Really, as long as cloak abuse is still possible EWar balancing is utterly pointless, so I'm not sure why any effort was made.

Cloaks shouldn't damp and still be a ticket to a full first shot. Ideally they're neither, but both is ridiculous.

I don't mean to say the EWar changes would be good with working cloaks, either, just that it was pointless to try. I hope that the EWar escalation game encourages more people back into Assault suits but if it doesn't than you've simply homogenized the acceptable Scout builds.

by that logic no module can be classed any a module for any suit. scouts have the best hacking speed(making Codebreakers best on scouts), KinCat give the most benefit to scouts, and uplinks can be placed in the best spots faster with a scout. yes, proto uplinks may not be needed here, he is showing the pg issues, as that set up uses 4 of 11 slots.

but it shouldnt effortlessly make you invisible, and it doesnt. most ppl have determined that cloaks are trash... because theyre neither an effortless damp nor a free first shot most times simply bc if youre cloaked youre not invisible. hell, you glow blue!
sometimes cloaks even get you spotted even if your profile is low enough... all in all, there are a lot of decisions to weigh when wearing a cloak. even at lvl5 scout, when fitting a cloak, there is no "your suit will be gimped if you arent a scout", no instead you're deciding in what ways to gimp your suit and so that people can rage about your cloak while shooting your shimmer all day long. mostly i dont use cloaks because i have to choose whether i want to be invisible to the idiots with their nose down a scope or real players thatll knock the cloak off of me 9/10 of the time.l

if you think cloaks are being "abused" or if thats even doable, game balancing isnt your problem. you need to adjust your situational awareness is all, because cloaks are just as broken as they ought to be. even when cloak usage dies down i wouldnt give it another balancing pass. there is nothing at all wrong with cloaks. EWAR is broken as all get out though and i'm curious why minjas get bonuses to jobs that theyll get cut down trying to perform on account of CCP stole our damp bonus and gave it to calscouts

The damage should be 80 per pellet at basic (if there was one at std) 84 at adv, and 88 at proto. This would definitely make the breach more viable.

nope

Gal Scout unnecessary Precision bonus.

Gal Scout needs Profile Dumpting -5%/lv only. they are Spy. arenot Recon.

but no gal scout "spies"...they just sneak up on you to OHK you in the back.