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Driftward wrote:

Note about things I've come across lately. Remote explosives. F*** YEAH. The most cheap freaking kills I've ever gotten. I feel dirty every time I use them, but damn those double and triple kills are satisfying. You need explosives to 3 and only demolitions 1.

Damage doesn't scale with tier on RE's so the only advantage to going adv and proto RE's is that you can carry more and have more active at once.

EWAR skills may become all the rage once 1.4 hits. Be prepared and start in on range amplification and profile dampening. Getting to level 3 in each can give a significant boost to both range (30% ie to 13m, or if you run gallente and have proto racial, ~20 m) as well as to dampening (can shield you from std active scanners, but not adv or proto as well as most passive scanning)

Oh and I also updated formatting on the page. No more holy block of text. Yay formatting. I also changed a bit of advice based on changes in the last update / nerfs / buffs / future proofing


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Awry Barux Shining Flame Amarr Empire 104	Posted - 2013.09.22 15:35:00 - [1] - Quote Driftward wrote: Note about things I've come across lately. Remote explosives. F*** YEAH. The most cheap freaking kills I've ever gotten. I feel dirty every time I use them, but damn those double and triple kills are satisfying. You need explosives to 3 and only demolitions 1. Damage doesn't scale with tier on RE's so the only advantage to going adv and proto RE's is that you can carry more and have more active at once. EWAR skills may become all the rage once 1.4 hits. Be prepared and start in on range amplification and profile dampening. Getting to level 3 in each can give a significant boost to both range (30% ie to 13m, or if you run gallente and have proto racial, ~20 m) as well as to dampening (can shield you from std active scanners, but not adv or proto as well as most passive scanning) Oh and I also updated formatting on the page. No more holy block of text. Yay formatting. I also changed a bit of advice based on changes in the last update / nerfs / buffs / future proofing Great guide . I highly recommend picking up advanced REs, because it cuts their time between being dropped and going live down from 3-4 seconds to about 2. This makes it possible to minja sprint through an enemy formation, laying down all 3 of your REs, then (potentially suicide) detonating them for a quick multi-kill. You'll probably die but the mayhem is just too fun. Also, you say you don't like fitting a SMG with your shotgun, but I think you should revisit it. For 15 CPU and 3 PG, you get a weapon that's effective out to ~25M, easily 3x the range of the shotgun. It's also a great tool to bait your enemies into shotgun/RE zones, by peeking out of cover, tagging them with a few SMG bullets, then ducking back again. Nothing screams prey to a Duvolle AR protobear like a scout picking at him with an SMG. At this point, for profile dampening, you need to be sub-36db or it's useless. Everyone, myself included, is rolling with the Quantum active scanner. +8 CPU usage compared to the standard version, in exchange for a 16 second target paint time and 36db precision. Also, if you ever get bored of the shotgun, since you've already got LW Ops 4, throw 12k SP into a basic plasma cannon. PLC/RE scout is a hilarious combo.