The first thing I'll do once I get my grubby hands on the gallente heavy is fit a pure active tank ( all 4/5lows with armour reppers, and shield energizers/recargers in the highs), to see if it is viable, or more importantly, fun. Regardless it'll be nice to not have a logi as a ball and chain.

Honestly, I doubt active tanking will come into the mainstream until [if] CCP releases resistance modules.

Perhaps I am just weird, but I'd be fine with 0 highs and "just" 6 lows. Though, that may be due to there only being one worthwhile high mod in the game for armour tankers ( damage mods).



Agreed. I am beginning to think that Armour repair modules could probably use a slight buff.

They could always start the Caldari heavy

Cal heavy will not need a logi, probability it will be the only "self sustainable" heavy suit or a big fat glass air rifle.

On the other end of the spectrum, I am a Scout who uses a Militia Armor Rep on my cheap BPO, which I use 90% of the time, and a Complex on my gk.0. I find that it lets me hit and run, and generally have higher survivability over a long period of time, than plates.

I would hope that the Caldari heavy gets way more than 400-500 shields considering the Amarr heavy has 480 shield/armor to start with.

I suspect Caldari/Gallente will start off around 650 in their respective area and 300ish in others, Winmatar will probably be close to even but a bit lower than Amarr.

Also, OP, you're not the only one that runs a rep heavy. Lots of us run rep heavies in pubs.

Yes. The buff I was thinking of would increase the current active armour tank for a current proto sentinel from 25 to 30.

The maximum in game would be gal proto logi, with 37.5.

All from a massive all round buff of 1.

Bear in mind that reps decrease total ehp. And current weapons output enough damage to potentially take out well tanked suits in mere seconds.

Still, how is 50hp/second,as you say, that bad when weapons put out 400-1000 dps?

IC, bit stoned.

Rep heavies in pubs are pretty viable. 12.5hp/s might not seem like much for 600hp but keeping your shields up while armor reps makes it pretty worthwhile, and it's not especially hard to do with 600+ shield.

I think repairers should be buffed a bit as well, MLT should stay at 4, STD to 5, ADV to 6 and PRO to 7 would probably be good once skills are taken into account.