Artificer Ghost
Learning Coalition College
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Posted - 2014.03.13 23:40:00 -
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I'm just a Gallente-Scrub, but here's my idea...
Someone's earlier idea - Increase Amarr base armor. That's good, and definitely a great idea... But let's take it a step further.
Make Armor Plates percentage-based. This will do a number of things:
-You won't see Caldari Suits with 5000 armor anymore...
-Amarr suits will be better brick tankers...
-Gallente suits SHOULD have less base armor (and more base shield, stop trying to make Amarr dual-tankers, CCP*), which means less brick-tanking.
In turn, as to not stomp out the Gallente:
-Increase all shield stats to be better than Amarr shield stats. I'll get to this.
-Increase the 1.8 reps to 5.0 at proto-level (I haven't looked much at the stats, but I assume reps increase with tier).
-Swap slot counts with Gallente and Amarr for the matching role (Proto A-Logi will have 3/5 and G-Logi will have 4/4 or whatever it is.
-Make a high-slot module that increases passive reps by a percentage. Which means if you have a rep rate of 0%, this won't help.**
*In EVE, Amarr are the huge armor tankers and Gallente have better shielding altogether. Ships like the Myrmidon, a Gallente Battlecruiser, are often shield-tanked. It's not perfect, but it's still deadly. I don't know why they didn't match it in DUST. For some reason they want to make the Amarr dual-tankers when the Gallente should be.
**This will make Gallente better rep-tanks, and make rep-tanking viable. Think: 4 complex reps, each going at 5% each. Without skills, that's a base armor rep of 25.0hp/s. Now, with the high-slot modules, we got, let's say, +30% per module (might be overkill, but it's all trial and error). 25 + 90% = 47.5hp/s. If anyone wants to work with stacking penalties...
Anyways. Yus. Making rep-tank viable. That's enough to withstand an Assault Rifle for quite a bit. Compared to current TTK at least.
Of course, Gallente will just brick-tank and fill the highs with rep boosters, meaning they get rep-tanks and brick-tanks... Someone find a way to avoid that!
~Art, CEO and DoE at Learning Coalition College, Co-Founder of the Learning Coalition
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