Pilot Abilities - Ratings for Each.

Thanks for the guide. Somehow I by chance ended up with the right skills for the only pilot I have. Although I dont know how it will be possible to keep up with any of this cause the list is insanely long.

Props to the guide maker and poster... Even with the clarification, this release is still one giant confusing sack of Pay to be screwed. I have a feeling that Pilots are simply not going to be as hot as Pix thinks they will be...And why is every release of whaler chum supposed to be treated as anything worth perusing? Pilots is a flop IMHO. The divide is indeed getting large between the Death Squad haves, and the can't afford it have nots. Each release is making this much worse.

Bob D., many thanks for putting this together. This is great information and very helpful!

So far I think pilots are very good. I was skeptical at first and I could change my mind. It's another way for Pix to sell more gold packages and I am fine by that. If they don't make money, they stop development and turn off the servers. At a glance the pilots seems to be a much better value than the premium modules. (With the exception of Last Stand, that is still worth it.) They are expensive to rush, but everything in the game is.


Pilots give players options to customize the bots based on how they want to play and it can help offset some deficiencies such as being slow. I like the Bulwark and he can be a real beast with a leveled pilot and that's probably true for most relatively new bots. The Mechanic is awesome. I have Mechanic and Wonderworker leveled on a Ares and it significantly adds life to the glass canon.

The drawback is that it makes the game more complicated and expensive. New people entering Champion's League will be at a disadvantage unless they have leveled pilots that are good for their bots and weapons. The people that already have max MK2 will increase their lead. I played a few matches at lunch and there were already people with all legendary pilots at 50+. It just came out to iOS this morning. Unfortunately, it is what it is until they improve the match maker. On the cost, people can easily spend several hundred gold retraining to get just one good skill on a bot.

If I want only a specific skill, should I just buy it outright or roll for it?

I’d recommend making a list of potential skills you’d want eventually and random roll for 50 Au until you get one of those.

Just saying "deft suvivor" only worth 2* or 3*. You should fix it here and on reddit so newbie wouldn't get hype and pay 1000 gold for it.

So if that skill get triggering (hp below 50%) while you activating ability it, your ability would not refresh after that.

It sound ridiculous but also the way we use ability twice in our imagination, so i think it not a bug and pixonic won't fix it. I roll it on my hellburner and mender and replace it after 10 match.

Yes, if Mender is still in the 3 second resistance mode and you drop below 50 you miss it, but if you plan for it or have the right skills etc it’s pretty insane.

Do u think lockdown one is really that bad? I run scourges and it sounds like it be pretty good

Or Ember. I have OE embers and mk2 fast & cheap. I really like the reload time vs. avengers, which are parked on bully atm. 

Ⓑⓞⓑ Ⓓⓨⓛⓐⓝ, thanks a ton for this and glad to get some expert confirmation that my only purchase so far was correct - Falcon Traditionalist. Gonna miss the jump action, but I have a spare marching up the Mk2 path. Not exactly Fenrir, but this thing is a freaking tank.

Calling BB - Pop quiz hot shot! Which skill just screams R O G !!! to you, especially an already Mk2’ed Rog? I think I know someone who has a few of those still hopping around.

I’m dying for you to try it. Dose it bring Rog back into the top tier?

EDIT - or, crap...Ⓑⓞⓑ Ⓓⓨⓛⓐⓝ , does that one only apply to special ability bots, as opposed to regular jump? I suspect I am about to be disappointed.

EDIT 2 - Nope, I see Rog on the Wonderworker WIKI list...

Not drawn to Wonderworker? Pretty short cooldown for that healing jump. That’s burst healing just over 1%/sec, which beats the other constant healing by a wide margin. Am I missing something?

Love the passive repair on my boi Rayker. The main issue with Rayker in my eyes is that suppression does not fully negitate damage, do there's only so long one can survive. Passive healing triples survivability, with some free added silver on the way out. So good.

Too bad the module skills don’t work on AC. That extra 1.25s might actually be useful,

EDIT - Or instant recharge. Wikia lists Foolhardy Quartermaster as recharging “any equipped module” and doesn’t specific active module only. 

If anyone happens to test the combo, please report back, this might we worth it. At 50%, you’d be unrooted. 

True ace and mechanic are both good on Mender, anything that buffs durability, and better shot grouping if you use shotguns/eshotguns.

I’d give deft some more time. Played a ton with the deft mender build today and it just takes a bit to get the timing down. Sometimes you miss it, but the times you hit it in a firefight it’s an absolute K.O.