RedBleach LeSanglant
Pink Fluffy Bounty Hunterz
Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2013.05.13 16:10:00 -
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Min Logi hack bonus is not just for hacking now, but for more of the Ewar stuff in the future. Hacking enemy nanohives, drop uplinks, and more. On top of that the hacking bonus only helps your team if you are a logi that can play the frontline and hack while your teammates hold off enemies at an objective. Thus the even number of highs and lows.
Amarr logi is the sorriest of the bunch, Assaults suits are better at logi than this loadout. 2 equpment slots and only 3h/3l on the proto level. It needs a +1low and a +1 equipment slot. NO logi should have less than 3 equipment slots. It should just be gospel, doctrine, universal truth. And Amar is should have 1 more low slot... he's Amarr and the balancing does not seem fair to gain a sidearm and lose a 1H/1L/2E from the standard logi. 1High (normally devoted to +ehp or repair) 1 Low (all sorts of modules, ARMOR or repper) and 2E (the basic roll of a logi is to have lots of this... he has the equivalent of an old assault suit?). Broke in the bad way.
Mind you that the Devs may want us to look at the whole thing as a new game, but we are running comparisons to the chromosome build. Based on the Proto logi we had the 4/4/4 was expected. We are not seeing the balance in this build of how the old logi suit can vary among the races as having a flow between those numbers with the Caldari and Gallente versions and totally miss on the Amarr Logi suit... go figure.
As to nerfing Logis, that's messed up yo. The bonuses for the logis are for self repair - no one else will do it - and tanking a bit more to live long enough to help other players. This is not a new post, many other threads have spoken to it. The logi has never been better than the Assault suits until now, and that is just the killer bee builds. While people died by a logi's hands in Chromosome the great slayers were never in Logi gear. Always assault. So, if that has changed then the appeal of bonuses have changed and the Assaults need a buff not a logi nerf.
The issue at hand is the Assault suits and bonuses. The logi bonuses and limitations (speed, lower ehp) can be over come with proto modules. A few speed modules and the speed is over come, and playing on the nature of the racial suit the appropriate tanking module will buff HP. They loose the role that you can use the suit for. Gone are the possibilities for scanning modules, hack modules, and other items that only fit into those slots where the speed modules were - that a logi uses just for that purpose. They have created a nonversitile speed tank. It is one build. One that is destroying us right now, but just one build.
That the build is so predominant points to a break in the game, which may be addressed by new equipment or may not. Is there a counter to the Caldari or Gallente logi tanks? We will see. |