Appia Vibbia
Opus Arcana
Orion Empire
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Posted - 2013.05.06 16:15:00 -
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As a die-hard Gallente scout fangirl, I'll tell you this: being a Gallente scout eff'ing sucks. As an EVE pilot, my Gallente is there to scout out the systems. Scanners out the wazoo, top tier cloak, and microwarpdrive and afterburner. It is great for going in, gathering intel on a system, and heading back or giving the all-clear. The problem here is that it is completely specialized to 0.0 space or below. you get 1 chance to bomb someone, then get the heck out of dodge. . . Because they replaced the Cruise Missile Launchers into actual bombs, a skill I didn't need anymore and couldn't use because I was a Gallente Pilot and you can't fit those onto any ships. I used to go solo-hunting with those CMs in Concord Space.
That is like equipping a shotgun and core locus grenade, buzzing around picking people up on my 40m scan range, sac'ing any shield so I can see the broken sig-radius from dropsuit lvl 5's -25% and anyone who spec'd into profile dampening, with 2 kincats and a range amplifier. I get 1 chance to hit a squad with those grenades and maybe a shot off of the shotgun.
That is in an upper tier match. This is actually godly on line-harvest ambush as the last time I played this it too 3 heavies focusing on me to take me out, but it was a pub with the only recognizable corps on the other team way on the other side of the map. Or, I can replace the range amplifier with a hacking module and the precision enhancers with shields as I run around a map looking for the unprotected null-canon. The beauty of it all though is that even though I'd like to, none of those are complex mods, because there isn't enough CPU and PG to use.
I also love my Gallente scout to use those beautiful railguns. I used to be able to fit out a Tristan to snipe from Cruiser range and Cruisers I could get my Hybrid Turrets to shoot much further than my max scan range. Then I stopped playing for a bit, came back for rigging (whichever build that was). I skill into drones (finally) and set up a Myrmidon gunship... only my drones have a range of 80km and my Med turrets have a range of eff'ing 35Km now. Not to mention the damage was significantly reduced... to which CCP constantly said they would rebalance Hybrid Turrets, and they did, only every single build they get worse and worse.
Little Appia here came into the world as a Jin-Mei Saan Go, much like her capsuleer older brother and sister. As an Arbiter she was handed a MLT Sniper Rifle and took to it like a fish to water. . .
So I take my SP and invest it into SR Operations, find out that the Charged Sniper Rifle is ridiculous and should not be a tier-II SR, then realized that tier 3 SRs have a 93 CPU requirement... So I skill into a Type-II scout suit, find out that without a sidearm I get toasted after 5 kills when people with ARs come to hunt me down. I skill up into the A-Series. I've got the three scanning skills up to at least lvl3 with dampening at lvl5, I do not yet know the joys of kincats and realize that I cannot fit 3 low slots, 2 high slots, a grenade, and a nanohive in my A-series if everything is ADV gear. So I dump all my SP into light weapon upgrades w/ proficiency and reduce the SR CPU cost to 56. I upgrade Scanning Upgrade to 5 for a -25% on those modules, Sidearm weapon upgrades with proficiency to 3, Nanocircuitry to 5 for a 25% reduction on the Gauged, Circuitry at 5, The PG one at 5, the shield one at 5 Annnnd still can't do it. ok, so I'm in a vK.0 now. I still can't fill up all the slots with Proto/Complex mods. Some need to be ADV or left out.
Or I could have saved 4 Million SP and used an Assault suit and had the modules and stats I wanted. . . Or used a Logi suit, get some proximity explosives so people can't sneak up on me, negating the need for a sidearm, and have enough EHP to take 1 charged sniper round and live. Oh! And I can do that in a Type-I and bring a nanohive and drop-uplink with me! -_-
The Robot Devil. You are a tool, you have no understanding of how to fit a Scout suit, or the amount of CPU and PG it takes to fit those modules that are made for the Scout's roles. I can't be the best sniper, because I'm paper thin and can't increase my damage like the other suits can nor can I take another SRs body hit without it killing me in 1 shot. I have lost my recon ability by scan radius being reduced to a quarter of what it was and The Minmatar took my shotgun style from me.
But I've been a Gallente scout for going on 8 years now, I expect everything I like and every play-style I use to be nerfed because it is the consistent trend for CCP to do that. |