Kallas Hallytyr
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Posted - 2014.07.17 00:45:00 -
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voidfaction wrote:I guess you didnt get the memo
cal scout is losing the precision bonus and getting profile and range bonus.
What is your issue exactly? The CalScout will still be able to scan a long way at very low precision? It just will not be able to do so for minimal investment post-Charlie.
This is a good thing, balance-wise, and only those who are FotM chasers should really complain. The CalScout can still be an effective Scout hunter, unless those Scouts are sacrificing just as much (possibly more) to evade all scans, at which point the Caldari has an advantage over the Amarr where it can have long, long range scans to detect medium/heavy suits while tanking effectively.
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Kallas Hallytyr
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Posted - 2014.07.17 03:13:00 -
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voidfaction wrote:20db is not very low precision. Nobody is going to wast 4 slots for 20db precision.
cal scout at proto will be the only option to be worth running with 4 shield entenders and 2 cDampeners. std and adv will be worthless and proto only to shield tank.
It is low. Thing is, either you make scanning so powerful that dampening is entirely moot, or you make dampening worthwhile, but only at the extreme - that is, it can dodge everything but at a high cost, which is what we're looking at right now.
Dampening only ever affects a single person: the person who is dampening their suit.
Scanning, even if we pretend the future removal of squad sharing is now, affects many people, simple because of communication being able to translate that data into information for your squad mates to act upon.
With extreme dampening evading all scans, period, you're looking at a cold war of damps vs scans: scans can never catch a fully dampened scout, but fully dampening requires an enormous trade-off in terms of survivability and potential EWar fitting, maybe you fit enough to evade most scans..then that 20db CalScout has value in catching those Scouts trying to run less damp-heavy.
It's swings and roundabouts: if your high slots for precision are not worthwhile..skill into Amarr.
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