocking effect increases by 60 with each level HP 4684
	Anti-Aircraft Ammunition	300	Can be used against aerial units
	Elite Marksman	300	The effect increases with unit level, increasing range by 8m and ATK by 23% per level

Update Notes

0.7.13 Technology [Armor Enhancement] adds an additional 20% HP, and the price is adjusted from 100 to 150. 0.7.12 Arclight's attack interval adjusted from 1.2 to 1.1 Arclight's attack adjusted from 397 to 346. 0.7.7 [Extended range Arclight] adjusted to: Increase Arclight's range by 20m but decrease ATK by 20% [Heavy Arclight] moved to level 3, and the HP bonus adjusted from 200% to 180% [Intelligent Arclight] EXP bonus adjusted to 75% Adjusted the attack bonus of all [Elite Marksman] tech from 30% per level to 23% per level 0.6.179 HP increased from 3394 to 3903 0.6.175 Page created