DUST Search - I'm a Logi

J4yne C0bb wrote:

If you want to be an actual logi, go into level 3 of hives, injectors, rep tools and uplinks, and an advanced suit of your choice. Create fitings based around each equipment, and deploy them in strategic points or defensible areas in each map where support is needed. Lots of times those are supply depots, especially in Doms -- frequently, whoever controls the depot controls the point, so make a point to place uplinks around them, so that they tend to be defended.

Do not be that douchbag logi in every other match that deploys hives around the supply depot in an attempt to farm as many WP as possible from mercs changing out their fits. If you do, you should be ashamed to call yourself a logi, and you are utterly useless at your job. Deploy hives (especially repping hives) in known choke points or positions that need defending, where they do your team the most good -- do your damn job, in other words. Uplinks are better for around a depot.

I have a series of fits, each dedicated to a type of equipment. When a match starts, I deploy uplinks where I think they are most useful/protected, then I go find a supply depot, change out to a 'hives' fit, and deploy those in important places for my team. Then I go back and switch out to more of a 'slayer' type fitting with a dam mod or two and a rep tool, and support my squad/team. But while I'm doing that, I'm always keeping an eye on my equipment -- if it got used/blown up, I go back to the depot and resupply those positions, then go back to repping and rezzing my teammates.

Every dedicated logi fitting I create has an injector, save 2 that I call my 'basecamp' fittings (which are all hives/uplinks), which I deploy when I want to setup shop somewhere, like a high tower or something.

Being a good logi is about looking at the bigger picture. You have to know the maps well enough to know where most engagements tend to take place, and support those positions. After you've done it for long enough, you'll actually find that where you deploy equipment is actually a great non-verbal cue to noobs and squad-less teammates on where they should be on the battlefield -- it's a subtle way of directing the flow of the battlefield, without actually saying anything. It's more difficult these days, with all the equipment spam every damn place, but you can help by placing your equipment as smartly and logically as possible.


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Awry Barux Ametat Security Amarr Empire 1260	Posted - 2014.02.28 01:41:00 - [1] - Quote The best advice I can give is, get all the equipment and use lots of fits with different combos. Injector and repping are cool if you're into that sort of thing (using a rep tool makes me want to claw my eyes out), but IMHO uplinks and nanohives are more important, especially because of the amount of triage you can put out without having to put your gun away, if you're willing to drop some cash on proto nanohives. Until they do something about our ability to spam various types of uplinks and hives, what some would call "equipment spam" is both the best way to earn WP and the most effective means of fortifying a position. It forces your enemy to choose- do they deal with the equipment and get shredded by your infantry, or focus on the infantry and hope they can kill them despite the equipment? In an ideal position you can just swap suits at the depot and not have to die, but if you do have to die (I have been known to commit suicide simply to switch equipment loadouts): First spawn: 2 or 3 sets of uplinks Second spawn: proto nanohives on an advanced suit Third spawn: rep tool, injector, other nanohives or REs depending on preference.
Awry Barux Ametat Security Amarr Empire 1260	Posted - 2014.02.28 01:47:00 - [2] - Quote In terms of fittings, it really depends what sort of Logi work you're doing. If you're heavy humping / chubby chasing (can't decide which term I like more) then max tank is the only thing that matters. Otherwise, I highly recommend at least an enhanced cardiac reg due to logis' poor max stamina and mediocre stamina regen, and a kincat if you have room can make you a great logi-scout.
Awry Barux Ametat Security Amarr Empire 1265	Posted - 2014.02.28 02:20:00 - [3] - Quote J4yne C0bb wrote: If you want to be an actual logi, go into level 3 of hives, injectors, rep tools and uplinks, and an advanced suit of your choice. Create fitings based around each equipment, and deploy them in strategic points or defensible areas in each map where support is needed. Lots of times those are supply depots, especially in Doms -- frequently, whoever controls the depot controls the point, so make a point to place uplinks around them, so that they tend to be defended. Do not be that douchbag logi in every other match that deploys hives around the supply depot in an attempt to farm as many WP as possible from mercs changing out their fits. If you do, you should be ashamed to call yourself a logi, and you are utterly useless at your job. Deploy hives (especially repping hives) in known choke points or positions that need defending, where they do your team the most good -- do your damn job, in other words. Uplinks are better for around a depot. I have a series of fits, each dedicated to a type of equipment. When a match starts, I deploy uplinks where I think they are most useful/protected, then I go find a supply depot, change out to a 'hives' fit, and deploy those in important places for my team. Then I go back and switch out to more of a 'slayer' type fitting with a dam mod or two and a rep tool, and support my squad/team. But while I'm doing that, I'm always keeping an eye on my equipment -- if it got used/blown up, I go back to the depot and resupply those positions, then go back to repping and rezzing my teammates. Every dedicated logi fitting I create has an injector, save 2 that I call my 'basecamp' fittings (which are all hives/uplinks), which I deploy when I want to setup shop somewhere, like a high tower or something. Being a good logi is about looking at the bigger picture. You have to know the maps well enough to know where most engagements tend to take place, and support those positions. After you've done it for long enough, you'll actually find that where you deploy equipment is actually a great non-verbal cue to noobs and squad-less teammates on where they should be on the battlefield -- it's a subtle way of directing the flow of the battlefield, without actually saying anything. It's more difficult these days, with all the equipment spam every damn place, but you can help by placing your equipment as smartly and logically as possible. Well said. This right here is how to logi. There's no role, or method of performing the logi role, that has a bigger effect on your team's ability to win the match than what J4yne describes.