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Ice Royal Glantix Heaven's Lost Property 72	Posted - 2015.02.01 23:40:00 - [1] - Quote I have never understood why people say Caldari is "hard mode". Before I go further, I will first grant a bit of my Dust back story. For my first year and a half of playing, I developed a nasty habit of restarting every few weeks/day, and have made around 150 characters over my time playing. Because of this habit, I was constantly playing with characters under 2mil sp. Also, anyone who knows me know I am a HUGE Caldari fan. I have played in Caldari suits on low sp character for as long as I have been playing Dust, and I have never thought them as being underpowered in terms of the suit itself, though I will admit I wish some of there bonuses could be better. This means most of my Dust experience was spent in Caldari Assaults or Logistics, though as of late I have been using the Commando. From my experience, this would be my simplified opinion on the topic of Caldari suits: Caldari Gëá Hard mode; Caldari = Smart mode. As long as you know how to run a Caldari Suit, and make sure you are aware of nearby cover, you will do fine. A Caldari player who knows how to run the suit and plays it using its strengths is damn near unkillable. The only thing I think shields need is a damage threshold for shield regen, because it is a bit silly to have one point of damage restart your regen cycle; but that is it. Nothing else needs to change. Shield regen in incredibly powerful as is, and this is coming from someone who mains a CalMando(My shields take over half a minute to fully recharge, and I feel like that is pretty balanced). Caldari suits are solo ranged skirmishers. They are not close range brawlers like the Gallente, they are not long range brick tanks like the Amarr, and they are not the teamwork based close quarters skirmishers that the Minmatar are. Caldari suits play completely differently than every other race's suits, and this seems to be a concept people don't understand. I won't complain if shield extenders gain a buff, but I will advise you that that is probably not a good idea. This post is purely opinion, but it is based off of first hand experience. I know as I am a tactical Caldari player who has played against even better Caldari players. Hopefully I changed at least one person's opinion with this post, but I guess we will see. Sincerely, Glantix / Ice "Don't be dead; be happy!" Aim to please. Shoot to kill. I watch anime for the romance and the tears. :'(

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