-2 complex armor plates, for +400 armor HP. Speed is not important when using a LR, since most combat is medium to long ranged.

20% movement speed reduction of 5 m/s is what, -1 m/s => 4 m/s is good when you are anyways supposed to provide support fire (erasing shields) for the front-line AR players.

You also get no penalty to scan profile with armor plates rather than shield extenders, better to be stealthy when using LR.

Also, using armor plates and repairers opens up for more complex damage amplifiers in the high slots
\o/ DEE PEE ESS

I believe that in Uprising, the scrambler rifle will even out the usage of shield tankers vs armor tankers, since it will just blow shieldtankers to bits. This is probably CCPs thought behind introducing it. Also, the LR will finally be specialized and unique niche weapon without the sharpshooter making light weapons (esp. assault rifles) fire from far far far far away.

Im also considering to get better scan radius/long range scanning/active scanner to be able to know my surroundings better, while at the same time not being very easily detectable.

My role will in the end be something like a medium range marksman with scanning capabilities and high survivability. Something between a sniper and frontline.

-2 complex armor plates, for +400 armor HP. Speed is not important when using a LR, since most combat is medium to long ranged.

-Basic LR. Low CPU will not let me equip a Viziam.

My build is:
Pure Medi:
1) Logi type 1
2) Triage nano ( Adv)
3) Quantum nano (Adv)
4) ELM LR
5) 2* enhanced armor plates
6) 1* militia shield extender
7) triage repair tool
8) basic damage mod
9) militia locus grenade

After playing a lot with my beloved laser rifle and the B-series assault dropsuit, I was noticing that my +400 shields were not enough against other LRs and high sharpshooter ARs, the latter becoming my new bane. My sharpshooter skill is level 3, not too high but not to low to take advantage of middle range combat. I will however increase it to level 4 because sometimes I feel I'm not at optimal range in most situations. Either way, I thought a lot about going armor, and I reveal my plan so you guys let me know if it's good. I haven't yet tested it btw. BEHOLD:


-Start with a type-2 scout equipped with flux drop uplink and triage nanohive. Get to a high place as fast as possible, set up uplink and nanohives, suicide.

-Spawn as an A-series assault equipped with:

-2 complex armor plates, for +400 armor HP. Speed is not important when using a LR, since most combat is medium to long ranged.

-Complex damage mods. I don't know the number of how many I can equip, but these are secondary, meaning that I equip them as long as CPU is available.

-Basic LR. Low CPU will not let me equip a Viziam.

-Toxin SMG

-Quantum Nanohive. This is the most important item after the plates. This gives me enough ammo at a good rate.


Basic idea is that my armor keeps repaired without the need of a logibro thanks to the triage nanohives. This plan also works when using a heavy dropsuit for even more armor HP. Use:

-Logi type-1 for setting up uplink and ammo and triage nanohives.

-Heavy A-series with 2 complex plates and damage mods. Viziam or Basic LR.

This is good and bad. First off I would recommend using this set up with the Vk 0 dropsuit because of a few different reasons.