Armor plates and shield extenders get an efficacy bonus too, except that it's more noticicable of 2% per level for a total of 10%

That makes complex shield extenders 72.6 instead of 66 and complex armor plates 148.5 instead of 135.

A single complex kin cat can increase an assault's sprint speed from 7 to 7.84. With the efficacy bonus it increases to 7.88. That's a .04 increase to sprint speed, which is negligible. Even with [two] ... kin cat, you won't even be able to get more than a .1 increase to sprint speed from that efficacy bonus. I think this is silly because it's basically a useless bonus.

The Biotics skill itself I believe is fine. It's a marginal increase but totally worth it.

The KinCat efficiency bonus is a joke and really needs to be bumped up however.

The Kinetic Catalyzation skill currents gives a 1% efficacy bonus per level for KinCats.



For this very reason, I propose raising the bonus from 1% to 2% or even 3% per level.

You could simply give the bonus to the suit instead of the module, this would be way more balanced compared to profiledampening e.g.

The modules bonus is just too small to make any bonus to it worth close to 1mil SP

I'd like it to be more useful. I have a feeling that its low "effect" is a result of the overall limits they put on unit speed (apparently the engine and hit-detection stop working with the higher speeds). I recall IWS saying that's why there wouldn't be any speed increases or something to that effect.

It might be more practical to increase the base values on kincats to whatever the current modified levels would be at Rank 5, then make the skill passive a fitting bonus.

As much as I would like this, the reason we can't really do this (according to CCP) is because the Scouts' animation goes batshit after a certain speed threshold. A technical barrier that is going to need to be fixed in the future but, if it's true, needs to be on the back burner while other issues are worked out.