Reout Karaal
Doomheim
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Posted - 2012.08.20 13:53:00 -
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Mass Driver is a cool sounding method of annihilation, it's bad ass to run with and usually takes Scouts down in one pop. In previous build I've ran it up to Proto, but I would advice you to get a good grip on standard level, just to be sure if this is really what you want to do. Because in DUST these babies need a lot more love.
What's the problem it solves? I really tried to, but I could not find good use for MDs in the middle of the battle, even when I took kills for 50% of my shots (I've got a good feeling with hip shooting + complex light dmg mod + relevant skills up). The issue here is that sometimes grenades would just go missing -- no splash, no nothing, and the guy would gun me. So you're dropping a pill in front of a campy scout and nothing happens. Literally nothing, like that 'nade was never there. Or, more painfully, I would get a direct hit face to face (heavies are easy for target practice dance) and... nothing would happen. Grenade connects, but no sign, no shield damage, nothing. Like dropped in a wormhole. You can always tell yourself "duds happen", but with blank ratio of 20% you start to wonder. This may be even more painful for those new variants that have reduced splash damage and require you to connect, but YMMV.
Aiming MD is hard. Precision shooting is a joke, it actually makes things worse. The faster you master hip shooting the better. You can really mix things up by spamming few 'nades into a group of dancing people or campers, but any AR on the same level will put you down. Getting the hang of the flight path is hard for your foes as well, but this give you an edge only for so long. So golden rule of combat applies here: be above your enemy & know your weapon. It may also work as support role, but the precision is really not helping with this.
So what I did: proto MD, advanced SMG, REs, Sleek AV and called him "Demo". Blew some serious stuff up, but fighting with ARs was hard. Only played with it to **** people off with rain o' nades. Now I'd probably put AR instead of that MD.
tl;dr Had loads of fun. Did not better my KDR.
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