Squad Leader Archive

I posted this as a reply to another post but now I'm angry thinking about it so I'm posting it here too:

In regards to mind drain: The SL cannot be treated like the rest of the group he leads. If you fight, and have a little medic skill, you're useless as a squad leader with the current HAM costs. The DEVs are treating the SL's special moves as if they were a weapon. Sure if they worked all the time. But SL's are more of a support class. If you have let's say a carbineer/medic/squad leader/CH (that's me, /shurg) In the middle of a huge fight My carb drains my mind HAM's, problem already since that class's HAM's need fixing, then my buddy here flops over with an aggro about to DB him so I run over to apply a stim, luckily he lives, but now there's 4 more aggros so I rally the group, it fails, so I do it again (still firing away with my carb) this time it works yay!. A dwarf nuna sneaks up on me a nips my butt, I'm dead. Hurrah! for Squad Leader! Yeah you know what you may not like it, but what I'm saying is that there should be little or no HAM cost for Squad Leader Special Abilities. Why? Because we're still hunters/soldiers and there's plenty of things reducing our HAMs already. unless you find a way to make mind stimpacks (hey pets get'em) lay off us. We're screwed as it is already. Squad Leaders are a walking bonus that's what should make us appealing to groups. Yes we can make your group better, but not by becoming another liability. What good is your squad leader against a PvP group of Riflemen? Try it, it's fun. Try boosting the HAMs of SL not reducing them.

/AGREE

you pretty much summed it up. As a SL you pretty much have to have -some- medical skills to back up your healers (or more often, keep the healers alive) and then you have the cost on our specials. The only real way to stay alive is to never use your SL specials and only use our passives (which is exactly what I'm doing right now)