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If I may weigh in at this moment regarding scout tweaks.

There are a few changes I would like to see with scouts. However, the motivation for these changes is not specifically to increase their overall power.

The changes I would suggest would result in a minor improvement to scout effectiveness. I think we are in a place in Dust where there is room for such scout tweaks without causing imbalance as I feel scouts are slightly underperforming at the moment. It may have been difficult to implement these tweaks in the past due to fear of causing imbalance.

The data from Rattati does seem to indicate that there is room for small improvements to scouts. I'm not saying it proves that scouts are particularly underpowered, just that there is room for improvement.

Also there is the logical consideration.
Scouts were nerfed repeatedly by comparison with assaults, before assaults were buffed, or before the results of the assault buffs had time to manifest in player behaviour. The extensive buffs to assaults were great, but player opinion and CCP data suggested they were a little on the powerful side. Still, not particularly a problem, as the most versatile suit you would expect them to be used most often. And there have been subsequent tweaks, such as slightly reduced assault speed and buffs to both logis and commandos.

Recently there were the shield regen buffs, which saw substantially greater buffs to mediums and commandos than scouts and sentinels. Not a big issue in the grand scheme of things, and the changes certainly helped shield tanking, as was the goal.

I would argue that these factors, whether I'm right about all of them or not, indicate that there probably is a degree of freedom within game balance for a few scout modifications to improve gameplay, without making them overpowered.

Now, with this in mind the issues I see with scouts that could be improved are as follows.

1. The cloak.
When the current cloak delay was introduced most people were very happy that CCP had finally done it. Sure there was crying in GD about it, but overall the community at large was pleased CCP had put an end to firing from cloak.
However, the immediate reaction from cloak users (in general) was that, although it was a good thing overall, the delay was a bit longer than was necessary and felt a little slow. This in itself wasn't too bad, but the fact the delay occurred whether you were cloaked or not, and the weapon switch was canceled by sprinting, made the issue a lot worse. This all made the cloak feel quite clunky and awkward. At the time this felt like an unfortunate but acceptable price to pay for the end of cloak insta-ganking and ensuring proper stealth tactics were required. Everyone was still afraid of overpowered scouts to complain too noisily about it. It is quite a different game now. Ideally the delay when decloaked and sprint cancelling issues would be resolved. However I strongly suspect these wouldn't be in the game if CCP were able to prevent them and so I doubt fixing these problems would be possible. What would be possible, and would help with these issues would be speeding up the cloak weapon change a bit. People felt it was too slow from implementation. Now there is room in balance for it to be improved.

2. Scout racial balance.
As has been discussed a lot, Gal scout is best. Cal is ok but overshadowed. Min is fun but limited. Am is a bit rubbish.
Many suggestions have been put forward about how to improve this. Personally I would go for my profile normalisation approach. The overall philosophy being that scout balance is difficult to achieve when different scouts have different profiles as low profile is essential to all scouts equally:

Set scout base profiles to 30db.
Remove scout profile dampening bonuses.
Buff Gal scout precision bonus to 4% per level.
Remove Min scout knife bonus.
Remove Am scout precision bonus.
Buff Am scout stamina bonus to 28% per level (equal to complex mod at lvl 5).
Buff knife damage by 25% (a more viable weapon on all suits).
Buff scan range extenders to 25 (or 30)% at complex.

I think there would be room in the balance for these changes. The overall effects of my racial balance suggestion would be:

Gal scouts would now be able to scan undamped assaults at 30m without scanning modules. Would be more able to scan damped targets if using precision mods. This buff is needed as without it Gal scouts would be left with only 3% per level precision as their only bonus, which would be a terrible bonus and would leave them underpowered comparatively, in my opinion.

Min scouts would now be able to act as scouts on par with Gallente. For example they would be able to properly use their hacking bonus. Currently Gallente scouts are the best speed hackers despite Min having the bonus for it.

Cal scouts are pretty good already, but the buff to range extenders would help them make good use of their passive scan bonus.

Am scouts were originally about stamina. However the bonus has always been a mere fraction of a complex module, compared to other bonuses that are equivalent to or more than a complex module. This buff, combined with the improved profile would make Amarr scouts formidable.

In general I don't believe much needs to be done about EWAR other than the range extender buff. I don't know if active scanners need tweaking much. I would suggest the focussed scanner should have a bit shorter range, but otherwise I don't know.

These are my thoughts on the subject anyway, sorry it's long. I can comment on the non-scout issues in another post.

Cloak active damp buff.
Would help with Min and Am scouts, particularly speed hacking. However I consider this a bit of a band aid fix and would rather see my suggested normalised profiles.

I think this would work, Varoth.

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