Most interesting of the Sage/Savant/Adept trio for two reasons,
- Highest base strength
- Breaks barrier and sentry, leaving code gates to more efficient Shaper Decoders.
Quite good as an in-faction Killer, decent Fracter as well.
(Terminal Directive Cards era)
How this one got the highest base strength is a mystery to me. Poor design if you ask me.
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LynxMegaCorp
What makes you say that @Lynx?
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thunderfist
Hypothesis: since Savant has the lowest cost per sub for code gates if Adept doesn't have a higher base strength FFG may be worried that people just use Savant + Corroder and Adept doesn't see actual play.
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Silv
If you run Adept I don't think there's much reason not to run Savant as well. You've already invested in having free MU and Savant is rarely less efficient than Gordian Blade in that case.
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Silv
This breaker focuses on Shaper's less powerful breaker suite (their order is Code Gate, Barrier, Killer, I think). So the fact that Adept breaks Shaper's weaknesses yet has the highest base strength doesn't add up. If anything, Sage should be at 2, with Adept at 0. (Savant at 1.)
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LynxMegaCorp
Code gates tradtionally had the fewest subroutines, at least before mumbad cycle. Paying $2 per sub on the types with most subs is enough of a drawback.
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Lttlefoot
... So the excuse for Sage being the same (2 to break) and less strength is...?
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LynxMegaCorp
I think the reason for Sage being lower STR is that it's a 2-in-1 solution for ETR Ice. Breaking Sentries is nice and all but very few have ETR subroutines, so you're still getting an access and successful run, despite some possible damage.
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