Why fit it to run and cloak when it looks like you'll turn into a glow stick ever time you move so fast?

Looks like the emphasis for the cloak will be to walk more and take your time on the approach.

Not to mention you'll eventually need some dampening, especially if their's a decent Gal logi on the enemy team.

But the AK could run all that and even lose the shields for percision or sa damage mods, 10% damage to 200x15% for pro 5 still puts you over 1000 damage and not far behind a minja, jus saying could be a way better suit aside from not having the hack bonus

I might be alone in this but I've never used kin cats on any of my scouts. On my Minja knifer I'll be using a complex range amp, a complex damp, and a complex codebreaker. I'll drop the codebreaker if downgrading to advanced.

I plan to rely on the cloak, not speed, to stalk my enemy. If he turns around I'll freeze and become nearly invisible until he turns back around. The beauty of this too is that your stamina recharges very quickly (sub 4 seconds) so these little breathers will probably leave you with nearly full stamina by the time you reach your prey.

Besides, I don't know about you but I always try to use the charge swipe as my initial attack, and kin cats don't affect basic movement speed. So I'd have better luck keeping pace with a moving enemy with the faster Minja than the Amarr.

I might be alone in this but I've never used kin cats on any of my scouts. On my Minja knifer I'll be using a complex range amp, a complex damp, and a complex codebreaker. I'll drop the codebreaker if downgrading to advanced.

I plan to rely on the cloak, not speed, to stalk my enemy. If he turns around I'll freeze and become nearly invisible until he turns back around. The beauty of this too is that your stamina recharges very quickly (sub 4 seconds) so these little breathers will probably leave you with nearly full stamina by the time you reach your prey.

Besides, I don't know about you but I always try to use the charge swipe as my initial attack, and kin cats don't affect basic movement speed. So I'd have better luck keeping pace with a moving enemy with the faster Minja than the Amarr.

Playing with the proto fits link I was trying to fit 3xcomplex shields on a minmatar mko and a comp cardio, 2x kins, and ish knives and couldn't fit the pg, I don't even think I had a cloak on it.
Sorry I'm using my phone now but I ll post the comparison later.

But what I did do if memory serves, is I fit a AK.0 with :

Comp shield
Basic shield
Ish nk
Adv or basic mag( couldn't remember)
Compact hive
Adv cloak
Basic cardio ( which equals a complex 441 stamina I think)
3x kinetics

Has about 400 HP and runs 10.33 , min runs 10.38

I ll post the links later unless someone's bored and wants to compare trying to get the top speed, HP and stamina.

So fellow ninjas what's more important?

Damage, speed, stamina, back up weapon, HP , dual regen ( being able to do all this at once and still have a hive, on the min would you downgrade your speed to fit the hive and a sidearm or downgrade shields and lose HP )?

I'm curious to know what you think I'd more important, because with knive at pro 5 is it worth it to run it as a knife suit? The hack bonus is gonna be amazing and the damage is good but it seems the AK0 might be a vicious underdog .
To be able to move that fast and carry that much is pretty amazing.

Also if you dropped the basic shield you should be able to use a complex cardio and have 771 stamina and run 10.33 with 400+ HP .

I am seriously considering this as my Nk/ SHOT GUN FIT!

What do you think? Sorry I didn't post links it's too late here.

Why fit it to run and cloak when it looks like you'll turn into a glow stick ever time you move so fast?

Looks like the emphasis for the cloak will be to walk more and take your time on the approach.

Not to mention you'll eventually need some dampening, especially if their's a decent Gal logi on the enemy team.

Speed tanking doesn't work.

Damp, codebreaker, shield extenders, cloak, knives, re's

Using knives and not the Matari scout is costing you 25% damage.

Im not sure it will matter at what speed you're sprinting. CCP has given no indication whether the shimmer effect is a continuous function of speed or a discrete function of movement mode. For example, there has been no indication that a scout running at 10 m/a will shimmer more than a scout running at 9 m/s.

I think the more likely answer is that the shimmer effect will operate under a discrete function ie. there is an amount of shimmer for walking and a larger amount of shimmer for sprinting, regardless of speed. Such a system would be easier to implement regarding both processing load and on the source code level.

However, I do hope it works the way you are implying. That seems like the more appropriate solution.

doesn't fit.

I plan to rely on the cloak, not speed, to stalk my enemy. If he turns around I'll freeze and become nearly invisible until he turns back around.

Speed tanking doesn't work.

so what? what does it matter if YOU CANT FIT THE DAMN SCOUT!!!!??

Tell that to Lightening.

so what? what does it matter if YOU CANT FIT THE DAMN SCOUT!!!!??

And Delt, speed won't be dead in 1.8, faster scouts

Yes it does..... downgrade something other than the knives.

Edit:

I can fit proto knives, std RE's, proto cloak, 3 complexes shield extenders, complex codebreaker and complex dampner, also using an adv pg upgrade.

???
Since when did we get a speed buff in 1.8?