Certs you spent that were totally worth it

To complement the "certs you wasted" thread I would like to know which unlocks were totally worth your certs.

For me it was probably unlocking the full auto shotgun since it gave me an option for a completely different LA playstyle than I used before.

1x scopes and AMS sunder.

Annihilator. I can play a much more active role in battles now.

3.4 scope on TMG-50 was nice too.

The 700 it takes to unlock two sticks of C-4 on Light Assault. The ability to kill a couple of MAXes or and MBT is lovely, and being able to take out a S-AMS Sunderer with a little bit of though is invaluable when both attacking and defending.

The 230 on the combination of smoke grenades and an NV scope is also vastly satisfying. The only downside is the astronomical resource cost of both C-4 and smokes.

I'm inclined to agree buying a common pool shotgun is the best possible use of certs. They're very effective weapons when you play to their strengths and open up completely new (and fun!) avenue of playing.

Med kit is another one where you just can't go wrong.

C4 is fun but needs to be tweaked (significantly lower resource cost and better/additional way to reload your two blocks) in order to be top notch buy.


EDIT: spawn beacon is really good if you team up even with one player.

The Flash proximity radar which turns it in to a little mobile 25m radius radar station after I abandon it. Doesn't cost many cert points. The flash is cheaper than a grenade in resource points and, depending on the situation and how long it lasts, more deadly.

Engineer tool, Medic tool, Medic AoE heal ability, AMS Sunderer, 1x or 2x scope for your most used infantry weapon, Suppressor for sneaking (worth noting the default guns don't get suppressors), Squad beacon (leadership cert).

Also, rank 1 Stealth on Flash (or pretty much any vehicle) and a few ranks of acquisition timer reduction.
There is no need to go beyond rank 1 atm.

C4 for Light Assault, AMS, med kits.

Oh, and extended magazines for shotguns.

Rank 1 Nano Weave for all classes.
C4 for my LA and Medic.
IRNV optics for pretty much any non-liberator vehicle gun, especially breaker rockets as the smoke and explosions no longer block your vision.

Piston shotgun and Rebel pistol for NC were by far the two best investments I made.

Magburn
Surrender spawn
Upgrading repair/revive tools

Can you elaborate on that? I was wondering about unlocking the Rebel but on paper it seemed like a straight dps downgrade with lower mag size.

just throw money at it and hope something good happens

Fully Certed C4
AMS Sunderer
PIstol attachments
CARV attachments, CARV-S (before nerf)
3rd rank Nanoweave

A couple of things. A bulldog on my sunder, stupid LA with your C4! And flak armor/repair tool. The 50% (Currently to poor for last level so 39%) gas saved my life so often when repairing. I also love how I usually am the only one to survive a bombardment. Me and 3 other engineers are repairing a sunderer, couple of rockets later I'm down to about 3/4 health, their dead. Far better than nano-weave,

fully certed anti personnel mines, fully certed anti vehicle mines, LA c4, under barrell grenade launcher, improved jet pack, suppressed weapons.

I can kill any class with it between 2-3 shots minus Max or one shot and one knife. It has less ammo, but it does considerably more damage and is far more accurate especially with a laser sight in comparison to the Mag.

You would have to use it for a while to get the feel of it and once you do it ends up out performing the Mag by a fair bit when it comes to kill efficiency. You can also hit a target from a pretty long range with it reliably.

AI lighting cannon (cant recall name), the 8 shot salvo I didnt find useful at all, now its an infantry killing machine (literally)

Also, rocketspam.

Second Burster for the MAX.