DUST Search - Minmitar Assault?

James-5955 wrote:

Oh I'm excited to post in this thread...

Before the respec I had gone into Gallente assault and specialized in armor tanking. I very quickly regretted it as heavies I was playing with were getting around just as quickly as I was. I felt like armor didn't really give me much advantages, or at least not enough to make up for the slower rep speed and movement gimp.

After talking with some friends yesterday about the options I figured between Caldari logi or Minmitar Assault... I went Minmitar assault. I've only played 4 matches in it so far but I'm enjoying it much more than I did the Gallente assault suit. It wasn't difficult to fit; with an enhanced CPU & PG mod I was able to fit my advanced and proto fits how I wanted (though I'd need proto CPU/PG mods to finish it, just not enough SP yet).

On the prototype suit I'm running 5 complex shield mods so my tank is pretty good, however my hybrid build I haven't tried yet is 3 complex shield & 2 complex dmg mods which I think will work out better. Generally sticking to the advanced suit since with the mods I can fit 3 complex shields, proto AR, proto uplink, toxin SMG & packed AV nades; which has been working out great.

It doesn't have the potential to reach a ridiculous EHP, even though my skills aren't maxed I believe I'm still around 600 or so. But hell.. that's still more than I had with armor tanking, recharging faster, and giving me 2 complex dmg mods.. so... YEAH! Can't wait to play it again.

Excited to get further spec'd into AV with all that dmg mod potential.


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mikegunnz Zumari Force Projection Caldari State 591	Posted - 2013.05.29 14:58:00 - [1] - Quote James-5955 wrote: Oh I'm excited to post in this thread... Before the respec I had gone into Gallente assault and specialized in armor tanking. I very quickly regretted it as heavies I was playing with were getting around just as quickly as I was. I felt like armor didn't really give me much advantages, or at least not enough to make up for the slower rep speed and movement gimp. After talking with some friends yesterday about the options I figured between Caldari logi or Minmitar Assault... I went Minmitar assault. I've only played 4 matches in it so far but I'm enjoying it much more than I did the Gallente assault suit. It wasn't difficult to fit; with an enhanced CPU & PG mod I was able to fit my advanced and proto fits how I wanted (though I'd need proto CPU/PG mods to finish it, just not enough SP yet). On the prototype suit I'm running 5 complex shield mods so my tank is pretty good, however my hybrid build I haven't tried yet is 3 complex shield & 2 complex dmg mods which I think will work out better. Generally sticking to the advanced suit since with the mods I can fit 3 complex shields, proto AR, proto uplink, toxin SMG & packed AV nades; which has been working out great. It doesn't have the potential to reach a ridiculous EHP, even though my skills aren't maxed I believe I'm still around 600 or so. But hell.. that's still more than I had with armor tanking, recharging faster, and giving me 2 complex dmg mods.. so... YEAH! Can't wait to play it again. Excited to get further spec'd into AV with all that dmg mod potential. We should chat James. I've got Minmatar too. If you experiment, you can get the EHP to almost 750. (if you decide you want to just tank HP) IMO, I picked this suit because it gives you the most flexibility. You can speed tank very well, you can Shield tanks very well, you can glass cannon with this suit, you can even make a decent 50/50 suit for shield and armor tanking. The std/adv suits are arguably a little weaker vs other races, but the proto is awesome. Many overlook it, because of it only having two low slots and less base HP. But it has a built-in 1HP repper, and faster speeds. Meaning, no NEED for a repper (yes I know 1HP is slow) and you can tank armor plates and still be a no slower than the other suits' default speed. Edit: and can't forget that having 100 SMG rounds is awesome for those that love using SMGs.