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Grav is arguably better against fliers considering Immobilized messes up quite a lot.

Plasma really did seem to lose it's niche to grav. Grav does what plasma did with more shots and no risk of getting hot. Plasma could probably use some love.

Plasma is better against weaker targets, but then if you are shooting them with plasma it is either out of desperation or a waste.

What would make plasma have it's own special niche? Is it supposed to just be a multipurpose weapon with a risk of killing yourself? That doesn't really go, you would think the all-rounder weapon would need to be more reliable (so you don't kill yourself shooting at an ork) while the specialized weapon for killing the nasty stuff would carry the risks you'd be willing to take.

Obviously it would be weird to make plasma suddenly not get hot after the long history in the game. But currently, it's in a weird place. Would it fit the niche more if it no longer had the gets hot rule, but was only AP3? Or maybe gets hot no longer kills your guy but he cannot fire his weapon in your next shooting phase.

Plasma is reasonable still compared to a grav gun, but NOT a grav cannon. Grav cannons rerolling wounds is just crazy good.

Hard to find any weapons in the game that compare to grav cannons!

Scatter lasers for their widespread availability I guess. Outside of that..