Borne Velvalor
Endless Hatred
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Posted - 2013.11.03 06:08:00 -
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So, I pull out an active scanner. These are your options.
- Play normally. You are all marked for my squad.
- Use dampeners. You die twice as fast to my whole team.
I like that.
Many suits I've worn, many burdens I've borne, for the oaths I've sworn.
Panda.
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Borne Velvalor
Endless Hatred
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Posted - 2013.11.03 07:35:00 -
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Ecshon Autorez wrote:Borne Velvalor wrote:So, I pull out an active scanner. These are your options.
- Play normally. You are all marked for my squad.
- Use dampeners. You die twice as fast to my whole team.
I like that. Actually it's the opposite since I'm a logibro(well aside from my logi having almost 10hp/s armor repair), even my modules are fitted to assist my team. The Gallente stealth fitting I use has 17 hp more than my mk.0 (just added shields and armor together than checked the difference between suits) (haven't got shield extender level 5 yet, so I'm stuck using ADV) I won't have the damage of an Imperial scrambler rifle, but you won't see me coming.... or which direction I ran away in after killing one person from your group. And I have the added bonus of the ISK war, my stealth fitting is entirely MLT BPOs except for my Exile AR and Toxin SMG. (which are both STD BPOs) How much does your scanner fitting cost?
A whopping 25k ISK and it paints almost everyone. I know, I know; I'm breaking the bank.  Occasionally someone slips through in pubs and I get a big "OMG, SOMEONE IS IN FRONT OF YOU WITHIN 30 DEGREES WITH DAMPENERS!" message. I usually run the standard flux, because very few players use dampeners, and even if they did, I'm not so reliant on it as for that to be a major problem. 
You're basic Gallente suit with two dampeners and a basic plate has 500 HP. A decently bricked mk.0 can reach 800 HP and still have two dampeners, with more gear slots and more CPU/PG to play with. If your proto suits have less health than your standard suits and you aren't running a Scout suit, it's because you chose to do so. I can take a proto suit and fit it with all damage modifiers and cardiac regulators and say it has less health than a starter fit with a plate. That doesn't make the starter fit more competitive than proto suits.
How does this make Gallente the best race anyway? Any suit with 2 lows can use dampeners. The only advantage you have is that because it's a starter fit, it's a little bit cheaper. I'm confused. Seriously. Militia dampeners cost a little over 300 ISK and any suit can use them. The militia Gallente suit costs a little under 600 ISK and anyone can use that. The thread title should be "Dampeners are the best module, and here's why," because any suit can fit a dampener.
You aren't excelling by slapping your dampeners on militia gear; you're just making it easier for me to kill you. You're proto suit may have less health, but it CAN have far more health and power if you wanted it to. There's no benefit to using militia gear, period, except to save some ISK. There's no reason to start as Gallente for this, when the whole suit without any BPOs costs 3-4k ISK.
My point still stands. Either you are painted or you lower your health/speed/repair by sacrificing lows. Dropping down to a militia suit due to my scanner won't scare me; it'll make me laugh my ass off, because you're now using inferior gear. You drop from a 4/4/4 slot loadout of the mk.0 to a 0/1/1 loadout of the Gallente after 2 dampeners, just so you won't get scanned and I can instead see a "warning, unmarked enemy directly in front of you" message pop up on my screen. At this point, I keep my eye out for unmarked targets running around and blast them as per usual. If unmarked militia targets were such a big problem that they were more of a threat than marked full proto targets, I'd be getting militia stomped in pubs every time I left my scanner at home.
Many suits I've worn, many burdens I've borne, for the oaths I've sworn.
Panda.
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