OZAROW
Dem Durrty Boyz
Renegade Alliance
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Posted - 2014.02.04 18:00:00 -
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Gavr1lo Pr1nc1p wrote:Bojo The Mighty wrote:Lightning xVx wrote:I have used NOTHING BUT SPEED, since Closed Beta. Still efficient and deadly, those who say otherwise are honestly doing it wrong. The question is do you think that the Minmatar scout losing the profile reduction bonus will be the killer of the minmatar scout speed tanking, and thus Stealth > Speed, except you do gain a low slot in 1.8. But still the fact that you can't speed tank without stealth says something. The gallente scout will be the speed tanker of 1.8, which is kind of sad. They just have to fit and ADV plat, a proto extender, 3 kin cats, and a damage mod, and they are the best suit in the game. They get 4 free low slots, while minmitar only has 2. Fully shield and speed tanked minmitar that can dodge proto scanners is slower and has less HP than a speed tanked gallente than i mentioned above which passively dodges proto scans. As a min scout who specced into the role for speed tanking, i don't think this is very fair to the minmitar scouts. We get stuck with the lowest base HP, are forced to use an inferior HP source, and have fewer useful slots (lows) than gallente. In addition, gallente get better fittings, so they can fit a cloak on the aforementioned build if they want an shotgun and SMG and stable scanner, however a minmitar scout cannot if they want to run ishnoks and a basic SMG or stable scanner. This is with fitting skills maxed. The main problem though is the superiority of a dampening bonus compared to a hacking bonus, and the disparity between armor and shields. Click my sig if you wanna know more about what could fix this
Trust me min scouts are gonna be deadly come 1.8, sure the gal has more lows an it's getting another high slot, but say speed tanking it isn't gonna be as viable as you think, the min got a base movement speed increase which leads one to believe our base sprint will be faster.
So say you want 3x kinetics on a gallente, a regulator an 2x comp shields to make up for the armor that's gonna kill CPU an pg to fit 2 weapons an equip just to run aprox 10.73, the min runs 10.38 now without the base stat change, plus cloak has a 25% reduction to profile, so with skills up an a cloak an three kinetics an stacking penalties it's safe to say you could almost run 11.38? Won't know till we see the full stats but lets just say it does, an you can still fit 3x shields an be under 28 your still gonna have 400+ HP an be fast as hell, sure the gall has more lows an better base stats as far as its range, profile an 3 HP goes, but you gotta use the suit according to its bonuses, now that min is the hacker even if you get scanned you gotta just book if scanned but with a 35 base db an pd to 5 an a cloak it shouldn't be to hard hide.
Personally I ll run armor on mine an 2 speed, still run + ten, 343 shields 180 armor with a cloak re knives an a CR
BUT even in the gal I'd rather hide than be fast, it all depends on if you still die once you turned a corner.
SUPER NOVA KNIFE SAIYAN 4
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