One Eyed King
Land of the BIind
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Posted - 2014.10.26 22:32:00 -
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CeeJ Mantis wrote:
I prefer adjusting numbers that fix the scout's inherent unscannability, so that they have more appealing options than brick out. Seems like a better fix to me.
Scouts already have to sacrifice a lot (save for Gallente) in order to remain truly unscannable (you have to remember the Gal Logi bonus), the numbers have to be this way.
IF you make them scannable, with no way to hide, their is no reason for them not to brick tank. Without the benefits of EWAR, HP tanking is the ONLY recourse.
This will do one of two things:
1) This will mean more tanked scouts, lots more, tons more.
2) This will likely mean the return to irrelevance of the scout role, as there would be ZERO incentive to run them over medium frames.
We already saw something similar with Alpha. Once the cloak dampening was taken away, and Minamatar and Amarr scouts could not avoid scans, you saw next to zero Minmatar and Amarr scouts, particularly in competitive environments.
There is a much EASIER and less destructive way of encouraging EWAR over HP, and that is to remove passive EWAR bonuses and focus them on modules so scouts have to use modules slots they would have used for HP to dampen.
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One Eyed King
Land of the BIind
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Posted - 2014.10.26 23:03:00 -
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CeeJ Mantis wrote:
You don't NEED to be literally unscannable to be a good scout. A Gal logi using 1 really good scanner scout be able to see stuff. That's the only thing they have going for them over other logis. Scouts now are so hard to scan. If they become easier to scan, then running 2 ewar mods and a cloak will be a more attractive option. Make cloaks have 5db better dampening so they can hide better, but not not all the time. Just while cloaked. These are just some ideas. There are better solutions to things besides making it stupid to fit only 1 or 2 hp mods. so you don't die.
Yes, yes you do need to be unscannable, providing you make enough sacrifice. Otherwise, Minmatar and Amarr would not have had a problem between Alpha and Charlie, but they did. A huge problem. They were barely there. Even long time scouts who play a lot of PC were abandoning Minmatar because they could be scanned.
Otherwise, you are just talking HP in terms of advantages, and that simply isn't an option. If you are scanned and have 300 HP, vs scanned and 1000 HP, you are going to take the 1000 HP.
That isn't balanced, period.
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