DUST Search - 1.4 is the death of the Heavy

Breakin Stuff wrote:

Kekklian Noobatronic wrote:

The only real problem with 1.4 and heavies is that - despite the increased HP from plates - they refused to increase the Armor Repper amount at all. It takes a painfully long time for an armor rep to bring a Heavy back up to full, now it'll be even more time out of the fight. It's like CCP lives in this deluded little land where there's a 1:1 ratio of "People who Rep Heavies : Heavies". To be fair, it's not just heavies though. Any armor tanked suit that needs to fit a rep is going to be annoyed by the extra repair time. I did a breakdown on "Time to Full", and the numbers drastically favor shield tanking over armor tanking - we're talking by 13+ seconds for an armor tanked suit vs shield tanked suit. Increase Plate amount without repair amount, and that number easily goes up to 20 seconds wait OR MORE. 20 seconds is a long time to be ducked behind a building, while your shield counterparts have already recharged and re-engaged.

You shitting me?

Takes me two full minutes to go from 20% armor to full.

One minute with no mods.


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Kekklian Noobatronic Goonfeet Top Men. 311	Posted - 2013.08.23 08:51:00 - [1] - Quote The only real problem with 1.4 and heavies is that - despite the increased HP from plates - they refused to increase the Armor Repper amount at all. It takes a painfully long time for an armor rep to bring a Heavy back up to full, now it'll be even more time out of the fight. It's like CCP lives in this deluded little land where there's a 1:1 ratio of "People who Rep Heavies : Heavies". To be fair, it's not just heavies though. Any armor tanked suit that needs to fit a rep is going to be annoyed by the extra repair time. I did a breakdown on "Time to Full", and the numbers drastically favor shield tanking over armor tanking - we're talking by 13+ seconds for an armor tanked suit vs shield tanked suit. Increase Plate amount without repair amount, and that number easily goes up to 20 seconds wait OR MORE. 20 seconds is a long time to be ducked behind a building, while your shield counterparts have already recharged and re-engaged.
Kekklian Noobatronic Goonfeet Top Men. 311	Posted - 2013.08.23 09:07:00 - [2] - Quote Breakin Stuff wrote: Kekklian Noobatronic wrote: The only real problem with 1.4 and heavies is that - despite the increased HP from plates - they refused to increase the Armor Repper amount at all. It takes a painfully long time for an armor rep to bring a Heavy back up to full, now it'll be even more time out of the fight. It's like CCP lives in this deluded little land where there's a 1:1 ratio of "People who Rep Heavies : Heavies". To be fair, it's not just heavies though. Any armor tanked suit that needs to fit a rep is going to be annoyed by the extra repair time. I did a breakdown on "Time to Full", and the numbers drastically favor shield tanking over armor tanking - we're talking by 13+ seconds for an armor tanked suit vs shield tanked suit. Increase Plate amount without repair amount, and that number easily goes up to 20 seconds wait OR MORE. 20 seconds is a long time to be ducked behind a building, while your shield counterparts have already recharged and re-engaged. You shitting me? Takes me two full minutes to go from 20% armor to full. One minute with no mods. Lol, you wearing 1 rep and multiple complex's then? To be fair, all I did was a flat comparison of 450 Shields / 150 Armor to 150 Shields / 450 Armor, with each taking an equal amount of damage(500 flat), and how long it took(included recharge timers) for them to get back in battle. If you're stacking crazy amounts of armor on to a heavy frame(I do too :P) then yea.. We take drastically longer to get back in the fight..