At this point I am willing to let the cloak die in order to let the other buffs the scout has received, no matter how meager, persist. As feared, try-hards are abusing our beloved suit, corrupting the way of the ninja. This will not stand. The silly thing is the cloak is designed for UNTANKED scouts. Its supposed to be a mechanism of letting a light and fast suit move around the battle field without getting blapped at every turn. The cloak was supposed to be used in lieu of armor/shield stacking --- it was supposed to act as our defense when we had none. Now it is being abused and this makes me so sad because the cloak really is balanced. It gives you a chance for a high alpha, but at the same time is visible enough that it can be seen with the naked eye out more than 100 m away. It's being abused by what I will now refer to as "Triple-Tanked" Scouts. Armor. Shields. Cloak. It's simply too much.

Would any of you ladies and gentlemen care if the cloaking device went away? I haven't played my Gal scout much since 1.8 landed though I did fully skill into the cloak. I see on the forums that cloaked/brick tanked mini assaults are pissing people off. People are QQing about the cloak and other people are defending the device as if it was their dear sweet mother's honor. Personally what little I have used it I find the cloak kind of fun but absolutely unnecessary to effectively play a scout. I am not calling for it to be removed or nerfed, I can't say I really have an opinion on it yet, except in general I prefer to see counters to things added to the game as opposed to content taken out of the game or nerfed.

I can't say I'm an old school scout having only gotten into it a couple months before the update, but I have to admit I liked the scout suit being a little more rare. So what are you real scout vets opinion on cloaks?

People aren't using Scouts for the cloak, anyway, Cloaks are easy to spot, I love killing people who run around with it thinking they're completely invisible.

AKA me :(

I try to stand perfectly dead still and you people still manage to see me for some reason.

cloak is fun times, and not unbalanced. it's ridiculously easy to kill a cloaker, or die while using one.

The problem is what it always was: TTK is wonky, and CCP doesn't have good definitions for roles. Assaults and Scouts are too similar. I'd actually like it if scouts went back to Type II closed beta suits. 2 equip, No sidearm. We have the 2 equip now, why do we still have sidearm? Maybe let the amarr keep it's sidearm.

But that would help the Assault stand out more from the crowd.

Logi = 3 equip slots, bonus to equip use
Scout = 2 equip slots, very low signal, very high detection
Assault = 1 equip slot, sidearm included

Then I doubt anyone would care about "brick scouts" since they gave up raw power in exchange for speed, intel, and utility.