Draco Cerberus
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General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2014.04.07 21:12:00 -
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Pokey Dravon wrote:I think a lot of the dislike for how Logistics is working now, mostly stems from all of being quite a bit jaded due to the overall nerf to equipment. To us, all gear is crap now and each suit makes a single piece of gear 'normal'.
However look at it from the perspective of someone who never played before 1.8. To them there is no such thing as a crappy Uplink, it's just an uplink because that's all they've ever known, and that Amarr Logi suit turns that normal uplink into a badass uplink.
The only difference is the perception of whats going on. That being said its difficult for me to say the mechanic is a bad one, since the "problem" we see with it is really just in our perception of it, not the mechanic itself.
You are absolutely right, an uplink is an uplink so long as there is Viziam in the name...have you actually met any new players lately? My dislike for the Logistics role currently is the pidgeon holing that went on this build. The equipment nerf was ludicrous and way too extreme in the length of spawn times that uplinks currently get as well as the ability for a Heavy to suck a Wyrkomi hive dry in a handful of seconds. In addition to this having the rep distance on a rep tool reduced and then buffed for only one logistics suit is pretty silly, considering the "ALL LOGIS MUST BE HEALERS" stance many people in the community have taken.
Player X skills proto Amarr Logi to get fast spawns for his team. Player X is told we need you to rep Y Heavy so he stays alive. Player X then skills Proto Minmatar Logi because he needs the extra HP on the proto rep tool to keep his team mate up and mobile. 2.5 Mil SP later (so more than a month or two) Player X has his Minmatar Logi suit ready to go. Player X let his team down because the big PC battle was last week, no Minmatar Logi...
Yes this is a somewhat extreme example but in all reality it has removed a good deal of the usefulness in running a Logi as a Logi when a scout can do a fine job and basically be more effective due to a lower scan resolution, so theoretically lower death rate.
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