If by "tons harder" you mean "you actually have to pay a little attention to how you IP" then sure. But really if you think this is hard you should really try to distribute IP on a a tl4 MP.
http://auno.org/ao/equip.php?saveid=197490, and OE definitely is an issue if you don't have supple-based armor.
Strange, according to my calcs you don't need a single piece of supple based amor, or any pistol adding util, hud or armor in fact. "The more you know".
You're free to look yourself if you want, it's past 1 AM here so I'd personally have to search tomorrow. The one name that I can give you that I know for certain did it was egad on rk2.Citation needed for "Multiple people" doing troa+peh setup on MP. Of the very few MPs, I'm one of the very few pistol MPs. I've never seen anyone do both troa and peh on MP, just one or the other
Neither can crats.and never without sacrificing symb spots
I do plan on making a pistol setup on test once I have some free time. But I have to seriously test shade changes first.. Go ahead and make an MP on Test and look at the skills we're able to reach. I'm sitting at around 1030ish Burst with my setup and it fully maxed.
I've brought MPs to tl7 before, you don't need to belittle me. IP is much harder at lower levels than it is at tl7.I know this is tough to believe from a 171's perspective, but IP really does get tighter later on, especially for pistol setups.
You're right, I don't know much about this, and I can't seem to find any solid resource that would tell me the actual AR nerf across all professions post 1k.Are you trying to compare any other profession's performance with troa/peh to our's? MPs have the lowest AR template post-1k of any profession. For every 1 point of AR above 1k, MPs will gain the least benefit. There's not a lot of info about this, so it's understandable that you wouldn't know about it. People were very upset over how good Tigress was when it came out, but it had to be that good for it to be comparable to other prof's offerings. Thus, since no other setup requires some of the most expensive armor in the game, every other weapon path will be better returns on investment.