DUST Search - Assault B-Series worth it for me?

DJINN leukoplast wrote:

I just finally decided to blow my million SP on upgrading to a new suit, went with the assault type B.

Previously I was using an assault type II with two complex damage mods, a Gek, nanohive, basic CPU upgrade and enhanced armor plates (or whatever it's called, the one with 87 extra HP). That cost me just about 60k. Once I went with the B series, I was able to fit all the same exact stuff for only ~7k more ISK (the suit is 10k more, but the CPU upgrade I no longer needed was something like 3,200).

So now with the B series, I am able to fit what I had previously, plus an additional complex shield extender and basic armor plates. So rather than having something like 360 HP total, I now have over 600 HP. The total cost is roughly 76k.

So far I am enjoying it, but am toying with the notion of losing the armor plates and putting on speed mods. Because with the two plates I have, I am pretty slow and can get out maneuvered/strafed by other assaults and am completely out of my league with a scout. Even with speed upgrades the scouts will still be able to outmaneuver me, but at least I will have a better chance going neck to neck with other assaults. Because I found even with my extra armor, since I was slower I got hit a lot more when strafe shooting other assults. So all that extra HP is sort of moot.


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Th3rdSun L.O.T.I.S. Legacy Rising 323	Posted - 2013.01.03 12:09:00 - [1] - Quote Tectonious Falcon wrote: Enji Elric wrote: and yet with all of your shields, Just 1 Flux grenade Knocks them down to nothing...... better buy some regulators if your going to shield tank A normal grenade does this too, as well as armour damage, so no, flux grenades wouldn't make someone change their fitting to defend against them in my opinion. However you are correct, shield regulators are a good idea. Not really.I've taken normal locus grenades and they have only taken off half of my shield.I run a B Series a fair amount of time and I can say that it blows away anything below it if you equip it correctly.
Th3rdSun L.O.T.I.S. Legacy Rising 323	Posted - 2013.01.04 00:10:00 - [2] - Quote I-Shayz-I wrote: Yeah, shield control is nice. Having 3 high slots on the B series plus 3 complex shield mods is: 205 + 3(66) = 403 When you add the 25% bonus, that gives you an extra 100 shield. Right now at 15% you would only get 60. Wait,what? Are we taking about the B Series assault? If so,then I have three complex extenders,and only have my shield control at level 4,and I'm pushing out 467 on my shield.Base shield on B Series assault is 225.Honestly,I would go for level 5,but for 466k SP for a measly 12-13 extra hit points on my shields just isn't worth it right now.
Th3rdSun L.O.T.I.S. Legacy Rising 323	Posted - 2013.01.04 05:46:00 - [3] - Quote DJINN leukoplast wrote: I just finally decided to blow my million SP on upgrading to a new suit, went with the assault type B. Previously I was using an assault type II with two complex damage mods, a Gek, nanohive, basic CPU upgrade and enhanced armor plates (or whatever it's called, the one with 87 extra HP). That cost me just about 60k. Once I went with the B series, I was able to fit all the same exact stuff for only ~7k more ISK (the suit is 10k more, but the CPU upgrade I no longer needed was something like 3,200). So now with the B series, I am able to fit what I had previously, plus an additional complex shield extender and basic armor plates. So rather than having something like 360 HP total, I now have over 600 HP. The total cost is roughly 76k. So far I am enjoying it, but am toying with the notion of losing the armor plates and putting on speed mods. Because with the two plates I have, I am pretty slow and can get out maneuvered/strafed by other assaults and am completely out of my league with a scout. Even with speed upgrades the scouts will still be able to outmaneuver me, but at least I will have a better chance going neck to neck with other assaults. Because I found even with my extra armor, since I was slower I got hit a lot more when strafe shooting other assults. So all that extra HP is sort of moot. Honestly,running with armor plates is kind of useless to a point.I've tried with enhanced plating paired with a basic repairer,and I've also run without a repairer or plates.Honestly,it's not worth the loss of speed because you still don't have that much armor to begin with,so I do prefer to run without any armor mods. I'm currently trying double complex regulators.Used it in one match and went 10-0 and didn't get a chance to try it again.I just might like this set up more than the plates as well,but I do have to test it out more.