5% reduction of scan profile per level don't cut it anymore

Now that everyone is running an adv or pro scanner I can't hide from no one

Soooo you are saying the only way to counter it is to put only dampers in my low slot( No I using them for some else

The only suit capable of counter perfectly is the gallente scout and gallente meduim frame, but they will have fill 3 to all of their low slots with dampers

Scouts are pretty low in the slot department.

Sure, it's a choice, but you generally need "something else" in order to be effective and it will need to be fit somewhere too.

Do you run anything other than logi?

Right, so investing nearly 3 million SP into passive skills doesn't count as trying, then?

Why not?

Because you arbitrarily decided it doesn't since that doesn't rhyme with your viewpoint, or do you actually have a thought-out reasoning that brought you to that conclusion?

To paraphrase your statement: There's no point in even having the dampening skills if people using scanners don't even need to try to make it damned hard to avoid their scans.

No, I haven't stated my opinion yet, so you're making false assumptions. Here's what I think:

• A light suit should beat the standard scanner, regardless of skills
• A level 3 scout suit skill + a few levels into profile dampening should beat advanced scanners
• A level 5 scout suit skill + maxed out profile dampening should beat all but the proto 15 (16?) dB scanner
• A level 5 scout suit skill + maxed out profile dampening + a basic profile dampener module should beat all active scanners

Ie: a slight lowering of the scout suit's scan profile would suffice.



Sorry, but that doesn't make sense to me. Proficiency isn't a counter to anything, it's a passive amplification skill. It can't render the weapon it applies to obsolete.

Anyway: Am I to understand you're against any passive skill that renders something else less effective?

Also, you're actually arguing my point, logic-wise. If a proto Gallente scout has to max out dampening skills and use 3 of his 4 low slots to equip complex profile dampeners to counter the best scanner, that scout is practically rendered obsolete by that scanner. There are too few slots left to make an effective enough fitting to justify the cost of a proto suit. Absence from enemy radar is the one clear advantage scouts have over other suits at the moment. Medium suits do everything else better (the speed difference is negligible).

And my argument is that earning SP for months is just as much - more, actually - effort as using an equipment slot for a scanner. I really can't understand that you consider this effortless. In fact, I can't think of anything that requires more effort in Dust than grinding SP.