Actually the best ''scout'' is the Minmatar logi....
Kin cat
Cardia Reg
Profile Damp

And shield tank. Voila....

Self repair + hacking speed as bonuses.

I see scouts as having three main uses (assuming all classes sufficiently fill their role):

CQC stealth fighter: Slips into occupied areas and stealthily kills enemies while enemy is distracted.
Medium range scouter: Advances ahead of rest of team, scouts out enemy's positions, and advises main force on enemy locations and best entry routes

^ both also serve well for hacking objectives/installations and planting traps when enemy has their back turned

Long range counter-sniper: While not having the straight up damage of an Assault sniper, the supply line of a Logi sniper, or the toughness of a Heavy sniper, the scout sniper serves well in finding other snipers while not being detected themselves.

What's a scount?

I wasn't making a joke or being facetious; I genuinely was curious what Scouts' roles are lol. I can't seem to see a clearly defined role for them. I get the "scouting" mechanic, but it doesn't seem that the game has created the tools for them to be successful, so I was just curious.

Scouts have no real role, it is CCPs forgotten child (kind of like CCPs mutant baby the Commando), despite the fact that it has been here forever.

1.4 won't change much for scouts, losing vision of both your teammates and the enemy will have both positive and negative effects, so that is pretty neutral. Active scanning still does nothing for wps and only is really effective if you have a full squad.

CCP has mentioned that they are going to look to see what they can do in 1.6, but considering that is 2 updates ahead, we know the glitch correction cycle will push that back another month, so I am guessing 1.7.

Again this is not to say that people can't play scouts, its just that you are performing with diminished results.

What scouts should be is the enemy team divider or anti logi, either by giving away the position of the team or by group harassment/disorientation through EWAR.

On the bright sides I do believe we are the best nova knifing class still

Actually I thought they said they would throw it in 1.5 as they had started working on it and tried to get the WPs for active scans in 1.4. They obviously didn't make the deadline though.

If you are in a decent corp then you should always find yourself in a full squad which means that the active scanners will be extremely useful.

Well trained scouts can put a serious panic to any heavy in there path.

I personally work as a counter logi and, if my team is competent, am able to do my job quite well.

I also keep uplinks on hadn. Yes a logi can place more but when you think about it... where do they ALWAY place them? Right on the front lines! This does no good for tactical players that would like to first put some distance between them and the enemy in order to plan out there next move. I prefer to place my uplinks behind enemy lines and at elevated positions. This give aggressive scouts (ninjas and shotgunners) a chance to attack from behind while allowing snipers instant access to a crow's nest (gotta hate spawning in a fire fight with nothing but dam sniper rifle).

My stealth and hacking speed allows me to hack defensive objectives in order to get the enemy's attention away from the major ones (if they ignore it then that's just more damage against there MCC)

Sure Logis CAN mod themselves for scout jobs but do to there desire to deal damage or stay alive, they usually don't.

Scouts are always on the move and planning there next way to disorient the enemy. In a RPG world the scout's job is to debuff and assassinate (heavy damage vs single targets).

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`Sigh. Just another fun game of DUST.

I wasn't making a joke or being facetious; I genuinely was curious what Scouts' roles are lol. I can't seem to see a clearly defined role for them. I get the "scouting" mechanic, but it doesn't seem that the game has created the tools for them to be successful, so I was just curious.