Hundredx Nails
Goonfeet
Special Planetary Emergency Response Group
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Posted - 2015.10.30 23:51:00 -
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Hey, I have been running Minmatar Scouts for about two years. I have a few points I would like to make, and maybe share some strategy with you. These are guidelines that I use with great effectiveness, but you can make it your own. I play to the suits strengths.
First of all, lets talk about Skills. We are talking about SCOUT suits, not LIGHT suits. The difference is based on the skill category. Scout suits receive bonuses to hacking speed, and knife usage per Minmatar Scout Dropsuit level. They are also the fastest moving scout suit based on its stats. Don't waste skill points bringing the racial light suit to level 5, there is no benefit to it added to Racial Scouts from its parent in the tree. That being said, make sure your core upgrades are all 5'd, as well as Dropout Electronics and Engineering. This will guarantee that you will be able to fit everything needed to do the job. the Skills I have just to run Minmatar Scout suits are the following
Dropsuit Command 1
>Minmatar Light dropsuit 3
>>Minmatar Scout dropsuit 5
Dropout Upgrades 4 (you receive no bonuses beyond unlocking the following branches no point in dumping SP into level5)
>>Armor 5
>>Biotics 5
>>Core 5
>>>Electronics 5
>>>Engineering 5
>>Shield 5
Secondly, you need to determine what the role of the Minmatar Scout is. Its Scout suit bonuses imply it is designed for infiltration and hacking (pg/cpu cost decrease on cloaking devices, and 5%bonus per level for hack speed), and GOD DAMN does it do well at that. But what skills benefit this role? Hacking Speed, Cloaking Devices, and of course Kinetic Catalyzation, Hand to Hand, Precision Enhancement, Profile Dampening, and Range Amplification. Now many of these skills you are taking just for the passive boosts. Specifically the Profile, Precision, and Range Skills. But You are going to for sure use Cloaks, Codebreakers, Kin Kats, and Myofibrils.
I am sure you have noticed that I have not included any fitted tanking skills. I do this for a reason. Armor and Shield mods take up valuable fitting slots. you have 3 Highs, 3 lows, and 2 equipment slots beyond your light and sidearm. You are going to have to forget everything you know about combat in Dust, because the scout game is different. Your armor is your ability to stay hidden, your shield is your speed. Your Cloak and movement speed are what will keep you alive while capturing objectives, and installations. It will also allow you to get the drop on enemies. If you take any skills make sure they give you a passive boost to your shields or armor, after the shield and armor upgrade skills i believe there are no passive bonuses. If memory serves correctly the skills increase module performance (this is active bonus).
The Minmatar scout's weapon of choice is of course the Nova Knife. But you don't need to always be using proto's or officers to kill people. Your role on the battlefield is more important than your ability to kill. Have your knife skills 5'd for damage boosts and fitting requirement bonuses, but that by no means obligates you to use only protos. I have more kills with basic knives, than I do with my prototypes. Your weapon load out is always the last thing you are going to fit to your suit when running scouts the way I do, modules that build your battlefield role are way more important than shooters. Another thing to consider is not using a Light Weapon... At all... The reasons for that is they take more PG/CPU than sidearms, and once again, your role doesn't put combat at the primary. Instead i rely on Scrambler pistols, and Knives, and more often than not i forego the use of grenades.
The last thing I want to cover is Fitting your suits. Standard, Advanced, Proto, all will follow the same build order. Cloak > Lows > Highs > Knives > Everything else. I always prioritize Hacking speed to movement, simply because you are typically stationary when you hack. The faster you can get off the hack, the better your chances are at escaping without dying. You will always Always ALWAYS hack while cloaked. I can add more to this if you guys are interested, and I am more than happy to share my fits when i get a chance to. |