That works, though I still think there should be a scout with a hacking bonus.

The bonuses from the test servers in general seem pretty good, though the assault ones are pretty bad. The ROF bonus buffs the AR, RR (and maybe the CR), but not the SCR (nerfing it by ommision). On top of that, the removal of the Amarr assault's heat buildup reduction bonus is a much bigger nerf. The ROF bonus would make a SCR disincentivized on an assault suit because the bonus is wasted on it.

Instead of HP/rep bonuses, assaults should have bonuses that enhance their race's weaponry. You guys had the right idea with the heat bonus.
Amarr: 5% heat buildup per level of laser weapons per.
Minmatar: 5% magazine size per level of projectiles and explosives per level.
Gallente: 5% reload speed of hybrid-blaster weapons per level.
Caldari: something...

As for the role bonus, the 4 racial rifles should receive a 10% damage nerf, but the role bonus should give a 2% light weapon damage increase per level, so they will be as strong as they currently are to a maxed out assault, and ensure assaults are better slayers than logis without making the weapons overpowered and hurting TTK.


Also back on scuts, I love the Caldari scout idea of increasing the enemy's precision (so counter-intuitive in regular language though that more precision means less effective at sensing).

That works, though I still think there should be a scout with a hacking bonus.

The bonuses from the test servers in general seem pretty good, though the assault ones are pretty bad. The ROF bonus buffs the AR, RR (and maybe the CR), but not the SCR (nerfing it by ommision). On top of that, the removal of the Amarr assault's heat buildup reduction bonus is a much bigger nerf. The ROF bonus would make a SCR disincentivized on an assault suit because the bonus is wasted on it.

Instead of HP/rep bonuses, assaults should have bonuses that enhance their race's weaponry. You guys had the right idea with the heat bonus.
Amarr: 5% heat buildup per level of laser weapons per.
Minmatar: 5% magazine size per level of projectiles and explosives per level.
Gallente: 5% reload speed of hybrid-blaster weapons per level.
Caldari: something...

As for the role bonus, the 4 racial rifles should receive a 10% damage nerf, but the role bonus should give a 2% light weapon damage increase per level, so they will be as strong as they currently are to a maxed out assault, and ensure assaults are better slayers than logis without making the weapons overpowered and hurting TTK.


Also back on scuts, I love the Caldari scout idea of increasing the enemy's precision (so counter-intuitive in regular language though that more precision means less effective at sensing).

Well, charged nova knives already pack a whallop. Not sure I'd want to bump them up along with base melee (which was underwhelming even with the skill)

That works, though I still think there should be a scout with a hacking bonus.

The bonuses from the test servers in general seem pretty good, though the assault ones are pretty bad. The ROF bonus buffs the AR, RR (and maybe the CR), but not the SCR (nerfing it by ommision). On top of that, the removal of the Amarr assault's heat buildup reduction bonus is a much bigger nerf. The ROF bonus would make a SCR disincentivized on an assault suit because the bonus is wasted on it.

Instead of HP/rep bonuses, assaults should have bonuses that enhance their race's weaponry. You guys had the right idea with the heat bonus.
Amarr: 5% heat buildup per level of laser weapons per.
Minmatar: 5% magazine size per level of projectiles and explosives per level.
Gallente: 5% reload speed of hybrid-blaster weapons per level.
Caldari: something...

As for the role bonus, the 4 racial rifles should receive a 10% damage nerf, but the role bonus should give a 2% light weapon damage increase per level, so they will be as strong as they currently are to a maxed out assault, and ensure assaults are better slayers than logis without making the weapons overpowered and hurting TTK.


Also back on scuts, I love the Caldari scout idea of increasing the enemy's precision (so counter-intuitive in regular language though that more precision means less effective at sensing).

Yeah, TTK is definitely something we're looking at improving. The reason we've not hot-fixed a blanket 10% nerf is simply because of the knock -on effects it has (e.g. reducing the damage output of an ammo guzzler like the ACR means it gets a bigger nerf than simply reduced DPS; though some might argue that's not a bad thing).

For 1.8 you should see re-adjustment of damage mods, a reduction to weapon damage and possibly alteration of the weapon proficiency skills to only buff damage against shield or armor (in keeping with that weapon's profile) instead of a blanket 3% per level to both shields and armor.

But what if having nova knives equipped automatically changed all your melees to knife swipes instead of needing to go through the process of switching weapons. It couldn't increase the melee damage, rather it would replace the melee damage with the nova knives damage.

And in addition to that, it would make more sense if nova knives damage output were increased by stimulants rather than sidearm damage modifiers, but I can see how they may be an issue relaying that information to everyone since technically the nova knives are a sidearm.

Actually I just thought of a utility of a precision raiser, (while small, its something I guess), pending on how strong it is, it would allow you to bring in a team of mediums up undetected against passive scanning scouts.

That works, though I still think there should be a scout with a hacking bonus.

The bonuses from the test servers in general seem pretty good, though the assault ones are pretty bad. The ROF bonus buffs the AR, RR (and maybe the CR), but not the SCR (nerfing it by ommision). On top of that, the removal of the Amarr assault's heat buildup reduction bonus is a much bigger nerf. The ROF bonus would make a SCR disincentivized on an assault suit because the bonus is wasted on it.

Instead of HP/rep bonuses, assaults should have bonuses that enhance their race's weaponry. You guys had the right idea with the heat bonus.
Amarr: 5% heat buildup per level of laser weapons per.
Minmatar: 5% magazine size per level of projectiles and explosives per level.
Gallente: 5% reload speed of hybrid-blaster weapons per level.
Caldari: something...

As for the role bonus, the 4 racial rifles should receive a 10% damage nerf, but the role bonus should give a 2% light weapon damage increase per level, so they will be as strong as they currently are to a maxed out assault, and ensure assaults are better slayers than logis without making the weapons overpowered and hurting TTK.


Also back on scuts, I love the Caldari scout idea of increasing the enemy's precision (so counter-intuitive in regular language though that more precision means less effective at sensing).

I'd say that's a point in a case to add EWar info to the HUD.
Instant thoughts are maybe some small numbers around the map radar for Profile, Precision, and maybe Range.
Perhaps have them change color (and/or blink) if the value changes from what you had when you spawned.

Or perhaps an optional / toggleable element that's more substantial, though I'm sure that's quite a bit more work.

You'll probably need some kind of similar way to deliver info for command suit bonuses to recipients as well, wont you?

I very much appreciate the replies CCP Remnant. I tried to edit my post to add this, but didn't do so fast enough:

In regards to scouts. I am also worried about the effects of the new Gallente logi active scanner precision bonus on the scout's ability to be stealthy. I would recommend changing it to a range bonus, or nerfing the base precision of active scanners to compensate. Active scanners are already so prevalent as it is right now, and there is no active counter; passive scan is countered by passive dampening, but active scanner equipment has no equipment to counter it.
There are prototype scanner variants that require 4 complex dampeners on a maxed out scout to evade (according to some calculations), and this is without the help of a precision bonus. I fear active scanners may severely hurt the stealth niche.

Minmatar scout melee bonus is still less than medium frame melee, even when maxed out; its also weird for it to get a bonus to another race's weapon (nova knives are Caldari). The 5% hacking speed bonus (which seems like its going to be removed from the Minmatar logi) would be perfect on a scout given that they have the speed to quickly and stealthily reach objectives.

An alternative would be to have the hacking bonus was the role bonus for all scouts, and the Minmatar scout bonus was to the efficacy of biotic modules (kinkats, stimulants, and myofibrals), 10% per level.