becuase shotguns can already inst-kill why do you need more damage?

Long Story Short:

* There was a time, long ago, when backpedaling under shotgun fire meant dying tired.
* Back then, if a shotgunner got into range you were dead. Every time. Except Heavies.
* For an entire build, Calamity Jane and Annie Oakley kicked sufficient arse to become legend.
* The "bigshots" -- envious of the Twins' success -- b*tched and moaned and lobbied.

Jane and I were crunching some numbers and putting our heads together on the subject of new suits and specs and yes assault is looking good. There are limitations on PG and CPU that we are trying to has out, and without seeing what the PG CPU specs are for Cloaks we cant put all our chips in on this one just yet. Who knows we might opt in for scouts this time around depending on that one thing. Bottom line is Shotty lvl 10 + assault bonus = Pwn.

So taking a step back to look at suits, the temptation of assault suits is growing ever bigger. now that I have a bit better grasp of the pg cpu use for the cloak it looks like Caldari assault is what i may be running with. It will be a very tight fit, so much so i might even have to do only 2 shield extenders and one dampener just to fulfill the cpu requirements. hell even pg is gonna be a tight tight squeeze. The Galente scout screams at me ever more in my dreams. the new pg/cpu outputs put it well above the current assault caldari proto and the thought of using the one high slot for damming and having basically a super low signature with super high radar fidelity makes me grin. Mostly at the thought of sucker punching people when they least expect it. Looking at the numbers though the new assault skill for RoF would put the shotgun at 63.96 firing rate, opposed tot he base 85.71. may not seem like much but damn is that pretty nice. along with lvl 5 reload you get a .51 second per shell reload. There is still much i need to look into but im really liking the way 1.8 looks. If ccp would tweek the shotgun a tiny bit i think i may even want to pick up the game again. Till then though i think ill lay low and respec and see what feels right.