Originally Posted by
Hacre
Unless something weird happened, all the weapon skills on a Crat are blue (pistol) to dark blue (EVERY OTHER WEAPON SKILL TO DO WITH PISTOLS, so fling, burst, multi ranged, etc).
A Crat does not have the IP to spend on the skills needed for ranged weaponry, with or without AS, as well as all base stats, body dev, nanopool (not all Crats max theirs, but not being in a nano build makes raising nanopool advisable due to recasts on nano hungry nanos like Malaise and IPA), Run Speed and all evades (all dark blue), NR, Psychology (if they want to use the new/changed perks), first aid (stims, alb stims), treatment and all nanoskills apart from MM and BM I think as well.
I assure you, IP on a Crat is tight, if they want to do anything beyond cast and max psychology, ie, use a weapon.
Crats will save -some- MR IP but not a huge amount, by being able to perk Counterweight. So no, "not raising AS" isn't exactly a solution to the IP starved Crat because to max AS, serious sacrifices have had to be made, sacrifices that won't go away by maxing MC instead.
If memory serves me correctly, my Crat had well over 500 points less MC than my NT and my NT needs to debuff most people to ensure perks land, a luxury Crats don't have. Don't even bother to retort that with DMW either.