Kigurosaka Laaksonen
DUST University
Ivy League
745
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Posted - 2014.04.10 00:37:00 -
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A few things I noticed and want to share my thoughts on in no particular order.
Cover
It's been said that a CalSent should run for cover. If you're not hugging cover at every second you could get shot (that's every second), you're screwed. You can't exactly sprint very fast. I don't see anything wrong here, except the idea that 'cover' is this omnipresent amorphous entity that is everywhere at all times that we can just 'get to' whenever we get shot. Sometimes there just isn't adequate cover. You're gonna get shot. You're probably gonna die.
HP
As for HP totals, meh. They feel fine where they're at now. When total HP is added up, the CalSent and GalSent both have 1144 (rounded up, no skills, no mods.) CalSent and GalSent have 525 shield/armor respectively, and 390 armor/shield respectively. That's literally 'opposite sides of the same coin.' That's the pattern for HP totals in all of DUST. That being said, I wouldn't mind shaking that pattern up. It's shallow and restrictive. In this case, reducing the CalSent's armor HP and raising the shield HP by an equal (or very minimally larger) amount.
Solo / Mid-Long Range
Someone mentioned that the CalSent is better suited for solo work and mid-long range. That's fine, but it means you won't be using an HMG and likely not a Forge Gun. That means a Rail Rifle, baby!  Seriously though, let's get some more Heavy Weapon variety (not variants of existing weapons) in the game. I like heavies. I like heavy weapons. I want to use heavy weapons on my heavy suit. There's only so long I can run with an HMG or Forge Gun, though, before it gets dull.
My CalSent
My preferred style is to make strengths stronger and try to avoid situations where weaknesses come in to play. The CalSent's strength is a large shield HP pool, lots of shield regen, and short recharge delays. My PRO CalSent fit (when I get there) will look like this.
2x Complex Shield Recharger
2x Complex Shield Extender
1x Complex Shield Regulator
PRO Assault HMG
PRO Magsec SMG
ADV M8 Packed Locus grenade
Fit made in protofits with max skills.
-The Assault HMG has an effective range just shy of 75m but much less DPS than the other HMGs. I would likely swap the Assault HMG for a Burst HMG. But the Assault HMG is harder to fit, so I fit it just to show it could be done.
-The Rechargers are iffy, they could easily be Energizers (but downgrade the Assault HMG to a Burst or normal to get the CPU.) I'm not a fan of the Energizers because the ~12% penalty (a little less due to stacking penalties) to shield HP would be a huge amount of the CalSent's large shield HP pool. This fit would lose ~75 shield HP for only 18HP/s more regen. So I lean to the Rechargers, but when I get to this fit I would try the Energizers, and if my survivability is better, I would have no problems running energizers.
-Extenders play up it's high shield HP. Simple.
-The Regulator plays up the CalSent's biggest strength, the low recharge delays. This is critical. Extenders penalize only depleted shield recharge delay. Your depleted delay is 1s (penalized by the Extenders, so a tiny bit higher) and normal delay is 4s. Generally, if your shields get depleted, you're taking armor damage. You won't last long, either in that single fight or getting chipped away at. If you win the fire fight, generally, your shields won't get depleted, so that 1 depleted delay is no help. The key is the normal delay. The Regulator brings the depleted delay down to 0.83s, compensating for the Extender penalty and going further to improve it, but more importantly it brings the normal recharge delay down to 2.9s. That's huge.
On a side note, buff complex regulators from 25% to 30%. Also, get this new stuff in the LP stores!
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Kigurosaka Laaksonen
DUST University
Ivy League
745
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Posted - 2014.04.10 00:41:00 -
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Shinobi MumyoSakanagare ZaShigurui wrote:prototype as the measuring stick
The 'measuring stick' I have available is max skills in protofits and use prototype, or zero skills and have protofits tell me I'm not skilled into anything. I'm not going through the effort of entering some custom skill set that the community could agree is a good standard.
Yeah, I used max skills and prototype. That's the highest bar. Everything else compares to that. I make a CalSent fit with max skills and prototype, and I make a GalSent with max skills and prototype to compare. Strangely, the standard is to use max skills in EVE's fitting tool and work backwards from there. Deal with it.
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Kigurosaka Laaksonen
DUST University
Ivy League
745
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Posted - 2014.04.10 12:26:00 -
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Shinobi MumyoSakanagare ZaShigurui wrote:
Who the **** are you and I wasn't aware that WE were in a conversation .
Wasn't about YOU then and will not make it about you NOW .
Go e-peen somewhere else .
Oh man, this guy is great. I'm sorry, we're posting on a public forum. I didn't realize you had some kind of exclusivity agreement with the other posters. Parson me if I stepped on your tender toes.
You're wrong. The way you think things should work is not the way they actually work. I told you how they worked. You're a twit, and you stand behind your principles. Your actions support the fact that you have an empty head.
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