Should I bother with dampeners 5?I have now gotten gal scout 5 and have dampeners 3. I figure other stuff is much more important then dampeners 5 but thought I would ask the scout counsil

Yeah, most of the mail I get is love mail.

I wish I got more hatemail. I once went 20-0 in a match and a friend went 13-6. They sent him hatemail and I was all raging in crap over why I didn't get any

Maybe they recognized him and hated him from a previous encounter? Must be the respect others are giving us scouts for running the hardest suit, they were probably in too much awe to even give you hate mail

Caveat: I prefer to fight up-close (SG/SMG/Nade) and generally run a Scanner.

1) Favorite Lows: Armor Plates (2), Armor Reps (1), Card Reg (1), Kin Cat (1), Dampener (1)
2) Complex is preferred. Faster rep means faster back into battle.
3) Shields are preferred to damage amps, unless I've swapped to AR or Swarms.
4) Never used 'em. Don't plan to either.
5) Not a bad approach; often yields the best results (more kills, fewer deaths).
6) I've run two (never four), but prefer the Active Scanner even though it alerts my prey.

Dampening Level 3 is the highest I'd recommend.
There is no realized benefit (at the moment) for Level 4 and 5.

At Scout Level 5, you'll generally not need to run a dampener (as most folks run advanced scanners). If enemy is running proto (meta 8) scanner -- happens around 10% of the time in my experience -- swap to a loadout with a single dampener. If enemy is running meta 9 scanner, there's not much you can do realistically. Sure, you can run a proto gk.0 with 4 dampeners, but you'll be too squishy to do anything other than hide. Makes more sense to switch to an Advanced Loadout and play defensively when vulnerable to detection.

Dumping SP into Dampening Level 4 and 5 has zero affect on the above scenarios, so isn't worth the SP investment in my humble opinion.

Does the Dren Scout suit have the Gallente Scout bonus out of curiosity? Thinking about snagging the Elite pack sometime within the next month or two(unless they decide to drop it) and also thinking about switching from Minmatar to Gallente Scout suits since the whole reason I went Minmatar was for Nova Knives but they suck right now sooooooo.... yeah.

Does the Dren Scout suit have the Gallente Scout bonus out of curiosity? Thinking about snagging the Elite pack sometime within the next month or two(unless they decide to drop it) and also thinking about switching from Minmatar to Gallente Scout suits since the whole reason I went Minmatar was for Nova Knives but they suck right now sooooooo.... yeah.

Unfortunately, I spec'ed into Minmatar because I wanted to go knives and speed. Now both are severely hampered. Wish I had gone Gallente.
Kodho

Core skills.

Proto don't mean crap unless you can fit it right. Core Skills improve all of your fits, and allow you to run Cheap ADV suits that are actually quite effective. I'm at 11mil SP w/o Proto. And I can still run one hell of an ADV suit.

For the first month of Uprising the BPOs did not benefit from the role bonuses. As of 1.1 All BPOs get their respective role bonuses.

PS: The only item I use from the Elite Pack is the Dren Shotgun. I bought it primarily for the Aurum and Boosters, secondarily to support CCP :-)

Active Scanners question. I don't use them so I have no idea.
When someone scans you and you die, when you respawn are you still lit up?
If the person who scanned dies do the lights go out?

Dampening Level 3 is the highest I'd recommend.
There is no realized benefit (at the moment) for Level 4 and 5.

At Scout Level 5, you'll generally not need to run a dampener (as most folks run advanced scanners).

The ambiguity comes around, for things like the dragonfly "scout" suit. which is generic scout.
scout suit skills are usually labelled to be specifically applicable to "(race) scout".
So dragonfly may or may not get bonuses. After all, WHICH should apply? min or gal?

PS to Llast: too much ambiguity in the 'they' for that last post. I think he meant:

scanned people are NOT scanned, after death.
scanned people stay scanned, even if you kill the scanner.

How can you NOT be using the dren gk.0 ?
Or did you buy it before that was bundled?

... berates Quil ...

A prototype BPO suit would be "pay to win" by definition.
I bought the Elite Pack when it was released in May.
Unless I'm out-of-the-loop, I think it still comes with a G-1 BPO (not a gk.0) ...

....

Been having awesome luck with my knives and explosives lately.

An example of a Minja doing what a Minja does protecting the Matari's land in faction warfare.

Nice round.

You running proto? I'm asking because you seem to be running ADV weapons and equipment, yet 265 shields. Or Is there a CPU enhancer on it?

Been having awesome luck with my knives and explosives lately.

An example of a Minja doing what a Minja does protecting the Matari's land in faction warfare.

Tips on running the gk.0. What mods do you like on the low slots? The complex repper is a must? or adv is fine? complex shield good in the Hslot or dmg mod? or the adv precision. What works best now. Maybe just armor tank? Hows the 4 complex range if anyone runs it like that.

Here is my take on the Officer NK dmg at 250 ,charge time 0.5 sec.

The ambiguity comes around, for things like the dragonfly "scout" suit. which is generic scout.
scout suit skills are usually labelled to be specifically applicable to "(race) scout".
So dragonfly may or may not get bonuses. After all, WHICH should apply? min or gal?

In contrast, the Dren scout, explicitly identifies itself as "G-1". So, clearly gallente, so should get gallente scout bonus.

Side note: It's an odd thing that there are aurum versions of gallent scout, all the way up to proto... but no minmatar ones.
(at least, as far as the wiki knowledge goes)

They have min aur suits, an correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think bonuses are applied to suits, my gallente adv won't get scanned but my neo proto will in the same match, hard to say without testing this.

I would assume also that dragon an valor count as basics not racial but that's just a assumption .

We're all here to learn, Appia.

If we're here to learn, then passing off bad information is a not a very good thing to do. Probably shouldn't take advice from someone with a 700 kills and nearly 2500 deaths

you are no longer scanned after re-spawning.
they stay lit up after they die :(