The 'Assault Suit Variant' bonus for all suits should be an additional 5% efficiency to all 'weapon operation' skills. That way, at level 5, people who use a SCR would get an additional 25% cooldown speed, AR's would have 25% less recoil, snipers would have 25% less scope sway, Swarms would have 25% reduction to lock on speed, shotguns would get 25% more spread, etc. I think this would be more fitting for Assault suits as they are supposed to be the most adept at handling and operating light weapons.

CCP needs to get away from Blanket bonuses.

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.

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Corrected that for you.

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

I think this particular bonus would go a long way to fixing some of the current problems that certain weapon types suffer from, and would be a lot simpler for the DEVs, bypassing many of the issues and complexities you highlighted with your suggestion, and have a minimal negative implications upon the different and varied playstyles of DUST514 players.

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, but, nobody ever looks there, not even you Devs. This thread is doomed to die.

The 'Assault Suit Variant' bonus for all suits should be an additional 5% efficiency to all 'weapon operation' skills. That way, at level 5, people who use a SCR would get an additional 25% cooldown speed, AR's would have 25% less recoil, snipers would have 25% less scope sway, Swarms would have 25% reduction to lock on speed, shotguns would get 25% more spread, etc. I think this would be more fitting for Assault suits as they are supposed to be the most adept at handling and operating light weapons.

+1 to the OP.

I don't care for the ROF buff for assault suits and I realy do like the idea of giviing some racial flavor to the perks.

My off the cuff idea would be a 5% decrease in CPU/PG usage for racially aligned weapons for all assault suits.

Beyond that:
CalAssault - 10% spool time reduction to rail weapons per level
MinAssault - 5% ammo increase to projectile weapons per level
AmarrAssault - 5% decrease in laser overheat per level
GalAssautl - 3% max effective range for plasma weapons per level or ROF increase at same rate