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Scheneighnay McBob
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Posted - 2014.04.18 13:39:00 -
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A friend of mine who plays Eve recently downloaded Dust. When he asked me what a nice and versatile suit is, I suggested that he skill either into assaults or commandos.
Although he doesn't yet have assault suit skills, he's currently running minmatar medium frames and republic assaults.
I ran a 2-man squad with him yesterday, and he actually did pretty damn well for a new player. Usually in the middle (sometimes higher, sometimes lower) of the scoreboard despite being new, using a "gimped" suit.
I need to make a point in asking him what his main fit is (all I know is that it uses a breach AR, just skilled into damage mods, and he says flanking is half the battle), but this definitely tells me something:
The community is doing something very wrong if assaults are underpowered.
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Scheneighnay McBob
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Posted - 2014.04.18 13:46:00 -
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pagl1u M wrote:So a friend of you did pretty well in a full day of play in an assault suit? This clearly and without any doubt scientifically prove that assaults arent UP!
Someone fresh out of the academy did well in a standard assault suit, while I hear people bitching about them being gimped on the forums all the time.
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Scheneighnay McBob
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Posted - 2014.04.18 13:48:00 -
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Joel II X wrote:The Caldari and Gallente bonuses are crap. Especially the Gallente one since it only helps 2 racial weapons perform at their peak. The Amarr and the Minmatar assaults help out by covering their racial weapons' weaknesses. The Caldari and assault try to do that, but don't help much. Especially the Gallente. How the hell is a Plasma Cannon going to benefit from fire dispersion?
"Only helps 2 racial weapons"
Gallente have 4 racial weapons, and it actually helps 3 of them.
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Scheneighnay McBob
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Posted - 2014.04.18 14:05:00 -
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If you really want, I can put my minmatar heavy thing on hold and go into assaults myself. Whatever kind you want.
A thing to remember, however, is that it's caldari weapons that are gimped- not their assaults. Charging is just idiotic.
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Scheneighnay McBob
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Posted - 2014.04.18 14:12:00 -
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da GAND wrote:Scheneighnay McBob wrote:If you really want, I can put my minmatar heavy thing on hold and go into assaults myself. Whatever kind you want.
A thing to remember, however, is that it's caldari weapons that are gimped- not their assaults. Charging is just idiotic. But once it starts firing they are weapons to be feared, especially that damn rail rifle.
I just don't like wasting bullets by firing when I don't need to- but hey, the caldari assault bonus helps make up for that.
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Scheneighnay McBob
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Posted - 2014.04.18 14:18:00 -
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Rynoceros wrote:Assaults aren't terrible.
They just aren't as awesome as everything else, now that every other class has been modified somewhat properly. Comparatively speaking, the Bonuses are the weak spot for what should be the "go-to" slayer suit. Fitting a proper frontline type Assault has always been difficult, with restrictive CPU/PG for the pawn's job it should be doing.
If you can do well in an Assault, you'll do amazing in anything else.
But the assault isn't a slayer suit- it's the everything suit.
Commandos are slayers, but aren't fast enough to harass
Sentinels are area-denial, but can neither support nor harass
Logistics are support, but that's about all they can do
Scouts are harassers, but don't have the health to slay or be area-denial
Assaults are decent at all of these
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Scheneighnay McBob
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Posted - 2014.04.18 14:20:00 -
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But seriously, name an assault and I'll start skilling into it.
I'm bored.
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Scheneighnay McBob
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Posted - 2014.04.18 14:25:00 -
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Well, the posts I've been seeing have decided for me:
It seems to be up in the air between caldari and gallente assaults. Caldari are shield tanks, which are also considered to be gimped.
Much as I hate their weapons, I'll run caldari assault.
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Scheneighnay McBob
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Posted - 2014.04.18 14:41:00 -
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Delanus Turgias wrote:Scheneighnay McBob wrote:Joel II X wrote:The Caldari and Gallente bonuses are crap. Especially the Gallente one since it only helps 2 racial weapons perform at their peak. The Amarr and the Minmatar assaults help out by covering their racial weapons' weaknesses. The Caldari and assault try to do that, but don't help much. Especially the Gallente. How the hell is a Plasma Cannon going to benefit from fire dispersion? "Only helps 2 racial weapons" Gallente have 4 racial weapons, and it actually helps 3 of them. It only affects light weapons, so Ion Pistol gets nothing, silly.
Just checked- it's sidearms too/
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