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Joseph Ridgeson
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Posted - 2013.03.29 22:27:00 -
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Skills can never be linear like that though. A Duvolle can't do three times the damage of a GEK because it requires three times the Skill Points. That would completely and totally make being even a difference of 1 million skill points insurmountable for a new player.
There are a few more things that you get from going to a Surya:
The Marauder skill lets you increase damage of your guns. Not much, but it is there.
The one extra high slot means you can also fit a DCU, a Signal Amplifier, or an Active Weapon Upgrade.
With maxed Combat Engineering, it is 62.5 PG, I believe rounded to 63.
Maxed Circuitry is 31.25 CPU, rounds to 31.
Maxed Field Mechanics results in an extra 725 Armor. With, say, 40% resistance it is 1015 EHP. Not too shabby.
It is up to the individual to discover if the dump is worthwhile. The extra high slot is nice but, unlike the Sagaris that would put a Power Diagnostic System in the low slot, it doesn't add to EHP if a DCU is already being used.
For me, 3 times the SP and 6 times the base cost is not worthwhile for this hermit crab to get a slightly bigger shell.
Be well.
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Joseph Ridgeson
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Posted - 2013.03.29 23:15:00 -
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In EVE, there is a class of ships called Marauders. To even learn the skill, it requires Weapons Upgrades (about 12 days), Advanced Weapons Upgrades (hmmm, 36 days), Energy Grid Upgrades (12 days) 5 AND Battleship (56 days) of a certain race all at level 5 to use the different types of Marauder (IE, Golem takes Caldari Battleship 5, Kronos takes Gallente Battleship 5, etc)
You end up getting good bonuses (you can only use 4 guns instead of 6 but they deal double damage, extra tank, etc) but it takes double the time or more (probably a lot more) to get into a Golem compared to a Raven or Raven Navy Issue (which has 50% more shields and only slightly less firepower). It is all a toss up.
I would state that the game is still in beta so I am sure there will be added skills and synergies that may make up for what the Surya so clearly lacks. Perhaps the Surya will have a +5% resistance bonus to Armor per level of Gallente HAV whereas the Madrugar will not. "Gotta wait and see" kind of thing. The extra high slot is quite nice though. There are plenty of times where I would not have lost my Madrugar if I had a Nitrous Injector.
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