Delirium Inferno
Edoras Corporation
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Posted - 2013.05.17 21:28:00 -
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Timothy Thebes wrote:Thanks for the reply Tac Com
So survivability is important... does that mean being Minmatar was a bad choice? I keep running across the note that the Minmatar are paper thin.
How far into the skills have you already gone? Minmatar isn't bad, but it's not the best if you want to be a pure equipment support guy, which it sounds like. No need to fear though, if anything I'm about to say makes you reconsider what you want to put your skill points towards then simply go to Dust514.com, sign in, go to support, and quickly submit a ticket titled "Skill Respec" and state that you are sending it because of upcoming changes to the skill tree. Anyways, to go on to the main point.
If you want to focus around the equipment, the best way to go is Gallente because they get a 25% reduction in equipment CPU/PG once you reach the prototype suit meaning you can make all 4 of your equipment slots prototype equipment and still have enough room for armor/shields and a decent weapon. if you want to go Minmatar you still get 4 equipment slots but you likely will have to make a decision between whether you want top of the line gear or more survivability. Minmatar logistics also get the bonus in that they are faster so you can run around and heal people or pick people up before they potentially bleed out, and they also get a bonus to hacking speed so you can provide support that way as well.
Caldari and Amarr both only get 3 equipment slots max but come with other bonuses. Caldari logistics has the most survivability and Amarr logistics gets a sidearm.
Anyways as far as what skills you should look into getting, besides your obvious dropsuit skills.
Get your Armor Repair Skill up to 5, complex armor repairers will be your best friend.
Get Armor Plating up to 3, enhanced armor plates give the most bang for buck with that speed penalty
Get shield extenders up to 5 for complex shield extenders
Pick a weapon and get it to 3 since if you're going max equipment and all these defenses you won't have room for a prototype weapon.
Also note that there are some prerequisites you have to go through. "Armor Upgrades" and "Shield Upgrades" both give you 5% extra armor or shielding per level, it is nice to have but really isn't that much and the points could be better used elsewhere for now. Only get those to the required Level 1 and come back to them later.
Then just pick what equipment you want and get going. Note that you'll probably run out of CPU/PG, but there are skills to increase these (Electronics and Engineering) so manage that as needed. And of course spread out your skill points among all these skills so you have something to use as you progress (don't go Level 5 armor repair right away if you don't have the suit to handle it and vice versa).
Hope that made sense! |