Daddrobit
Pink Fluffy Bounty Hunterz
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.02.19 10:35:00 -
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Myself and another corpmate specced rather heavily into them. He went shield, (Saga) while I went armor, (Methana).
Is it fun? Yes
Can you affect the course of a battle? Sometimes.
Is it costly? Definitely.
My personal best as a gunner with my corpie is 31-0 before I froze out. It's fairly easy to get high teen to mid twenty kills in an average game.
However, if you're doing a god job at killing people, they /will/ bring out AV against you and it can turn very ugly very quickly if you don't have enough 'tank' on your LAV. And these LAVs can very easily out-cost the payout of your average game with a single loss
In my opinion, the Methana is far better than the Saga when it comes to survivability. An armor repper with an armor hardener is much harder to defeat than a shield tank as in addition to the armor plates, you will still have room left over to fit a shield buffer which is an absolute life saver for many situations.
My main pet peeve with the Methana is the open-ness of the driver's seat, you are much more easily shot out in a Methana than you are in a Saga as you can very literally see and shoot the entire side of your merc with the completely open door, while the Saga has cover for much of your body.
And I can't tell you too many things more annoying than being shot out of your LAV to have it get hacked and then have to face it yourself or blow it up.
When it comes to raw damage output however, look for the Saga. For vehicles, damage modifiers are fitted to the high slots, this means losing vital tanking abilities for your Methana which is absolutely unacceptable and /will/ get you killed. Although since Sagas are completely shield based, you can pop on damage mods without hindering your survivability too extremely. With damage mods on a blaster turret with turret skills, you can very easily melt even heavies in just a few shots.
As for it's most effective role, I've found that a blitzkrieg-like strategy works best.
Call in a your LAV and get a gunner and a passenger. Quickly fill up and choose an objective to hit and gun for it. When you approach the objective, have your gunner let loose on any resistance. Upon reaching it, have the passenger jump out and quickly finish off anyone who tried to hide while still receiving covering fire from the LAV. When everyone at the objective is dead or have legged it, have the passenger hack the point, remember to always be watching the spawn points so no one spawns in on your guy while it's being hacked. Once it's hacked, since no enemies can spawn there anyways, have your passenger hop back in and be on your way to the next objective while your team takes the point.
During the assault, always make sure to keep your LAV moving in and around the area while maintaining a close proximity to your passenger so you can support him when needed, a stationary LAV, is a dead LAV.
My .02 ISK. |