Post by Tyzerra on Aug 12, 2012 15:42:08 GMT -5
On assault, the lowest KS you should ever start with is the Helicopter. Idk about you, but I can easily reach that while still having a clip in my primary leftover.
I see where you're coming from and I like how you think about things; "If I'm gonna use Assault then I'll make the most of it with the high rewards". However, on most of my classes I normally roll with the Pred, Heli, AC/PaveLow set-up because it's easy to get and racks up enough kills for me to justify it. I use that on my Type 95 which has SoH instead of Scavenger and I can reach that ~95% of the time just fine, so I know that I don't need Scavenger for it.
Here's my reasoning for Scavenger though: because I play kinda defensively, I don't really need SoH and because the people I play with are fairly good, enemies don't often call in killstreaks meaning that I don't need Blind Eye either (arguably the two best tier 1 perks). That leaves room for Scavenger, Recon or Ex Con and for my needs Scavenger is the only one that seems worth using since it also offers the chance to get my streaks a second time round, and more ammo for when I need to spray a little more than usual.
Sometimes though, I'll use Ex Mags as a substitute for Scavenger when I still want to use SoH (5 of my 10 classes have Scav, my other 5 have SoH). The best example for that would be my FAD: I use Attachments on it so I can add Ex Mags to my Suppressor since the recoil is manageable without Kick and SoH is almost necessary on it. It also compliments it's 'niche' of having a larger mag than other AR's.
Most of the time I try to avoid SoH since it isn't as necessary for my slower play-style, but if the weapon I'm using has a reload above 2.5s then I tend to go with SoH and change my killstreaks to UAV, Pred, Reaper/AH-6 or Pred, Heli, Reaper/AH-6.