It's not the native user, it was just addopted

He only obviously wants the MD to be effective for his class, the logi. The MD still needs to have a general increase per clip and ammo capacity, it is a better alternative to messing with splash damage or splash radius which are notoriously hated about this weapon rather than how many shells it can fire out.

I believe in 1.8 they said weapons will do damage mostly to what it inherently is good at hurting I.E explosives doing less damage to shields as it should be. This becomes a obvious problem for the MD in 1.8, overcoming that is to increase the clip size and the ammo size rather than the damage. I saw that a increased clip size works well instead of damage first hand back in the closed beta when it was increased from 4 to 6, giving that available to all classes allows some flexibility with it. I understand putting that damage increase on the Minmatar commando because of how specialized the suit is but the Minmatar assault does not need to back into solely running the weapon to have that effectiveness with it, I would rather see a ROF or Radius increase relegated to the Minmatar Assault or something else.

A increase in MD damage is only being done with minmatar commando. I do not want a splash/dam. increase but I agree that something like ROF for the flaylock/MD would be better for the Minmatar assault. Frankly though the MD needs to have general increase in ammo capacity/clip size applied to base Mass Driver rather than limiting it to one class. The damage it will output in 1.8 will be stunted due to the reduction in it's proficiency skill (or so I am told) meaning that it will have a harder time killing people than it already is going to be. Any idea that the Mass Driver is going to a spam weapon of death for a increased clip size and is aware of how underutilized the Mass Driver is currently and what it is capable of is overblowing it.

If you really want to look at what could be a problem you need only look at the Minmatar commando with it's increase to explosive damage and reload reduction time on light weapons. With that in mind limiting the feasibility to single classes to make up for weaknesses (as someone above me pointed out) is not a good idea you may also have this with the Laser Rifle except the Laser Rifle is most likely being rebalanced in 1.8 and the MD is not.