I've been having a ton of fun playing my 200 agent without a single piece of AI armour.
he's awesome in PVM:
* I can crank out 90k+ DPM in inf easies (my 220 engi is doing 225ish) and I can easily OD many mid SL players.
* I can fully easily play doctor in S7 or IS or any level relevant content
In PVP I haven't had any problems either.
with 15k+ HP and nearly unlimited nano I haven't had any encounters that are 100% to lose - 200 traders are bad, but not unbeatable by gank.
So I guess the point of this is that I think AI armour has been overrated, and my opinion is that there's more opportunity to PVP using support setups than some people realize.
So, does anyone else have any experience using non-AI armour based setups that compare favourably?
* a couple years ago I got sick of trying to play a moderate evade prof (MA), who was really only an evade prof for 1:40 out of every 10 minutes, so I made my engi my PVP main. Engi's are perfectly capable of providing reasonable support in PVP by using a HP setup with remodulator, perhaps swapping to grenade or AMEP/IDBEP for tower PVM.
* I feel similarly about my doctor, outfitted fully in OFAB/Ejathos, I've been seriously contemplating going bow on doctor, and trying to sort out a setup where I could use either a tiger MK6 (maybe QL 225 or so) or a union arbalest for the pew pew's.
* NT's again, same thing, you don't have to worry really about evasion and AR, it's just a matter of making sure you have the right nanos.
So what other prof/setups work nicely for this?
Shuyin will say MR keeper with DB armour and a supernova swap
What else?