Long range is better done with Cruise, Rails or sentries. Arties are the worst long range platform for pve. Much lower damage, extremely poor tracking, very low ROF. They’re an absolute blast in PVP because you can bite chunks out of folks and bust through active tanks, but in PVE just about everything else is better. The only time I use them in PVE is for blapping missions. Like they’re great in dread pirate scarlet or breeding facility (lvl 5), but if you look at completion times, It would probably take me 4x longer to complete a typical lvl 4 in a mach with arties than it would to do that same mission with autos.