Bojo The Mighty wrote:Maken Tosch wrote:I agree that I do find it inconsistent with the pattern. Gallente suits really aren't meant to deal maximum damage for a scout class as that is the job for the Minmatar suits in the same class. Gallente Scouts are best used for one of two things.
1. An all-seeing-eye as the extra low slots are suppose to give scouts the ability to fit the most amount of range amplifiers for their passive scanners. The built-in passive scanners of the suits, when fully trained up alongside precision enhancement skill plus the bonus from the suit, can potentially see up to 99 meters through man-made structures (but not through rocks).
2. A stealthy infiltrator as the extra low slots can also accommodate the most amount of profile dampeners for the class thus allowing the scout to evade even the most powerful active/passive scanners in the game.
If you want maximum damage, especially for sidearms and melee, the Minmatar scout is the way to go. But for light weapons, it's best to stick with the other classes.
Pretty much. The Gallente Suit was designed especially for scanning it would seem. The high slot is left open for a Precision enhancer probably (in design, not in practice). This also opens up better armor tanking, to follow Gallente idealism. Basically the G/1 series is barely better than the G -1 because the second high slot really detracts from suit.
Hmm maybe this was the original intention for the gall scout, but CCP removes this role nearly completely with 1.4. The removal of Teamview destroyed th scout role of the gal scout.
On a sidenote any suit is a better scout just by using an active scanner, and those who use tha sctive scanners will a) light up the enemies for the team and b) with 1.5 they will get WP for scanning. You get all of this for 932760 SP and one piece of equipment.
The Gal scout would need 4352880 SP in Skills an 4 Complexx Range Amplifiers and one Precision Enhancer and still with all this SP investment and equipment the gal scout is only able to barely beat and advanced scanner, there is no way the gal scout can beat the Protoscanner.
Thats quite an investment to be barely better than an Advanced scanner whithout the option to get WP for scanning and the ability to light up people for your team.
Of course this is would be only a therotical build thats pretty much useless on the battlefield.
The same is true for stealth in theory the gal scout can beat any scanner in profile dampening but the suit that can do this can't take any real advantage as you sacrifice nearly all of your low slots and lots of CPU. There is not much room to fit anything useful beside your stealth specialisation...