Because that will never be abused

Currently HMG Sentinels are WP starved.
- No equipment slots mean we only get WP for slaying and hacking.
- Slow movement speeds mean we usually are not the first to get to a hackable objective.
- Slow movement speed means it takes us longer to get to the enemy, so a good Sentinel tends to get less kills when hunting (due to less engagements) than a good Assault or Scout.

The one time when a Sentinel does shine is when defending a heavily contested point. When the enemy are coming to me, my slow movement speed is not a factor in getting engagements. Of course, Logi any suit with Uplinks, Nano Hives, Repair Tools, Scanners, Remote Explosives, or Nanite Injectors get a lot more WP than I do when I am defending a heavily contested point.

- Bonus points for kills/assists against someone who is hacking would be very helpful.

- Sentinels should also get a 10 WP bonus for kills, and 5 WP for Assists within 30m of a friendly objective. This would reward Sentinels for the defensive role that they are good at, and compensate them for their lack of an equipment slot.

Edit: I made the mistake of mentioning logi in my original post which really set off a fire storm. I was only trying to show that all the other classes made more WP than Sentinels, but apparently this is a very sensitive subject for Logi. I now realize that I should have restricted my comparison to Scouts and Assault suits which are both faster, and have equipment slots.

Perspective:
If Sentinels got an additional 10 WP for every kill when defending a point, then in an average match where the Sentinel gets 10 to 20 kills, the bonus would net an additional 100 to 200 WP. This would be the equivalent of 4 to 8 spawns from an Uplink. Even in an extreme situation where a Sentinel got 40 kills defending Objectives, that would only be 400 additional WP, or the equivalent of 16 spawns from an Uplink. (Keep in mind that an Assault suit or Scout gets a new Uplink every time they respawn, so it is not hard to refresh an Uplink often enough to get 16 spawns in a match.)

No

It makes it dam hard to get the SP cap as a Heavy, particularly on these triple active SP weeks. I can sometimes max out in a normal week by Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, but even grinding many additional hours I was still 300 SP short of my cap this past week.

Not to mention the fact they are talking about taking away the HeavyGÇÖs ability to Hack in Legion, which will make things even worse.

If it could be setup in such a way that it could not be easily exploited, then the damage absorption bonus might be a good answer.