Gotta say, I strongly disagree.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Min scout, and I'm really glad it's finally good enough to play with the big boys. But its not the strongest scout.

The fact is, shotguns are superior cqc weapons to nova knives, even with the Min scout damage bonus. The only reasons I use knives over the shotgun are:
1. You can use a light weapon as well. This gives you a slightly better ranged option. This allows more tactical options, even though you are weaker than a shotgun scout up close. Though pairing an smg or bolt pistol with a shotgun is nearly as good. If you stick to cqc, an smg is all you need outside of shotgun range.
2. Those rare occasions where you get a stealthy knife kill and it's helpful to prevent you from drawing attention to yourself. This makes me feel badass, rather than being reliably useful.
3. Kudos. Most people would agree that a knife kill takes more skill than a shotgun, so kills feel better. Maybe I just suck, but I still find getting kills with knives more challenging than most weapons.

EWAR may have been nerfed on scouts. Gallente logi active scans are now the king of scans. They may not be all that common, but they are common enough to give Gal and Cal scouts an advantage by allowing them to avoid detection using one less slot that a Min or Am scout.

Hack speed is good, but is isn't any more useful than dampening. A slightly faster hack speed will not help in most situations. Being able to fit an extra mod as you don't need as many damps is useful. Also, scout passive scans may have been toned down, but they are still a factor, and the fact remains that Min scouts are the worst at this.

Fitting capability. The low pg still punishes Min scouts compared to other scouts. Kinetic catalysers, codebreakers, cloaks and uplinks are all very pg intensive. It's much easier to fit a Gal, Am or Cal scout than a Min.

Not trying to moan, I think Min scouts are great. Its just that I have to disagree with the idea they are superior to Caldari and Gallente scouts. Amarr maybe, but not the others. Even if Min scouts were the best, it's definitely would't be by a wide enough margin to be an issue.

This statement is especially incorrect. The GalScout is the most versatile Scout. The moment your enemy fields a GA Logi + 28dB scanner, the MinScout's universe of feasible builds is pigeon-holed into only a handful of options. Of all Scouts, the Minmatar is the easiest to counter and the least versatile.

This is why when CCP gave out the free respec I got out of scouting and stopped communicating or having anything to do with other scouts. Scouts are the whiniest crybabies in this game and I do not wish to be lumped in with you. Now that cloaks have been fixed and the suits tuned down to appropriate levels I do rock my cal scout again.

I use 1 complex range, damp, and precision. I see everything but heavily damped scouts before they can close the ground on me. I use the cloak to get away or to travel across open ground only.

I use the suit and tools as intended, but majority of scouts believe they should be special forces capable of taking out full squads easily and undetected like some COD rock star. And that whining about the gal scanner, its scan only last 7 seconds. Can you all not hide for that long really?

tl;dr scouts are no longer easy mode FOTM, and takes skill like all suits should be.

@gustavo acosta- Thank you for proving my point. All I saw was a brick wall of tears that scouts should see everything at all distances, and be completely unseen. Ewar is viable and it does not need to fill up all of your slots. You should have to choose between the type of ewar to be best at, or be well above the average in all. Demanding or expecting to have all three is just unrealistic and has been proven to be too powerful.

I personally decided to be above average, and the only people that can scan me are other scouts or heavily ewared logistics (you know the ones that fill there whole suit with ewar thus sacrificing alot). The only people that can sneek up on me are other scouts.