A couple weeks ago I managed a triple kill with a sleek locus grenade.
I love the damn thing.

Damn, you guys are giving out too much intel :)

I'm in the tune of 22 mil sp and every little bit is precious. There are 5 or 6 skills I want to sink sp into. I went into logi lav because I actually repped tanks and dropsuits. Ask me to follow you around some time in scout squad....talk about invulnerability. But I hope I get that sp back for 1.7.

Slightly off topic, one game I was trying to rep a friendly tank....he spent the rest of the match "trying to run me over""....it's why we can't have nice things.

The grind to 2.8 mil sp for a proto suit is tiring. I'll likely only go adv for a long time besides my trusty gal logi. Which, Appia, is freaking expensive when filled with equipment, 250k on occasion.

I'll run as full logi some time for scout squads but I don't want to be the only guy not "scout" be aware that 175hp/s rep tool will do a lot of loving.

I'd love to try these things out in earnest.
Mind telling us about your observations (tactical differences, advantages, drawbacks, etc.)?

First off, its only really great at finishing off someone or getting in a surprise grenade before shooting them in the back.
The greatest asset of this grenade is the 9 meter explosion radius which basically all but guarantees your going to damage your target. Also you can throw it farther than the other grenades.
It excels at surprising a target who is around a corner or even over a wall if you know the trajectory well enough.

Sir Shotty!

Please add me to your killboard / registry. I have decided to put my EZ mode on standby on this character and only break out my proto logi + AR prof 2 when I need to run team support for some bizzare reason (maybe in future corp battles?). I have a pitiful 800 kills and suitably scoutly .5 something KDR (I was a 'real' logi).

Now that I have wasted all of those SPs on items I won't use much more, and have all of that useless armor skill and repper skill, I have moved on to the minmatar scout frame (L1) with no scoutly scan/range/precision skills to speak of.

Solidarity, brothers!

Oh, and I've decided to remain on hard-mode, despite my longings for medium frame kill scores and more fairness and all of my bitterness about scouts getting the shaft.

I will chose an appropriate sidearm specialty soon and be on my to bankruptcy post-haste.

This is Matticus by the way.

if your skilled into plates and reps you should go into gallente scout

I cannot argue with your logic, there. But, this character is already a Gallente scout.... so, gotta dip my toes into each sweet pool of scoutly perfection.

I cannot argue with your logic, there. But, this character is already a Gallente scout.... so, gotta dip my toes into each sweet pool of scoutly perfection.

Add me when you do the update Shotty, this is Llast's Minja account. Honestly I think i split it 50/50 now.

Bah. Looks like we won't be getting the new scouts and scout buff in 1.7. After I finish this god forsaken grind fest, I'm taking a break until they are out, scouts get a buff, and we get a respec.

Sup gents I joined the scouts united chat channel and there was only me and a lot of tumble weed. Did I use the correct channel or is there a different in-game scout channel?

I am doing the same thing, except started from scratch. You are probably set up through EQ to be a uplink deployment machine, so that's a plus. I wonder how much fun minja medic would be, or high speed rep running? I don't know could be interesting.
I know I am looking at hack speed and maneuverability, and have been using hacked objectives and CRUs to not be completely blind.

Hmm... good idea, thanks! The increased run speed is nice, but without my core skills up to snuff, no scout skills, and any decent non-AR weapon skills I'm pretty squishy. This was definitely not the efficient way to go.....

I do have a caldari alt, and an amarr alt for their respective scout suits..... but without passive SP, it's probably just easier for me to spec into their respective suits on this account....

Gallente- Cloak Active Module- Makes you walk show but if an enemy is not moving fast enough or is entrenched you can break the cloak by just shooting him.

Caldari- Mimic Active Module- makes you appear as a friendly unless somebody is scoping you or are within a certain distance

Minmatar- Adrenalin Active Module- essentially a free boost to massively pump up speed, melee/wep damage, jump height/distance

Amarr- Warp Active Module- the ability to teleport on a spot, distance based off how much stamina you can consume.

I don't like how the abilities are stuck on a suit. Should certain suits be more effective at specific active mods? Yes. But having set active mods reduces our ability to customize our scout the way we want? Is there anything wrong with me wanting a caldari scout that can hid from enemies? Is there anything wrong with me wanting an Amarr scout that can in a pinch over come its slower speed?