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Adipem Nothi
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Posted - 2014.07.11 15:45:00 -
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Over the past month, the Scout Community has been working hard to resolve what we consider to be the frame's biggest problems:
1) Under performance of MN and AM Scouts
2) Over performance of GA and CA Scouts
3) FoTM Assault Scouts outperforming Assault Frames
4) CA Scout scans exerting too much pressure on non-GA Scouts
We've covered at length many of the points raised in this thread and many, many others. Long story short, the majority of Old Scouts favor Rattati's proposed change. It isn't perfect, but we believe it to be better than many alternatives, and we believe it to be a step toward better interplay among all four Scouts (rather than just the current two).
You guys really should swing by the Barbershop and read the past 20 or 30 pages. You'll find lots of good (often differing) perspectives on these points from a variety of career-long Scouts, not a single one of whom wishes to prolong/protect the Scout's current FoTM status.
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Posted - 2014.07.11 15:49:00 -
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sabre prime wrote:
Please say it isn't so? Don't change too many variables at the same time! Basic science.
Moody's correct. EWAR specialization is currently the realm of CA and GA. Rattati's looking to spread it out over three:
AM - Precision
GA - Profile
CA - Range
Eventually, we hope he'll point these specializations toward their respective EWAR modules as a means of further discouraging FoTM tanky Scouts. In essence, it appears he wishes to do away with Assault Lite, and he has the Scout Community's support in doing so.
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Posted - 2014.07.11 16:30:00 -
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Stefan Stahl wrote:Adipem Nothi wrote:Eventually, we hope he'll point these specializations toward their respective EWAR modules as a means of further discouraging FoTM tanky Scouts. In essence, it appears he wishes to do away with Assault Lite, and he has the Scout Community's support in doing so. I really want range, precision and dampening to be separate roles. But I also want eWar to stay something that is in conflict with tanking, rather than being something you also put on your light assault suit additionally. What speaks against this model: Caldari -> precision Amarr -> range Gallente -> dampening Neither of these can be good at their eWar-thing while also having a ton of ehp. Everyone wins.
I'm all about improving the Amarr Scout, but an AM Scout with long range scans and massive tank potential would be OP; it would only serve to shift 'assault lite' from one scout frame to another (rather than to the actual assault frame).
The CA Scout scans are too strong at 15 dB; they exert an imbalanced degree of pressure on non-GA Scouts and afford their squadmates an imbalanced benefit. There are no "waves of opportunity" in terms of beating these scans; you're either a GA Scout or your scanned.
Trading roles with Amarr fixes the problem without breaking either, and opens up opporunity for each of four Scouts to become competitive.
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Posted - 2014.07.11 17:01:00 -
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Nocturnal Soul wrote:
P.s. squad share should be abolished
Absolutely agreed. That'd change everything.
Rattati looked into it already; seems unlikely :-(
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