The new values of 2.5, 5 and 7.5HP/s are before skills i assume? Which would mean we can add another 25% on top of a repper. Which then means it would turn out as 3.125HP/s, 6.25HP/s and 9.375HP7s (basic-complex). Im warning you CCP a gallente heavy will get too close to high amounts of regen with 4 complex reppers. Which means that he can achieve 38,5HP/s (+1HP/s allready added!) which overlaps extremely with the caldari sentinel regen speed (30hp/s on default).

Alright.

These are mostly a good set of changes with the ideas behind them solid.
However, I have a few concerns.

Firstly, on the various grenade changes - Core locus grenades do not need a buff. They are already handheld nuclear weapons. Correct airbursting will allow you to kill any non-heavy in one grenade.

I am curious as to why you opted to increase AV grenade damage rather than just revert the grenade count change. I feel that while that was justified on the locus to reduce grenade spam (as grenades were becoming comparatively more effective killing tools with 1.8 TTK changes) there was never any need to reduce the count on either AV or flux grenades.

I do not believe contact grenades need a nerf. They're already barely used, further reductions in damage are unnecessary.



I'm a huge fan of these cloak changes. 0/2.5/5% profile dampening bonuses make barely any difference and I can't see any time that would actually have a real effect, but removing the dampening bonus cloaks give is a nice tweak. The duration change! That was unexpected, but I love it!

I've never taken the cloak to prototype, but now I have a reason to. Good work! I do have a question though - are the recharge rates changing?


The armour changes look okay. Active reps appear to be done as a % though - they're not changing from a linear HP/s are they?

Basic plates have long needed to take up more than 1 PG, that's a good change. However, complex appears to have had its requirements increased while enhanced has had a decrease. This seems odd to me - enhanced plates have always felt like the gold standard for armour plates while the complex was an overly expensive variant that I never bothered with.

Ferroscale and reactive changes are nice, as are the reps.

AR/CR changes are pretty pathetic, 2% changes won't make a single bullet of difference in the vast, vast majority of cases. I recommend having a look at the number of bullets taken to kill rather than considering it just as a %. If there's zero change in bullets to kill there is zero change in TTK, so the change is pointless. As it is, I doubt there'll be any change in bullets required to kill except on 1000+ EHP suits.

Plasma cannon changes are eh and I still won't use it for serious AV but it's nice to finally see some love for them.

I notice you've cancelled the movement of the Gallente passive rep to the Amarr suit (at least for this patch). I'd just like to say that it makes no sense to move the reps from the active tankers to the passive tankers. Instead, I recommend increasing the base armour HP on the Amarr suit. Actually, I'd recommend that across the board. I notice you've also suggested an increase in the number of slots some Amarr suits have - for the Amarr assault, that's overdue. I look forward to that change.

Changes to the large blaster dispersion = HELL YES. I greatly look forward to there being fewer instagib infantry Madrugars roaming about (or at least less effectively).

In all fairness, we are discussing completely eliminating the restocking of all grenades by nanohives, this is the moderated proposal. (We would keep them for supply depots)

But it doesn't, that's the point. If you have a 2% change on each and neither changes the number of bullets required to kill, there is no net change.

People didn't just take up the ACR because it took half the damage nerf that some of the other weapons did. There are a whole host of reasons for choosing the ACR over the AR - better damage profile (especially important with the proficiency changes), better range, better RoF (important on the slowdown effect)...

Armor reps repairs through damage though. Shield don't. Hence the higher recharge on shields with complex energizers. Its very balanced.

Exept gal sent never stops repping
And has more armor than aregen tank cal sent has shields.

Energisers remove hp
After skills gallente has more armor than cal has shieles
In 3 seconds or less gallente has repped more or same armor as cal would have shield, un interupted
And gallente have shields over armor
I will be happy when shields have no delay or rep even faster.