Assaults need to be the suit that never lets back, keeping the enemy on it's toes.
Assaults should respond quickly to evolving threats, without having to stop and lick their wounds.
That would require very very fast regen rate, faster than any suit can achieve without gimping itself, just like trying to EWAR with an assault is gimping yourself.

I would suggest:
Caldari: 100hp/s on shields | 0hp/s on armor
Minmatar: 80hp/s on shields | 4hp/s on armor
Amarr: 60hp/s on shields | 12hp/s on armor
Gallente: 60hp/s on shields | 15hp/s on armor


Another option would be lower base numbers, but bonuses to make rechargers, energizers, regulators and armor repairers better, depending on the suit.

I would like to repeat my suggestion since I feel like it was lost during the Legion storm despite being quite liked.



Note: These numbers are an example.
While I feel like Assault suits need numbers in the same ballpark as those^, I haven't done the theory crafting so I'm not sure what will happen.

If you find some flaw with these numbers, go ahead and point them out.

I dont have a problem with the theory but they need to be weak enough that amour stacking does not make them a fotm replaceing heavys and weakenough that they can just heal though damage or blinkheal.

Its a nice idea thats really easy to get wrong :|

It is problematic, which is why I suggested as an alternative to still have high base repair, but instead of putting it at those very high levels they should bonus armor repairers.

So say instead of 15hp/s?
Have 6hp/s + 35% armor repairer bonus.

Massive bonuses to the respective modules is what I've wanted for a while now.

But having a base regen amount like that would mean those regen modules would be pointless. You don't want to give suits free modules...

That way players don't just see 100/s shield regen and only stack extenders.
This is one of the many reasons why the Caldari scout is good...because you get a 50/s regen automatically, allowing you to just stack extenders and not think twice about a shield energizer/recharger...or having to sacrifice a slot for it.

Same thing with the range extension, profile dampening, precision stuff for scouts.

You don't see my minmatar logistics have a free repair tool because I get a bonus to repair tools do you? I have to sacrifice a slot to gain that bonus. Same thing with almost every other suit bonus in the game (aside from the sentinels...but it's not like we have a resistance module for dropsuits)

In the same way I don't like the current Scout bonuses. But whatever, that's a different topic.

These assault bonuses could be built-in to the suit, too, rather than being built up by level