Kaze Eyrou
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2014.10.18 09:48:00 -
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Leovarian L Lavitz wrote:Right now Ewar is binary, and I believe it creates all sorts of problems.
My solution to my perceived imbalance follows.
Binary Ewar
Right now, Scouts detect everything and hide from everything.
And that's where I stopped reading, at least for the moment.
As someone who has 2 scouts, both of which are fit for EWAR, I can do good detection, but I can't detect EVERYTHING. Amarr scouts detect down to 17 (rounded up to 18 I believe) passive scans, which I then have fitted Range Amps in order to boost out my range far enough to see up to 60m out. Doing so, I give up my ability to dampen and if anyone spots me, I'm dead. This suit is also not a killer and is very paper thin, so my job is to provide tactical data which I relay both on TACNET and verbally to my teammates about enemy locations. The only times I will engage is at long to extreme ranges where I know I can either quickly take down an enemy or injure/distract them long enough to have teammates finish them off, or lead them to a trap.
On Gal scout I have my dampened fit which I can use effectively to hide from all EWAR. However, even despite my precision bonus, I can't see everything (to top it off, Gallente has the WORST ability to passive scan compared to all the other scouts when fitted with max Precision Enhancers). 2 Damps with hide me easily but between not wanting to give up speed and not having a proper shotgun or a good sidearm, I'm left to be a hit and run scout that has trouble taking down targets. Going up against another scout is even more challenging since it can become a standoff/mind-game with balancing your cloak timers, watching for other threats, and making sure your watching for the cloak shimmer.
Going for an EWAR Paper-Rock-Scissors would admittedly be interesting, but you forget one fatal flaw in this whole equation. Mobility. Heavies will detect Mediums? Ok, I'm sure Mediums are going to like that, but then they are still immune to Scouts which have the alpha damage and damage potential to still blow them away. Now mediums could detect scouts but how would they dispatch them? Sure you could do long range precision weapons, but usually by the time you spot them, if they are good scouts, they get away. Chasing after them only serves to use up all your stamina while the scout can still run a marathon and is miles closer to their target than you are in a medium.
Which then brings me to scouts. Heavies are still big fat juicy targets on EWAR and now, mediums are side dishes aka targets waiting to happen. What this means is scouts can easily pick off mediums using their eyes, and knowing where the heavy is at all times, they can choose to finish off the heavies at any given time. Congratulations, you just buffed the scouts by giving them the ability to discern between a medium suit and a heavy suit.
Not to mention how would cloaks works and what would the different ranges be but I'll leave it at that for now.
Closed Beta Vet // Logi Bro // @KazeEyrou
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