Texs Red
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Posted - 2014.02.22 20:35:00 -
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I am a Gallente logi, I have been before they were FOTM and have been a true logi since chromosome. To be honest, I am disappointed with what we know of 1.8 for logis. To gain WP at a logi it required the use of a whole array of equipment: I put down uplinks at the start of the game to keep the pressure on the enemy, I run a rep tool to keep my team mates from dying, I have a scanner so my allies know where the enemy is, and I carry nanohives so ammo is never a problem.
Now all I will be good for is scanning. Have you ever tried to earn a decent amount of WP by scanning alone? I earn *maybe* 150-200 WP from scanning per match and that is if I have aggressive squadmates. Now out of all the SP I poured into a whole variety of equipment, only 1/4 of it is actually good for my suit and out of everything it is the thing that earns me the least amount of WP.
If they want each logi only to be good with their racial equipment, fine that is a great idea. However we need more racial equipment to go with that then. With the current selection of equipment I will be left with one purpose on the battle field and for all the SP I put into a role I would like at least a little more diversity of choice that than.
The Minmatar assault bonus helps him with the Combat Rifle, Assault Combat Rifle, SMG, Flaylock and Mass Driver.
My bonus helps me with Active Scanners and I don't even get a sidearm, anything else and there is somebody who can do it better.
A role should facilitate a play style, not a singular choice. Active scanners, while a valuable function, is not a play style.
What about the Amarr Logi? If anybody should have been a slayer logi it should have been them, it's why they have a sidearm! Instead now they are just "the uplink person", after that they are useless. Want to go fight people? Well your inferior to that compared to any other suit.
The Gallente scout facilitates a play style, you have a low profile and a long scan range with low health. This means I am good in buildings where there is lots of cover where my passive scans and low dB help me surprise the enemy by gettting in close with my power CQC weapons. How do I want to do it? I can use the AR, the Shotgun, perhaps Nova Knives, or maybe I am crazy and use the Plasma Cannon. It has options, the Gallente Logi does not. It uses scanners. Period. |
Texs Red
DUST University
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Posted - 2014.02.22 22:00:00 -
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Meeko Fent wrote:Just looked at the Equipment blog.
The only thing thats changing is that Equipment is losing a ton of Health, Nanohives will need to be put down more often, lolScanners are getting fixed, Logi's will need to keep a bit closer their Heavies, and Droplinks will take longer to spawn at.
And that the Logi's will finally need to fit a self repper, which should bring their EHP when slayer'd to that of a Assault dropsuit when slayer'd, which should scare the Slayers back to a suit that Is better at slaying, i.e. The assault or Heavy.
HOW is this going to Keel the logi's now? ITs just an overall rework that Should force the Slayers back to the slayer class suits, with a small impact on True Logis (i.e. fitting a Self repper or a Reactive).
Although I haven't seen the numbers I am suspecting the Gallente logi will receive a nerf. I suspect that all logi's will lose CPU/PG to help prevent slayer logis and to offset this all logis will gain the bonus to reduced fitting cost. Except the Gallente logi already has that bonus so really it is just getting nerfed. Should this be true then many of my best fits will be void due to the high fitting cost 4 proto equipment.
My proto uplink suit uses every drop of CPU/PG, I don't have a single drop left over. |