What 1000 cert upgrade is most valuable investment?

If you had to pick one that is best investment of 1000 certs.

MAX Vanguard Shield.

Max adrenaline shield.

Or Extended Mags on a pair of NC MAX AI weapons, if that counts.

max stealth for MBT's
max stealth for esf
max nanite repair for max's

in that order - if i was to get just one it would be stealth for MBT's

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The one you want most.

Anchor if you're TR, otherwise probably Adrenaline Shield.
Possibly Recon Device, if you play a lot of infiltrator.

darts

more darts MOAR DARTS

SMG

AF-4 Cyclone or NS-357 Underboss

By best you mean best return of certs?

Probably maxed medic tool. You can augment your XP gained from kills by also reviving fallen comrades.

Probably the rocket pods

without it Your ESF is almost useless

Definitely NOT any infantry small arms as some have suggested.

Imo, its much easier to get kills with vehicle weapons such as the Dalton, HE for Prowler, Rocketpods for ESFs because these are all farming tools. I can almost guarantee that provided you are a good player, the cert gain from a single 1000 cert investment into a LMG/ assault rifle/ pistol/ etc. will never be as fast as vehicle weapons.

Why? Because with vehicles you have mobility. You can fly from one end of the map to another and spam your weapons at any ground troop with less effort than having to run around on foot.

Psh. If I put stealth on my Vanguard how would I bait in enemy vehicles and destroy them?

why bait when you can sneak behind all of them and take them all out before they can even react

so many times i have maneuvered around to the rear of enemy vehicles and taken two or three before they have even noticed i was there, usually you can take out whole vehicle zergs alone because they are facing where you would normally be coming from
if they cant see you doing a wide circle around them and attacking them from the rear (because of stealth) you can do much more damage from behind them (pretty much always doing damage to the rear of their tanks) than you ever could baiting one at a time

Max rez tool rezzes people really really fast. It's extremely powerful.

The 'range-opposite' of your favourite classes' default weapon.

e.g. infiltrator sniper buys SMG, medic buys TAR/HV-45/Carnage etc.



please be more specific with the question; are you looking for value (used most often), investment (returns the most certs), playability (everyone needs one), etc?

Max rank on both the Medic's healing/revive tool and the Engineer's Repair tool (500 certs each), two certs all players should look to get in time.

Maxed Medic tool. But its only 500certs.

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