Assault Ships (commonly referred to as Assault Frigates, or simply AFs) are Tech II frigates, designed around firepower and survivability. While Assault Ships can be used as durable tacklers, Interceptors are much, much faster and more ideal for this role under most conditions. They are considerably better than other frigates at taking damage and focus on dealing damage rather than using electronic warfare or else.

Assault Ships are generally rather used as highly mobile DPS platforms. Their small size and relatively high agility allows them to slip through lowsec gatecamps with ease, their small signature radius allows them to go up against ships much larger than themselves without being guaranteed a swift death and they are able to mount much more firepower than their Tech I counterparts, in many cases approaching the DPS of a cruiser.

They are both good in fleets and in solo operations, but it's easier to find assault ships flying solo than almost any other frigate type, because of their characteristics. Assault ships are not to be underestimated.

Heavy Assault Cruisers(HACs), are combat cruisers, by far superior to their tech 1 relatives. They are made to deal very high amounts of damage, while still being able to withstand a considerable amount of fire. They are worth much more than their price, and they are widely used for their capabilities mainly in small and large fleets and gangs.

Lol. Why do some people want to have overpowered things?
Those changes would turn assault suits him to the single most overpowered things ever.

You don-¦t play EVE, don-¦t you? This is how everything should be in DUST. The gear itself should be weak but on the right ship with the right skills maxed it becomes really effective.

Damage bonuses of 10% per level are nothing rare there. Or Range Bonuses of 100% if maxed (a Caldari Assault Ship btw).

And the other suits will follow soonTM

the assault suit: The Assault dropsuit is a versatile frontline combat suit that combines excellent protection, good mobility, and sufficient equipment hard points for mission-specific customizations. Assault dropsuits are intended for standard combat operations or those in which the objectives are likely to change at a momentGÇÖs notice. Its ability to carry anything from small arms and explosives to heavy anti-vehicle munitions and deployable support gear makes it the most adaptable suit on the battlefield.

which is how they are currently...

http://www.ign.com/wikis/dust-514/Dropsuit_Classes

I strongly agree that assaults should be about offense, but I think these bonuses may be a bit too much by comparison to bonuses of other suits, and will make them OP. Seriousy, that heat reduction bonus on he Amarr assault for example, I would feel so overpowered with my SCR. This would only work with a very large TTK increase, and giving all other specializations equally large bonuses.

The ammo reserve role bonus seems useless for a scrambler rifle user, I rarely ever run low an ammo with my SCR. As for the ROF bonus for Amarr, it would help the laser rifle (and probably the scrambler pistol), but it would be useless for the SCR, though it would be great for the assault SCR, so I guess it would be fine (if these numbers weren't OP).

I really think its dangerous to give assault suits these bonuses, especially those damage bonuses (shouldn't be over 2% per level), but I agree with the general idea of assaults being the offensive pew pew pew class.

Please tell me which of the two laser weapons amarr have would benefit from a rof buff.