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Posted - 2014.01.21 09:48:00 -
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Zeylon Rho wrote:A tank vs. scout scenario seems too fringe. I wouldn't want a bonus that makes the best tank... against other scouts. That's way too specific. Give me a means to make me a better SCOUT. Besides, even without a ferroscale bonus, the Amarr already has a hp edge (tiny though it may be) on other scouts. Taking a bonus in that direction would just give you a slightly better advantage... against scouts. You still wouldn't compete with assaults.
As far as scanners, I believe you'd be sacrificing most of your low slots to avoid the focused proto scanner anyway, which would negate the usefulness of a ferroscale bonus. It's also "possible" that an assault could use a cloak, though we don't know the stats on those yet... or the new assault stats for that matter.
This.
The Amarr favor armor and laser damage. That's a general theme. It doesn't mean everything Amarr needs to be "assault" themed. "The Tank Logi." "The Tank Scout" "The Tank Tank" That just gets silly. They do actually have differentiated roles in EVE. Their logistics, interceptor, ewar, etc. ships are all geared to achieve those roles, not some half-assed hybrid of that role. If they did they'd wind up the one race with a totally useless interceptor because they decided it needed 5 extra tons of armor instead of speed, or a logistics ship with no reppers.
The biggest issue with the Amarr Scout (crap bonus aside) is that it doesn't actually have any speed advantage over assault suits. As long as there's an assault suit that's faster than the Amarr scout, it means that paradigm of the scout being the "faster" suit is gone. The speed is supposed to be part of a scout's protection. If you don't have any edge on a large chunk of the assault population, then that's an issue. That's something that needs to be addressed I think.
Bonus-wise... anything tank-y is stupid and doesn't fit the role anymore than dampening would on a heavy. You'd be sacrificing what could be a useful actual "scout" bonus for to be a bad-tank with a marginal advantage over other scouts (not a speed one at all) and no real advantage on anything else.
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