Bormir1r
Fatal Absolution
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Posted - 2014.03.31 17:32:00 -
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In pre-1.8 I hardly saw any scouts. Nowadays in 1.8 I only see Gallente and Caldari Scouts. I understand that they are really good, but you can't ignore the potential of other suits. Whenever I'm in a battle I only see 1 other minmatar scout, and all the other scouts are gal and cal. There's so much you can do with the minmatar yet a majority of the people choose to go with the FOTM scouts (i.e. Gal and Cal) and brick tank them to Hell turning into the new "assaults." However if you really know how or want to know how to use a scout, the Minmatar scout is an amazing choice to choose.
Sure I'll concede that the Minmatar has the lowest tanking damage, but that's not it's function, if you use it's speed properly, you can dominate matches. Yesterday I went 45/6 in my advanced minja. The speed and stamina balance out the disparity it has with the lower base eHP. The minja also has the highest hacking speed you'll ever see in this game being able to hack points in less than 4-5 seconds depending on your hacking speed levels and codebreaker mods. In addition to the highest sprinting speed if you decide to gimp your suit with 3 kin cats (providing 11.12m/s) and out speeding any suit in this game (although it doesn't make much of a difference when you compare it to the gal's 11.11m/s) However you still get 10.38 m/s with only 2 kin cats and 9.35m/s with 1 leaving lots of room for flexibility for dampners/stamina mods/ plates (etc.). The moment you hit over 9m/s you can outflank a large number of players. Furthermore the stamina regen. is also the highest in the game pushing 63.00 (higher than amarr btw) when you have full biotic skills and without any stamina mods whatsoever and allowing you to have a full stamina bar within 4-5 seconds after it has been depleted. Nova Knives are another perk for the Minjas and can own any light, medium and some heavies with one slash if you have at least prof. 3. Complimenting this with the cloak is extremely useful and can drop squads if you come up behind them.
WIth so much emphasis on stamina and speed, the minja is an utter beast when it comes to CQC. People underestimate the minja because of it's limited base eHP and their belief in eHP > speed, but in the long run, it is speed that can save you from that last bullet and evade death.
"One does not simply" look for a scout, it looks for you.
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