Yes the min scout needs a buff like this big time.

Response that is based in misunderstanding

Why skill into a whole suit just to speed hack?

Get a Gal Scout and stack it with 4 CBs and you'll be close enough not to know the difference.

For as many people that have huge amounts of SP and are willing to respec, they could easily just ditch the Min Scout, keep their Gal Scout, and have a scout close enough to a Minja for it not to matter.

They can stack KCs for speed, and CBs for hacks.

The ONLY thing they can't stick a mod on for is stamina regen, which can be negated by just throwing on a Cardiac Reg and having a big enough stamina pool not to matter.

The Minmatar Scout's racial bonus will become a 5% bonus to hack and melee speed per level.

2) Knives are plenty viable on frames other than MinScout; they simply shine when run on a MinScout. I still see no reason to retire the hack-and-slash archetype; it is a good, fun archetype to have.

I've killed thousands of mercs with knives on suits other than my MinScout. I run Knives on my CalScout with an ARR; it's a decent loadout; you should try it sometime. I've run knives on my GalScout as well off and on for the past couple years; it isn't bad when paired with AR, Bolt or SMG.

PS: I still play, by the way, though admittedly not as much as I'd like to. Pushing 90M SP and still in the top 100 in global kills (or very close to it).

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Oh they're viable on other frames gustavo... just not non-scout frames (aside from the incredibly stupid shotgun / knife min assaults that have popped up recently). I'm relatively okay with this, but I do get really annoyed with how religiously scouts guard the shotgun: rather than having it be a decent 'option' for most/all suits in short range fights, it is relegated strictly to the hands of the scout which is the only suit that has the combination of footspeed and dampening required to make it work.

I do hope you'll be able to put away your epeen and try to focus on the topic at hand. Not sure why you're keen on pounding chest; I've well over twice your kills, well over twice your KDR, and I was running Scout suits long before you found your way to the frame while chasing FoTM. If you're able to calm yourself down and pay attention, friend, there is a good chance you might learn something.

Nova Knives on a MinScout provide alpha sufficient to insta-gank almost any unit in the game. The fact that MinScouts are extremely squishy and easier to scan than GA/CA Scouts provide mechanical counterbalance to this potent alpha strike. If this same alpha potential could be wielded by higher-hitpoint units, the risk of knifing would decline and the reward would hold constant; knives would likely become OP. Further, if this same alpha potential were wielded by CA and GA Scouts -- who can duck competitive scans with only one damp -- knives would likely become OP.

Rattati has made it clear that he wishes for all reasonable playstyles to be competitively viable. Speed and stealth-oriented, low-HP playstyles are reasonable playstyles, and the only way that these can compete is through high-risk, high-reward alpha takedown. If high-alpha weaponry is wielded just as effectively by high-HP loadouts, low-HP loadouts become that much less competitive.

1. It is a fact that MinScout kill/spawn efficiency is currently among the lowest in the game.

2. Prior to falloff, Shotgun efficiency was among the highest of all light weapons despite its severely limited optimal range.

3. The MinScout's racial bonus to Knives is a major talking point in this thread.

4. Because the Base HP of Assault, Commando and Heavy base preclude them from being low-HP units.

5. I seriously doubt that Rattati is happy with the state of King HP. Low-HP playstyles have every right to be competitively viable; the fact that they presently are not is a balance issue. As we speak, there's an open Dev thread on the subject (Speed/eHP Curve).

6. I think it probable that GalScout and CalScout knifers would become overpowered if granted the MinScout's present alpha; their slot configs and racial bonuses permit them to dampen and simultaneously maintain comparatively decent HP. Giving these units better alpha potential would introduce new imbalance.

Gallente scouts are the most used. They are only very rarely dethroned, according to the market data.

Minmatar scouts aren't doing too badly, close behind Gallente scouts, in usage. However, according to Rattati's data, the Min scout has the second worse k/s of all (non-basic) proto suits, after Min logis.