John Demonsbane
Unorganized Ninja Infantry Tactics
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Posted - 2013.07.23 16:37:00 -
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That's kinda how I play logi, as well. (I need to use more fluxes though, good point there.) Mostly nanohives and links, those obviously have more overall tactical utility. No problems with that style IMHO, esp. coming from an amarr logi.
Although, in a suit with more than 2 equip slots I will put a repper or needle in too, because there are going to be situations when it will be needed: Like when a hotzone cools off, or sometimes you really do need to just buttplug a heavy (or an HAV, I guess) so you can plow through a chokepoint in a city somewhere. |
John Demonsbane
Unorganized Ninja Infantry Tactics
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Posted - 2013.07.24 02:35:00 -
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I think the OP may be operating under a false assumption here. I highly doubt that a majority of informed/non-trolling posters here feel that any suit needs to be absolutely pigeonholed into any one role. I mean, part of the whole point of making dropsuit fittings so complicated is so that you can customize them how you like. Get readly for a little tl;dr...
You want to be good at killing but still bring an additional aspect to the battlefield? Cool. Don't use your third equipment slot, fill the other two with hives, uplinks, whatever, grab a duvolle and, if you really want to go all-out, get yourself an amarr logi (in a week or two, not now, holy crap) add a proto SMG or flaylock, and use the rest of your CPU/PG for extenders and damage mods. Knock yourself the f- out!
You want to be a pacifist? Perhaps an FPS is not the right game for you, but go for it. Grab a sidearm for self defense, proto equipment all around, speed mods to survive, and tank yourself up with what you got left.
Want to be a more "traditional" logibro? All the better, that's what the suit is designed for! A little of this, a little of that, maybe you need to use a GEK instead of that pretty imperial scrambler or duvolle you had your eyes on so you can fit a little better equipment or shields, but hey we all make sacrifices, right?
Well, no, we DON'T all make sacrifices with the current CalLogi suit. This is what the OP is missing here. The problem is not that the logi gods will strike us all down if we don't use a logistics suit as the good lord intended. The problem was that the cal logi suit could do anything and everything most other suits could, better in many cases. That, my friend is the definition of the only word that matters here, which is (say it with me): U-N-B-A-L-A-N-C-E-D.
Irrespective of what it was called, be it assault, logi, salad tosser gk.0, what freaking ever, that suit simply was more powerful than the others and needed to be brought in line with the ones in it's class, bottom line. You may not like it because suddenly your favorite toy doesn't work as well as it used to, no matter what you were using it for, but that is not, I repeat, not the point in this case.
No matter how killing- or healing-oriented your belief system (the correct term in this case because clearly facts are not getting in the way of your opinions) considers a "logistics" player to be, has no bearing on whether or not the suit needed to be adjusted. Considering how heavy-handed CCP has been with the nerf hammer in the past (my poor, poor laser rifle, how dearly I once loved you), this is much less mjolnir than it could have been. You'll live. |