I found my new love today, shotgun scouts.. so I started investing SP into it.. any suggestions from those of you who have been doing it for a while? I've just been using the free HK4M shotguns I had a ton of, which has been very good.. but they're not unlimited. Do I need to break down and invest in speed or stamina mods? I can use damps and naturally complex damage mods also.. but typically go with shields. Suggestions welcome.

Thanks to all the heavies who let me beat on you, and especially the one I circled 2-3 times, unloading countless rounds and who still killed me. Either I missed a ton, or you were in proto everything.

Don't use shield extenders if your going for a sensor dampened scout. Shields increase your signature radius.

Do you know by how much? I know it does in EVE, wasn't sure if they translated that over or not.

I run a shotgun scout while currently training for hav tanks. basically because I don't have to put any skill points in to it to be effective. I run with a dragon fly dropsuit, I have basic shield recharger and a militia armor rep to help with survivability if you have toxic sub machine gun add that and add some grenades. I currently have a 2.0+ kdr

Being a shotgun scout you cant run straight at an enemy you will die because you have no range. You have to flank or guess where they're going and go there. If you get caught in a firefight move side by side and jump a lot. The key is to keep moving.

if you call in your lav drive around looking for red dots, once you get close either run them over or jump out shoot them and jump back in and repeat. It's called a murder taxi.I hope this helped.

For me, stealth and speed are the way to go. Profile dampeners are my friends. Sneaking round to find a good spot for a drop link by an enemy held objective is cool, as is popping up behind snipers who are too lost in their sights to look around.

Yes speed, stealth, and your shot gun are the most important things for a scout shotgun. Try training these type of skills.

Thanks for the ideas all.. I think the shotgun I'm most interested in is the one with longest optimal range. I've been playing kinda suicidal, with a big shield buffer and just diving in and melting faces.. I've even closed range face to face with HMG heavies and won, or nearly won, mostly due to moving around like a madman. I'm just not sure if damps or 5-10% speed boosts is worth losing a lot of shields. Perhaps if I play cautiously and try not to die (always a good thing) they would help, but I may just have to try them and see how they work with my playstyle.

My damp and dropsuit scanning skills are level 3 or so to all of them, I'll look at my range and see if that's got anything.. and slowly work those up also. Man I wish we had cloaks.