It is a fascinating idea however it is a sink upon a sink. Let's look at Sentinels. They give a resistance bonus to blast weaponry (useful as they cannot easily avoid 'explosives') and the racial variants give a big bonus against their most hated enemy and a smaller bonus against their ally's weaponry. That is a flat bonus that is useful no matter where else you have your points, providing you are using a Heavy suit of course.

But a Suit that says "gives you a 5% per level bonus to another skill" is almost useless until that skill in question is higher level. A level 3 Assault Rifle Operation that reduces kick by 15% only goes up by .75% per level. Having to work on bother the percentage AND the base is extremely frustrating. It is like having to spend money to increase both the interest rate and the principal.

I really do like the idea though.

That would 'fix' the 'breach' shotgun

Its an interesting idea, I don't know if it necessarily holds true to CCP's goal of racial parity though. It does however allow merc's the freedom of equipping whatever weapon they wish.

I am still hesitant to jump on board with this idea, as I feel for the assault class, the only true way to seperate them from the logi class is to directly buff offensive capability. But I'm not even sure where to begin, I would say give assaults a reduced cost to fitting dmg mods and increase the cost of dmg mods. (Along the same line of thinking for cloaks and scouts; if you want to equip them, you will sacrifice resources and ultimately your usefulness on the battlefield). However, if you did this, then shield tankers would need a rework to shield extenders(Or armor plates need heftier speed penalties) or if dmg mods get split into shields and armor then shield dmg mods become low slot, and armor dmg mods become high slot). Split the dmg mods so if GAL/AMA want to punish CAL/MIN any further than their weapons already allow, they must sacrifice main tank to do so.


If they shifted the assault bonus to the blanket "weapon ops" bonuses it doesn't necessarily bring racial parity. The minmatar assault would benefit from the ScR cooldown bonus same as the Amarr, however he could stack 3-4 dmg mods and armor tank. Us matari don't want bastard suits like that running around :)
I dunno though, interesting concept because it certainly does open up the fittings.

Moved to Feedback/Requests

Breach shotgun already has small spread so it would make it even worse

They have already acknowledged the reworking of damage mods and the increase of TTK (let the speculation abound as to how). With the devs emphatically stating that 1.8 was about racial parity, I just don't see all races receiving blanket bonuses to all weapons. If their are blanket bonuses, they will have to be class specific and class intended (logi = equip, heavy = splash dmg defense, commando = reload buff, and scout = cloaks) it would only make sense for the assault to receive a blanket bonus to offensive capability that doesn't affect racial parity such as damage mods or ROF. The racial suit itself or the specific weapon skill tree is where you can receive the reduced weapon ops. Just my opinion.

But isn't the new bonus weapon based anyways? ROF if I remember correctly, unless they changed since then. Assaults also would be suitable for bonuses related to weapons, heavys to HP and scouts to speed/stealth. This thread is definitely headed in the right direction.

Maybe it would be worded like "Assault suit bonus: Increase weapon operation bonus by 20% per level" So it would act as a multiplier to the weapon operation rather than a separate modifier that gets tacked on. I think this is a good idea, and it sucks that the only dev feedback is to let us know the thread has been moved!

For this to work more then likely it would need to be a nerf-buff like the logi equipment is getting. Nerf the weapon skill then give this to the assault player. Without that These type of reduction to recoil could be problematic as well as the splash range for md. I also like the idea of 5% reduction to weapon CPU/pg idea( counting grenades in it too).

And looking at 1.8 so far the commando is by far the dps class. With reload bonuses increasing sub stained dps and a straight dmg bonus. Giving the assault a rof bonus will make the 2 feel similar in the weapons department.