Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
League of Infamy
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Posted - 2014.01.30 00:35:00 -
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IWS said it right. Where you put your points is everything. And DUST / EVE U are an awesome group of people.
I have about 20 million. Of that, probably 12-14 million is in Tanks. Those are pretty much maxed for what I want to do. I don't have the best small turrets or missile turrets but my Tank is maxed for what I have chosen to do with it. If I was given another 20 million, the only thing that would change is that I would have Infantry Skills other than being advanced/basic.
The first month or two WILL be the hardest part mate. You don't have the SP to have one role that you are strong in. You get 24k SP a day for passive and your bonus SP a week is 190,400. If you cap out every week, you can expect to get 358,400 SP. You can also get up to 1,000 SP a match AFTER cap based on how many War Points you get (1 WP = 1 SP up to 1,000). After about 6 weeks of capping out, you will have about 2.6 million SP. That is enough to get advanced weaponry and advanced Dropsuits for ONE role. Choose that ONE role and you can easily start to reckon with the people with 40 million SP in that role.
If you decide to get Passive and Active boosters, you can finish up maxing that role much faster but it isn't really needed. Past about 8ish million SP, the only difference is what you can do in the game rather than how good you can do it. Someone with 10 million SP can probably be a great assault and an okay logistics. Someone with 20 million SP can probably be a great assault, a great logistics, and an okay scout. The only difference is how much they can do.
Don't put points into getting things to Prototype too quickly. Getting something to level 4 and 5 is far, far more expensive than just getting something to level 3. Level 3 lets you use Advanced gear, which has sizable jump over basic and is probably the best bang for buck SP-wise. In fact, getting a skill to level 5 from 4 is double what is needed to get from 0 to 4, so be careful with that! It is usually better to get several skills IN THE SAME ROLE to level 3 than to just get one or two to 5. This means don't just get X Assault to level 5 and ignore weapons and Dropsuit Upgrades. Instead, use a basic frame for a while and get some points in your passive skills (5% more Armor/Shield, more CPU/PG, etc) and just point puts in places that let you start using that role. If you want to test a weapon/module, use Militia first. If you want to try out a weapon that (stupidly) doesn't have a Militia variant, put a SINGLE point into it. That would only cost 12k which is not a huge amount lost. Just be careful not to nickle and dime your way into oblivion.
Good luck and welcome to DUST 514. |