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Noobie: Tar cloud, yes or no?

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Macde:
Ello all! As the subject says, I'm relatively new to this game. Started about 2 months ago, level 13 pilot (the main pilot of the crew I fly with.)

We typically fly the squid, one of our favorite ships even before the patch that buffed it. One of my favorite pilot tools to bring is the tar cloud. If somebody is directly behind us, I tar cloud them. If we're retreating and my enemies haven't marked me, I typically throw tar clouds if the engines are in good shape. Occasionally I'll even do offensive maneuvers with it, such as flying top speed past an enemy chasing my teammate and landing the cloud directly on them. I even have a few recorded kills from doing this in my statistics.

However, I barely see anyone else using the item. None of the ships I've fought ever throw tar clouds on me, and the one ship I even saw carrying it threw it purely defensively and never caught me team inside. Is it considered a more skill based weapon which isn't oft seen at low levels such as mine? Is it just bad in general?

RearAdmiralZill:
All in personal preferences. I haven't used it in a long time, but that's not to say it's useless if used properly.

I don't use it on a squid as the engines are life when it comes to a squid. I try to take minimal means to damage them. Instead I throw mines on the back if I'm running away. That said, I know plenty of other squid pilots that will paint the skies black all day long, thus, personal preference.

c-ponter:
I rarely play pilot but I can say that being caught in tar Is absolute hell for the engineers, especially if the captain can't get out quickly. As far as I know it is useful but as you say I havnt really seen many lower level pilots use it. From what I can gather with my limited flying experience it is good but often just having another mobility tool is more versatile

DJ Logicalia:
Tar is one of the most situational tools around. Most ships can't use tar effectively, but the squid is definitely the best ship to use tar on. You sound like you're using it correctly, so keep going.

There are some high level pilots who use tar really well, but it isn't as common as kero or claw. It's a great tool, but most people don't want to sacrifice one of their other tools for it, and those who do can use it well

Sammy B. T.:
Tar has always been very niche. There was a growing number of users before they totally reworked it. You used to be able to basically tar for free though the damage both to one's own engines and other's components was much lower back then. They then reworked it by making it damage the engines a large amount and compensated by making it damage other ships a whole lot more. While balanced, this put the role in a whole new light as more of a weapon as opposed to the escape mechanism it was previously.

There is a place for it, but its tricky thus the low use. Imbalanced carronades also don't help bu that is another story.

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