Aria Gomes wrote:Magnus Amadeuss wrote:Knight Solitaire wrote:I just don't think they're getting enough speed for the HP they sacrifice. Yes, you can get an amazing speed tank with Kin Cats, but its incredibly PG intensive.
Slightly increase their speed, excluding the Min Scout, and increase the PG of the Min Scout by just a little.
Can I ask you something seriously? Why is it always "increase minmatar PG" rather than decrease kin-cat PG requirements? I honestly don't understand it.
Minmatar have the least PG and the most CPU(should be 2nd most CPU and 2nd least PG), this is to reflect their high-slot bias, but none of you ever address the PG requirements of shields and kin-cats.... you only want a buff for the minmatar suits. Why is that? Do you think that you guys should be the only ones who can easily fit kin-cats??
Honestly the PG of shields don't bother. It's not too bad. It's kin cats when compared to cardiac regulators where the PG is like omfg stupid PG! I think we mainly say give more PG because if you stack kin cats you can't really fit anything else. Speed tanking is very much sacrifice everything else from weapon, health, equipment for crazy speed. I won't lie though the speed has gotten me out of sticky situations but I've also gotten killed by high DPS weapons where my body just freezes up. Since I'm extra squishy from having all the speed, I die faster than the other scouts around me.
That's probably the only qualm people have with Minmatar Scout.
the key to the speed is that you use it to ensure you dont get shot at in the first place.
positional advantage is about making sure that each and every single fight you have involves you shooting them without them shooting you back. if they so much as point a weapon at you you turn tail and GTFO to either set up in a position to finish them off when they try to advance on your previous position, or to flank and try to re-engage them from a completly different direction.
the speed is key to that as it means you have your position and you weapons ready and pointed before the enemy can get their barings on your position each and every single time you fight, and if things even give the slightist whiff of going not so perfectly in your favor you can high tail it out of there and theres nothing they can do to stop you as tehy would have to be able to catch you first.