Chilled Pill
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Posted - 2013.05.12 12:42:00 -
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Gallente Scout here as well. I opted to forgo the Profile Dampening skill and Range Amplification for now. Aside for it not consistent -- if it works at all; the skills are just too expensive for the bonus you're getting.
My thinking was, why spend all this SP to get 2% dampening and 10% range separately, when I could spend that SP in the Racial Suit and get them both up.
But yeah, passive scanning is f'd. Also, we have the same base scan radius as Logies. wth right? |
Chilled Pill
Pro Hic Immortalis
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.05.12 23:52:00 -
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I think CCP is completely lost now with regard to Suit Design and what it's supposed to be capable of or even excel at. What screws the Scouts over is the fact that it was designed to be a Marksman and/or a swift and stealthy Recon. That was a role I think CCP was trying to place it in. What they failed to do was make it specific to only the Scout.
And remember, if we're talking 'roles', the CCP wanted the scout to be the marksman of the group (also a 'scout': scanning while being stealthy: Scouts are complaining passive scanning is f'd) -- a glass cannon, having Sniper OP 1 as default in Chromosome. (The Tac AR is a marksman rifle) If they limited the use of Sniper Rifles to Scouts, then you won't be seeing Logies hanging back Sniping like its their job. You can't blame them because they're simply set-up to be better at it, but they fail in fulfilling the role of a Logi.
If I remember correctly, the Logies have a default SMG Op 1. What does that tell you about the role CCP thought up for the Logi? Just below med - short range, so it sticks to it's longer ranged teammates while providing reps, resupply.
I think either they give specific suits huge bonuses to what their intended role is to play on the field and reward them for doing that, OR give them module/equipment/weapons specificity barring any other suit class from equiping those module/equipment/weapons or give them penalties if they do.
Scouts are out in the cold. As I've always said, all we really have is a smaller hit box, everything else can be copied and surpassed by the Assault and especially the Logi.
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