Tell me something Carlos, if I had a module which allowed my dropsuit to resist 100% of Thermal and EM Damage, but I took full damage to Kinetic and Hybrid Rail, how would you go about killing me?

I don't play EVE so thats just gibberish to me.

i expect someone to come into this thread saying "hur dur. heavies should not be restricted by using only HG since this game is meant to be able to play however style you want". what is the purpose of a role if 1 suit can accomplish the role of all the other suits?

So in other words, you've made a post complaining about the bonuses the Sentinels might get, when you don't even understand the basics of damage types? Damage types exist in Dust too and they're very important.

Get informed before you start complaining about things you don't understand, k?

Sure when I see a protoheavy i can switch weapons to counter that heavy but that means I have to be skilled into every weapon type which means I'm about 20mill SP away from that or I use a STD verison that perfectly counters him and he just laughs because his HP is still close to 1000.

Or you run in a group where each member of the fire team has a different damage type do you don't have to skill into every weapon, this is a team based game afterall =)

Sure thats fine for me because I'm in a 400+ member corp, but what about the guys who don't have that luxury?

You're right STB is the only corp that calls in tanks and uses protogear in pubs

I call in soma's to weaken enemy tanks then I jump out and finish him with Lai Dai's. This thread isn't about STB or tanks its about heavy's using light weapons so go troll elsewhere.

except that they'll have 2000+ eHP

Since my Logi won't be a hacker anymore, I'll just use a sentinel. More than one RE will be needed to stop me :D

Your MLT tank costs about the same as my ADV heavy suit, has several orders of magnitude more firepower and range than any heavy, even one using a rail rifle, and can resist 90% of all damage types close to 100% of the time. This is clearly imbalanced - tanks should only be able to equip nova knives for turrets since they resist so much damage. It's simply not fair they have all that range with their ability to take damage, so since heavies should be limited to 40m range weapon for AP, tanks with their much higher ability to take damage should be limited to melee.

See how stupid that logic is?

This thread is an idiotic QQ thread about how you want to be able to solo heavies in every situation no matter what, which is how heavies got gimped in the first place - baddies whining they couldn't solo everything with their AR. You STB kids should know about that, it's how your precious tanks got nerfed as well. So no thanks, I think I'll keep "trolling" right here.

Protip: It's not trolling for me to demonstrate how dumb your logic is.

Since only heavies are responding to this let me add that there will be other racial heavy weapons not just the HMG and forge.

Currently a proto sentinel with 4 complex plates, 1 complex shield, and level 5 shields and armor has 1867HP
673 shields and 1194 armor

Can we finally remove their ability to hold light weapons? Considering how difficult it will be to bring them down in CQC being at a disadvantage in long range combat is the only way to keep them balanced.

No one goes for pure HP, a more realistic class would be 2-3 plates, 1-2 armor repairers, and a damage mod.

Lies, 10-15% resistance to certain weapons will not double there eHP
We dont need QQ just because heavys wont be pointless anymore

Currently a proto sentinel with 4 complex plates, 1 complex shield, and level 5 shields and armor has 1867HP
673 shields and 1194 armor

Terrible build for anything outside of PC though. So no heavy will run that

I think the real issue here is heavies derping around with rail rifles. Assault rail rifle, deadly at long range, deadly at close range, and with that high of a HP pool compensating for the lower RoF of the rail rifle, its truly unmatched!!!!!

No. I don't know, eliminating light weapons is..... iffy. I understand not liking a battle heavy derp around with the rail rifle, or ANY gun for that matter, but if you think about it, the suit has a severe disadvantage close range if its using a light weapon.

Rail rifle: close the gap and you'll have a good chance beating it because your more agile/mobile then the heavy suit.

Combat rifle: Just like the HMG in terms of limited range, except it dumps ammo way faster.

Assault rifle: Well...... if your using something other then an assault rifle you should win.

Scrambler rifle: Now that's a pickle

Ultimately the lack of mobility of these suits really hurts the viability of using light weapons on it. If they lost light weapons it would be no sweat off my back, but I don't think its "that" bad for them to have access to light weapons if they choose to.