The TTK makes Shield Extenders, Regulators, Armour Plates, Armour Reps...etc all entirely irrelevant. It doesn't matter if you have 200 eHP or 1200 eHP when there is a mere second between TTKs.

I agree that it definately makes running Proto gear useless but it isn't the answer to protostomping.

Hey guess what. When the enemy has the same tech as you then tech means squat. Real world or in game. Cover and not getting shot will always be the preferred method of war no matter what kind of tech you have.

There is a thing called "tactics" which now has a better chance of deciding a fight than gear. Have you ever tried "taking cover" or "falling back". I hear people QQ about the scanner being OP, maybe they should take off those "useless" armor mods and put on some profile dampners. People also QQ about the scouts being too easy to kill, I remedy this by not running into people like an assault, that's why the passive scanner is there and the suits have built in profile dampners. If you put 4 complex armor mods on a scout suit you deserve to die.

The argument keeps coming up "Why use proto or advanced now?" Good question and I've been asking that for awhile, I used standard and advanced in pubs. I use proto in PC matches and will likely use it in future FW where it matters. It won't make me invincible, but when I want a W it will give me the edge. If you buy expensive running shoes it won't help you win a marathon unless you're already a marathon runner. Why should and E sport be any different?

As someone with over 21 mil SP and 250 mil ISK, I've learned that proto gear won't do enough to justify wearing it in a match where victory doesn't mean more than an extra 100,000 ISK or 1,000 WPs. I still can and should be taken down by more organised players using better tactics, but I'll never prescribe to the idea that someone should always win because they have better gear.

If you use proto and you die fast.... YOU ****** UP. It is not the games fault or the fact that you are too easy to kill. I held objective A in the one map with the silo that B is on top of it and people can jump into it, BY MYSELF, until people saw I was still down there and they stopped coming. I was in proto at the time, and I killed everyone that came at me, bro. Solo denial of an objective in my proto suit during a FW match. And you people want to give me more ability to slaughter the masses with increased time to kill? I am not even in the top echelon of good players and an entire team stopped attacking one guy in a Gallente proto assault suit. Yeah, you people have no idea about how good TTK actually is right now. A proper proto player will die at most, never, against BPO and STD players. Moping out entire squads of them...ADV guys you have a chance, but let the forums dictate CCP and unless you bring proto... Well, you may as well not even exist.

Please, stop with the ********.
If you managed to do that, in this patch, you were using a tactic called camping, a twitch shooter tactic. Now I guess based on your responses you play with an assault rifle? or prehaps the scrambler?

Now the thing is you assume that because we don't like the current state of play, we all use proto and want to stand out in the open butchering people like rambo. We don't most people agree with me when I say 1.4 was nearly perfect, just a little bit longer would have been perfect!

We want trench warfare style battles, we want people exchanging shots behind cover, not mexican standoffs, we don't want 1 man area denial, we want squads to have to use tactics, not wolf packs and we don't want to win based on who fired first!

There is a thing called "tactics" which now has a better chance of deciding a fight than gear. Have you ever tried "taking cover" or "falling back". I hear people QQ about the scanner being OP, maybe they should take off those "useless" armor mods and put on some profile dampners. People also QQ about the scouts being too easy to kill, I remedy this by not running into people like an assault, that's why the passive scanner is there and the suits have built in profile dampners. If you put 4 complex armor mods on a scout suit you deserve to die.

The argument keeps coming up "Why use proto or advanced now?" Good question and I've been asking that for awhile, I used standard and advanced in pubs. I use proto in PC matches and will likely use it in future FW where it matters. It won't make me invincible, but when I want a W it will give me the edge. If you buy expensive running shoes it won't help you win a marathon unless you're already a marathon runner. Why should and E sport be any different?

As someone with over 21 mil SP and 250 mil ISK, I've learned that proto gear won't do enough to justify wearing it in a match where victory doesn't mean more than an extra 100,000 ISK or 1,000 WPs. I still can and should be taken down by more organised players using better tactics, but I'll never prescribe to the idea that someone should always win because they have better gear.