Maken Tosch
DUST University
Ivy League
7754
   |
Posted - 2014.04.01 16:27:00 -
[1] - Quote
NO.
First off, to make the cloak even remotely viable in this current build you need to max out the scout dropsuit skill book. Unless you're at least level 4 in scouts, that cloak will be a hindrance. That means it will take more than just 500,000 SP just to use the ARN cloak effectively. You will need at least 2 million SP invested in the suit alone and that's NOT including the SP needed for Dropsuit Engineering and Dropsuit Electronics and other core fitting skills.
There is also the fact that the Minmatar Scout is relatively weak in PG compared to the rest of the scout lineup.
One more thing, brick tanking a cloaked scout will only make it easier for others to find you. Passive scans from Caldari Scouts can see you and light you up like a Christmas tree even with the cloak activated. Active scanners will also be able to pick you up so that just negates cloaking altogether if you can't hide your brick-tanked scout from scanners. Might as well just ditch the cloak and fit nanohives and REs instead in that case.
In order to avoid the scanners, you'll have to ditch the armor mods and slap on some profile dampeners. You'll be weaker than before and become more prone to getting killed by stray bullets but at least you won't be seen by anything other than a Duvolle Focused Active Scanner on a logi or a maxed out precision fit on a Caldari Scout.
So... working as intended.
Dedicated Scout // Ninja Knifer
Everything I know about the Caldari I learned at Nouvelle Rouvenor
|
Maken Tosch
DUST University
Ivy League
7756
|
Posted - 2014.04.01 17:52:00 -
[2] - Quote
Bormir1r wrote:KingBabar wrote:I think that some sacrifice should be expected when you're putting on the most effective and selfish Equipment there is. Being able to be invisible and shoot People in the back With a shotty is all well and good, but should I be able to put 700-800 HP, proto weapns and a cloak? Its a bit too much.
If this change were too be made the sneaky scouts could still do their job, sneaking past "enemy lines", hack and setup uplinks. You can still sneak up on someone and get that "stealth" kill, but you would then be weaker as a combat unit sacrificing some tank or indeed those expensive to fit fancy weapons.
I feel the suit I'm using is a little too good. The cloak is cheaper to fit than a decent nanohive, its not right. So true, but instead of increasing pg on cloaks, you could put a penalty on plates since they slow movement hence they could also be penalized for adding a cloak.
Honestly that seems like a great idea and a much better alternative.
If I am fitting plates on my suit, shouldn't I be slower since I have more weight imposed on my suit?
Dedicated Scout // Ninja Knifer
Everything I know about the Caldari I learned at Nouvelle Rouvenor
|