If you ask CCP Remnant nicely he might share. I hear he likes fillet steak.

So the Amarr Assault suit is being changed to be armor centric. I'm sure the RP'ers out there love the fact the amarr suits are going to be armor focused just like the ships, but IMO it will leave the AA in a really odd place.

It's now a dedicated armor suit, but the slot layout hasn't been changed.

When the AA was a hybrid tanker and damage mods were still at 10%, having the slot layout as it is gave the AA flexibility. It could put on the best buffer a medium suit could imagine or stack armor and do crazy damage.

Now the AA is just going to be gimped. Lets compare it to the Gallente assault for armor tanking potential.

at standard, the AA has 1 low slot. The GA has 3. That's two plates and a repper, plus native regen. How the hell is the Amarr suit supposed to compete with that?

What could be put into those high slots that would balance that out?

I'm not touching the fact that the amarr suits are still down a slot compared to other races, it's more a matter of usable slots. High slots have way less utility than low for an armor tanker.

What should happen is that the H/L layout for std and militia suits need to be swapped. so the amarr suit has 1/2 at standard and 0/2 at militia. Because an amarr suit with 2 high slots on an armor suit is basically telling newbies to go **** themselves if they pick amarr.

Having an overabundance of high slots with new new changes might be more useful than I believe, but it'll be a hard sell.

Would you trade 10 PG and 50 CPU for that slot? Just wondering.

still better than mimatar assault. Amarr scout > minmatar assault.

Huh?

Off-topic, for starters. Also, the Minmatar Assault has more slots, more hp (75 or so), more speed, more combat-focused bonuses, and would generally curb-stomp the Amarr Assault in every conceivable way. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever read, and I read politics everyday.

If you ask CCP Remnant nicely he might share. I hear he likes fillet steak.

Would you trade 10 PG and 50 CPU for that slot? Just wondering.

Hard call. Always have to keep in mind that there is a stamina boost too.

If it's just the cpu/pg, then yes. If it means giving up the built in cardiac regulator too, I'm not so sure.

I think the Amarr suit should also have a faster sprint speed and melee damage, so it would be like it had a good amount of biotics built in to the suit, as the suit description does go out of it's way to specify that the suit bonds itself to the wearer in a more pronounced and painful way.

Plus it would help make the Amarr suit distinct from the Gallente. If the only changes to the suit are making it focused on low slots and giving it one more of them it would come out looking just like a Gallente frame without the innate reps. Something needs to be done to make sure this suit keeps a distinct flavor. Adding the effects of a few other biotics does that better than any slot layout could do.

So the Amarr Assault suit is being changed to be armor centric. I'm sure the RP'ers out there love the fact the amarr suits are going to be armor focused just like the ships, but IMO it will leave the AA in a really odd place.

It's now a dedicated armor suit, but the slot layout hasn't been changed.

When the AA was a hybrid tanker and damage mods were still at 10%, having the slot layout as it is gave the AA flexibility. It could put on the best buffer a medium suit could imagine or stack armor and do crazy damage.

Now the AA is just going to be gimped. Lets compare it to the Gallente assault for armor tanking potential.

at standard, the AA has 1 low slot. The GA has 3. That's two plates and a repper, plus native regen. How the hell is the Amarr suit supposed to compete with that?

What could be put into those high slots that would balance that out?

I'm not touching the fact that the amarr suits are still down a slot compared to other races, it's more a matter of usable slots. High slots have way less utility than low for an armor tanker.

What should happen is that the H/L layout for std and militia suits need to be swapped. so the amarr suit has 1/2 at standard and 0/2 at militia. Because an amarr suit with 2 high slots on an armor suit is basically telling newbies to go **** themselves if they pick amarr.

Having an overabundance of high slots with new new changes might be more useful than I believe, but it'll be a hard sell.

Unfortunately we didn't get a chance to redo the slots and PG/CPU for all the medium frames in Uprising 1.8. Expect those changes to come in a future update.

Are you sure we can expect those changes in a future update?

Are you sure we can expect those changes in a future update?

CCP would have to give the Amarr medium frames an extra 135 armor HP base that's 345 base armor HP to compensate for the missing low slot and slower speed.