Personally i see no problems with a Caldari Assault reaching 600 shields with a 1.6 second delay with a rate of 50, or a HP of 400 with a delay of 1.6 and a rate of 116, OR 600/300 HPs, with a delay of 8 or 10, with a rate of 50.

Those numbers for the Caldari Assault would not be achievable without a ridiculous buff to shield extenders. Not to mention that shield recharger practically require one low for a CPU upgrade.

A more reasonable Caldari Assault would look like.

470 shield / 48hp/s with a 1.75 delay

This assumes that complex regulator gets buffed to 40% and extenders and recharger at pro remains the same.

Does that balance with the gallente assault? Hmm ideally heavy regen shields repair twice as fast as heavy regen armor. So for your gallente it would be around 20 seconds (20 hp/s * 20s = 400 hp). For that Caldari Assault it would be 11.75 seconds.

This seems OK to me once you factor in the shield as a buffer on armor tankers and the ability for damage mods in high slots.

perhaps new damage mods that work only against shields or armor but with a higher damage bonus? especially since thats what they did already to the proficiency skills

and this is all kinda off track, but what the melee damage mod included a bonus to movement speed? to offset the penalties from armor plates

complex regulators with 40% to shield delay but 25% to depleted shield delay? honestly, why would you be letting your shields go to zero in the first place unless youre armor tanking?

I fit a gallente on protofits with 500 armor and 200 shields with armor rep of 20 HP/s, two proto precision enhancers, proto weapon, advanced sidearm, and advanced nanohive.
Please keep in mind how tough shield extenders are on PG. In our little comparison the gallente has 100 more HP and the Caldari has zero armor rep. I really think you are over estimating the cal assault in this case. If it's a long range encounter cal assault has advantage but if you met head to head, within the AR range the Caldari is done for. Furthermore armor is always repping, if your engagement lasts just 5 seconds (reasonable for two good players 1v1) then your 100 HP original advantage all the sudden becomes 200 HP advantage.

Edit : Oh and in a real fight, the gallente still holds and advantage to brawl with multiple enemies. Shield tankers get screwed really fast if they get caught with their pants down and can't break fire. Trust me it happens all the time.

Sorry CatMerc, but a armor tanked Amarr Sentinel with 2x complex kincats would be the absolute end of Dust for me as far as I'm concerned. Hell, a 50/50 rep/armor stacked Gallente Sentinal with 1 complex Kincat would be f'n insane. I'd be happy to give you PG upgrades, Cardiac regs and codebreakers as highs if you need high slot variety though.

make kincats high slots and damage mods low slots

There is already a thread detailing how that would be a bad thing by many experienced minjas here.

@ Cat Merc

I understand you've enjoyed your past 3 months as a "Scout". I understand you're having tons 'o fun slapping bricks on our precision instrument, and I'm sure you're quite good at it. I understand you'd like to "go fast" at 700 HP 'cause it'd be #yoloswag (or whatever you slayer types call it) so why not switch Biotics to highs?

But Scouts -- actual Scouts -- don't appreciate popping into official feedback threads and finding our beloved, precision instruments being discussed, defiled and/or tweaked to support the whims of an "Assault Lite" FoTM-chasing band of Tourist scrubs and wannabes. No offense.

If you'd like to know why your ideas on Scouts are bad, post them here and actual Scouts will be glad to tell you. Seriously, we welcome all inquiries and would enjoy spit-balling concepts and crafting theories; pop in anytime, you might actually learn something. This same invitation is extended to everyone, Scout or otherwise.

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