There is one main reason why all weapons seemed overpowered, people keep using militia gear expecting to beat better gear. Solutions number one spend your skill points! Why was my TAR and other ARs considered op? Modded controllers -.- what a cop out, more sp another cop out, I know something you don't? Maybe it's called spend your skill points and specialize. But now since everything is flatten and takes little skill now your militia gear is basically the same as my proto gear. The only things worth speccing into are lasers(which are truly overpower by the damage they can put out compared to other weapons), grenades, heavies or vehicles(which I consider childish/ easy). So here is your first lesson! Now get out of your cheap militia gear and spend your skill points and isk there is not point in stockpiling

Yea, frankly its only cause of this nerf that i can compete. Im a freelancer with no corp and the first thing i did with my aur was buy miltia BPO for everything so that every game i played was pure profit.

Because of the nerf, i havent felt the need to spec into adv dropsuits at all instead focusing entirely on circuitry, mechanics, shield boost, shileld control.

Weaponry, operation, sharpshooter.

By making my free stuff stronger and myself less squishy alongside the current nerfs i can compete against almost anyone including proto suits. Especially with flux nades and MD or exile AR.

But thats the point i didnt try spread myself too thin i made sure to build my character right.

It's like a house, start with a good foundation and then everything else falls into place. Im 10 days into my new "main" character and it only has 1.7m SP. I know exactly where im going and im not even thinking about getting to logi III-IV variant dropsuit when i can maximize the efficiency of my militia by building up my natural shield/armor/pg/cpu through skills and with it better extenders/armor.

Edit- I think thats the mistake ppl make is they spec into higer level dropsuit too early rather than spending their SP to get the most out of their free/basic stuff. Especially BPO stuff which sucks since they currently can only be bought with AUR. But by maximizing that you can generate enough profit to buy the skill books in quick time while having enough SP to boost the things that matter. I mean build up the natural max shields and armor along with weapon damage with SP is a far better long term financial plan than trying to sustain that through ISK consuming modules. But like i said it really comes down to "spending" the AUR on BPO, which by the way is <7K AUR=$3.50 to fully run BPO everything and have every BPO equipment if you only purchase the one dropsuit suited for your class.

Heavies obviously get screwed and just another example of why they aren't as OP as ppl want to believe they are.

I mean im thinking about my build and how it will be a month or two from now, not how will i be ready by next week.

What sucks is the reset is coming and all of this is for naught.

Flattening the damage was a terrible way to go because now there is so very little reason to use proto weapons it removes a big part of the game. And obviously the militia shotgun needed more damage.

Fittings now are more of a personal preference than ever and "stop sucking" is really the only advice you can give.

Play more ambush games. Especially after you start hitting diminishing returns in terms of SP. The games are shorter and the payouts are the same, this will increase your profit margins very quickly.

Also might help getting the BPO stuff, yea i know paying AUR sucks and perhaps you have some principle against it. But for $3.50 worth of AUR you can fund a full BPO suit, best of all the tier I BPO suits have at least 1 more high powered module, increasing their durability just a bit more.

I mean there is little else worth paying real money for but for items that wont be lost when you die is definitely worth the money, especially when you consider you get it back next reset and official launch by which time the secondary market will hopefully have a way for you to get it with isk, though by the time you generate that much isk not sure if you will want them.

Wait you are still using militia gear? Why to prove what point?

All new players, don't follow this example. Get better suits, trust me they help.

I really can't believe some of the argument read in here. Zitros gift of advice was basically don't bother running militia and expect results with named players in the game - and he's absolutely right. Everyone feeling comfy in militia gear - you're the one holding the crutch. You fear your wallet enough to let imperfects and other tops corps not afraid of a little ISK loss run amok on blueberries.

As this game stands right now - to my dismay - it takes another corp to stop another corp from rampaging all over the map. And what I notice is if there's a full imperfect squad - the other team won't even bother using there gear and the whole game becomes ruined. I dont know why you even bother staying in the game if you expect to die so much you refuse to use ISK gear - just leave so those of us with balls can step up and try and hopefully get other players who don't think with there wallets rather then there skill.

Ooo tell me more! Will I finally be able to go positive in a game? Can I really be on the top of the score board at the end of a match? Oh these dreams I have had, can you make them come true?