Mining Laser

Mining Lasers are hardpoint weapons in .

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A focused mining-oriented laser, designed for heavy extraction work.

While you may be hesitant to fill a weapon slot with this dedicated tool it has surprising combat application. To start it's the games only beam weapon granting an instantaneous damage making most evasive maneuvers enemies ships might employ ineffective. However in order to make the most of this you need to have nothing but top speed (8000m/s) weapons. This is more viable then it sounds as the high accuracy can overcome the low DPS in many situations.

However this may not be a great endgame strategy as the tools short range requires you to get closer to large ships than is reasonable. That said Mining is one of the best ways to make money early on so consider incorporating it into your arsenal.

It is also worth noting that equipping more then one is impractical owing to it's high power usage.