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Regeneration is an important part of the Assaulting role, and as such they should have the best regeneration when compared to their other racial suits.

While I don't mean to derail the thread, KAGEHOSHI made an excellent point on what the Assault & Basic Medium Frames slots should look like, which should be looked into as well.

I have mentioned multiple times in the past that I think assaults need regeneration on steroids, something no other suit can achieve without being gimped.

This has been my consensus for a long while as well. But I wondered if there are other less obvious ways.

Well, all my other ideas include stuff that cannot be done with hotfixes, so they're out of the question.

This would probably be hell to balance properly, but what if assaults had a flat bonus to all modules used in their respective slots. For example, A gallente assault would have a 5% bonus to any module used in a low slot while a caldari assault would get the same for highs. Minmatar and Amarr would split the bonuses unevenly with 2% and 3% bonuses to their preferred slots.

I could put together a spreadsheet showing module bonuses if this is considered.

Besides that I'm already having an easier time using my assault suit with the armor repair modules buffed. I'm able to recover from surprise scout attacks and long skirmishes with heavies so maybe we could push repping further.

I have mentioned multiple times in the past that I think assaults need regeneration on steroids, something no other suit can achieve without being gimped.

This would probably be hell to balance properly, but what if assaults had a flat bonus to all modules used in their respective slots. For example, A gallente assault would have a 5% bonus to any module used in a low slot while a caldari assault would get the same for highs. Minmatar and Amarr would split the bonuses unevenly with 2% and 3% bonuses to their preferred slots.

I could put together a spreadsheet showing module bonuses if this is considered.

Besides that I'm already having an easier time using my assault suit with the armor repair modules buffed. I'm able to recover from surprise scout attacks and long skirmishes with heavies so maybe we could push repping further.

Take for example, the Shield Extender. Assuming you mean 5% efficiency per level, you would essentially be adding a 25% buff to Shield Extenders; pair that with the 10% efficiency that Shield Extension gives you, and your looking at 90HP Extenders at the Complex Tier.

Caldari Assaults would be inherently broken. Though there are possible workarounds to this, such as given certain efficiency bonuses for certain modules. i.e

+2% Shield Extender efficiency per level and +5% Shield Recharger & Energizer efficiency per level.

I've an idea, but it'd mean implementing new modules entirely. (And they said they wont be doing client side updates)
Weapon Mod slots.
Each suit would have an amount of Weapon mod slots, Assaults (At prototype) with 4 or so, Heavies and lights with 2, and Logis with 1.

This would mean creating new sills, moving damage modules to these new slots, and making modules such as ammo expansion, heat sinks, possibly RoF mods etc.
It'd be nice.

Well, Assault ships in EVE get bonuses to Micro Warp Drives, which is like kinetic catalyzers on steroids.

We could try to give assaults kin cat bonuses, but that would somewhat imbalance shield and armor assaults, since one can both have a full rack of tank and kin cats, while the other needs to choose to sacrifice tank to have one kin cat.

I've said this before, but I'll do so one last time. Give an additional bonus to each racial suit in order to increase it's survivability, and thus it's killing effectiveness.

Gallente:
3~5% Bonus to Armor Repair Modules and Reactive Plates Per Level

Result: Gallente Assaults become an armor buffer tank who get additional eHP and repairs from reactive plates and a lot better repairs from their armor repair modules. Gallente assault becomes viable.

Amarr:
3~5% Bonus to a Armor Plates and Ferroscale Plates Per Level

Result: Amarr assaults become armor eHP tanks, basically becoming a light heavy suit with a smaller hit box. Amarr assault becomes viable

Caldari:
3~5% Bonus to Shield Extender, Recharger and Energizer Modules Per Level

Result: Caldari suits become shield eHP tanks with super fast shield regeneration. Caldari assault becomes viable.

Minmatar:
20% Increase to Damage Modules and 3~5% Increase to Shield Regulator Modules Per Level

Result: Minmatar Assault becomes a hit-and-run shield buffer tank with high DPS and low eHP. Minmatar assault becomes viable.




The Minmatar bonus is tricky because you don't want to make it tanky but you want it to be effective. Giving it a bonus to 20% damage mods lets their damage mods to 10% at level 5 instead of the current 5%, thus helping them to make up for their ridiculously low eHP. And the regulator bonus also helps them make up for their low eHP by helping them get their shields back more quickly.

I think the other bonuses speak for themselves.

Somehow I feel like this alone still wouldn't give me enough of a significant reason to choose assault over scouts or logi's.

Just gut, but i'd love to see some fits that demonstrate the strength of this suggestion :D

BTW, gg earlier Baal, those knives hurt

I looked at Kagehoshi's thread and something that's been bothering me lately has been the reality that modules account for the VAST majority of all tank on all suits aside from sentinels/commando's.

If your suits base EHP comprised a MUCH larger % of your EHP pool andbrick tanking as a whole might only increase youre pool by say...30% as opposed to the 80% is is most of the time for non heavy frames (let's not get into e-war or gank) then I think balancing things like assaults and even modules like rechargers and regulators would be MUCH easier.

Because the choice isn't so drastic to your tank of choice.

Also, chew on this idea...to create imperfect balance what if we made assaults the ones with the close to parity of high/low slots (think 5 high's 3 low's on a caldari) while logi's were more polarized (6 high's 2 lows on caldari).

Just a thought to create more diversity.

I usually agree with what kagehoshi says but that idea is a marvellously presented pile of sht.

Any proper logi will be forced to give up their regen to stack plates and shields if they lose slots.

The slayer Logis will just stack full plates and shields and carry triarge hives.


So basically just a big dump on Logis because of the few scrubbers, dusts life story.

There are big problems with the medium frame slot layouts that need to be addressed. "Too long; didn't read" (TL;DR) version on post 2 (click here).



Slayer logi issue originates from the logis to tank more HP than their assault counterparts, allowing them to be more survivable killing platforms. This problem won't truly go away until the slots are handled correctly, just right now brick-tank scouts are bigger issue.

Logis sacrifice sidearms, mobility, & base HP in exchange for for 2-3 more equipment (equip) slots than their assault counterparts. That seems like a fair deal, but on top of the 2 or 3 more equip slots, there is some crazy weirdness with the slot layouts that leads to imbalance.

- At standard (STD) tier all logis (with the odd exception of the Amarr (Am) one) have inferior module (mod) slot layouts compared to the STD assault counterparts.
- Advanced (ADV) tier logis either get equal or superior mod slot layouts compared to their ADV assault counterparts.
- Prototype (PRO) tier logis all gain an extra low slot than their PRO assault counterpart, the caldari one also gains an extra high slot also.

Summary: logis underpowered (UP) at STD tier, balanced or overpowered (OP) at ADV, & all OP at PRO.

No reason for the Caldari (Cal) logi only having 2 equip at STD instead of 3; it isn't gaining anything extra compared to other STD logis or its assault counterpart for the sacrifice. The STD Cal logi is UP even compared to the other UP STD logis.

There is also the issue of the Am medium slot layouts. 1.8 has Am mediums shifting from hybrid tanking (equal shields & armor) to predominantly having armor; this requires a slot layout change of more low slots for effective armor tanking. Right now the progression of Am mediums is odd, they start with more high slots (2 at militia (MLT) & STD).

Am assault has less mod slots than other assaults. Yes it has a tiny 30 more base HP than the Caldari & Gallente assault, a small advantage already countered by being the slowest assault. It should be noted that the Am scout, Am sentinel, & Am commando also has more base HP compared to the other races' dropsuits of the same roles, yet these other Am suits aren't forced to give up a slot; neither should the Am assault since the extra HP is already balanced by the speed loss. This issue makes the Am assault suffer the most from the brick-tanked scout problem, since the Am scout has more mod slots at STD-ADV than the assault, & same mod slot count at PRO; this allows the Am scout to surpass the Am assault in HP, while being faster, having a 2nd equip, stealthier, etc.

Give basic frames a purpose, there is 36 STD-PRO basic frames; way too many suits in the game to have be completely useless; useless because they're inferior versions of the specialized suits (ex: assaults, scouts, etc), & they can't even be used as a way to save money since they cost the same as the specialized suits; there is no reason to use a basic frame after unlocking specialization. We should never have 36 items that are worthless. For more on the basic frame issue go here.

Basic mediums should be generalized middle-ground between the assault & logi, it would make the assault truly specialized by comparison instead of just being basic frames with bonuses added. It would also give players the ability to test-drive both assault & logi roles before specializing; right now you can test out the assault role with a basic medium, but can't with a logi role with their parent frame.




Part 1: assault & logi

Give the Cal logistics 3 equip slots at STD. Also 4 equip at PRO (reduce mod slot from 9 to 8 in exchange).

Give all assaults the same number of mod slots.

Equalize the mod slot layouts for assaults & logis of the same race & tier:

Assault & logi STD (high/low)
Am: 2/4
Ga: 2/4
Ca: 4/2 (+1 equip for logi)
Min: 3/3

Assault & logi ADV
Am: 2/5
Ga: 3/4
Ca: 5/2
Min: 4/3

Assault & logi PRO
Am: 3/5
Ga: 3/5
Ca: 5/3 (+1 equip for logi)
Min: 4/4



Part 2: basic medium frames
To fix the aforementioned issue, basic medium frames should have:

One more equip for a total of 2. Makes basics generalist between assault & logi.

1 less mod slot than their assault & logi counterparts; Tradeoff for more equip slots.

Basic medium MLT (high/low/equip)
Am: 2/2/2
Ga: 1/3/2
Ca: 3/1/2
Min: 2/1/2

Basic medium STD
Am: 2/3/2
Ga: 2/3/2
Ca: 3/2/2
Min: 3/2/2

Basic medium ADV
Am: 2/4/2
Ga: 2/4/2
Ca: 4/2/2
Min: 3/3/2

Basic medium PRO
Am: 3/4/2
Ga: 2/5/2
Ca: 5/2/2
Min: 4/3/2

Obviously PG/CPU should be tweaked
Both assaults & logis have the same mod slot counts: 6 STD, 7 ADV, 8 PRO. Most logis did not get a mod slot nerf in this plan

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Officially entering this idea in the contest, major assault slot buff. I want ISK.

I recommend Aero and Kagehoshi's suggestion, which has also to do with Commandos.

And maybe Cat Merc's regeneration idea.

Also, you may want to add a link to the video.

Premise

"There is too much overlap between the Assault and Commando." This is something I hear very often, and it definitely has its share of truth. Over the course of my Dust career I've dabbled in every role, but by far my most used suits are the Assault and Commando. While I can tell apart the very subtle differences between the suits and what would be a better choice in a certain situation, it has gotten to the point where after the Uprising 1.8 respec I skilled into every class except the Assault because it was too similar to the Commando to warrant another couple million of my SP. What's even more worrisome is CCP notices this as well as evident by the Commando not even existing in the current build of Project Legion. However, for the purposes of this thread let's keep the discussion to what can be done to differentiate the Assault and Commando through hotfixes in Dust 514. If successful, maybe we can see the Commandos return in Legion


My Proposal

Let me stress that this is just my opinion on what would make the two roles distinct. Please take it for nothing more. Use it as a starting ground to bring your own proposals to the table, or don't and bring up new proposals completely unrelated to how I do it! The point is, let's all come up with ideas and provide constructive feedback to each other.

So let me begin. Currently there isn't much differentiating the two. Both specializations bring hard hitting firepower to the table, while the Assaults get a little more mobility and a smaller hitbox whereas Commandos get two light weapons and more EHP. These are some great starting points, but not nearly enough to truly differentiate the two. I would believe the problem really starts to come into play when you examine the bonuses. The Assaults generally get bonuses that extend the fight, such as Amarr being able to fire laser weaponry longer, Minmatar being able to fire more projectile rounds before reloading, and Caldari being able to reload rails faster to continue shooting again sooner. The Commandos on the other time all have bonuses that shorten the fight, with flat DPS bonuses to down the enemy quicker. When you consider that the Assault is the one with less EHP that means it is less survivable in full out firefights which means it doesn't make sense that it would want to extend the fight. Really, the bonuses are backwards. Assaults should be trying to end a fight as soon as possible, whereas a Commando should be extending it (the Dust in-game client calls Commandos "the ultimate suppression fighters"). So let's start with this:

Assault Class: 2% increased damage to light weapons and sidearms per level
Amarr Assault: 5% decreased heat build up to laser weaponry per level
Caldari Assault: 5% increased magazine size to hybrid - rail weaponry per level
Gallente Assault: 5% increased magazine size to hybrid - blaster weaponry per level
Minmatar Assault: 5% increased magazine size to projectile weaponry per level
*adjusted based on Kagehoshi's feedback

Alright so now time for the Commando. This is a little trickier because it's not as simple as simply taking all the old assault, because for one they weren't that great to begin with, secondly the Caldari Assault's bonus overlaps with the Commando class bonus, and thirdly the Gallente Assault's bonus doesn't really fit with the theme of "the ultimate suppression fighter." So what would work? Well if we are going to go for making them suppression fighters then ammo capacity seems like a logical place to look at. And if it is going to be ammo capacity, then it will have to be something significant to make it feel worth it. So how about this:

Commando Class: 20% increased ammo capacity of light weapons and sidearms per level
Amarr Commando: 5% increased reload speed of laser weaponry per level
Caldari Commando: 5% increased reload speed of hybrid - rail weaponry per level
Gallente Commando: 5% increased reload speed of hybrid - blaster weaponry per level
Minmatar Commando: 5% increased reload speed of projectile and explosive weaponry per level
*adjusted based on Kagehoshi's feedback

Do note that for both the Assault and Commando, all bonuses apply to both light weapons and sidearms. This is because one should not be penalized for wanting to use a sidearm in the light weapon slot, as it is a cascading system. And this actually paves the way for the Assault to have two light weapon slots as discussed for Project Legion and still be distinctive enough from the Commando.


Conclusion

The Assault and Commando now fill two very distinctive roles. The Assault class as the speed and mobility to charge in bases or flank the enemy and then deal with them quickly, whereas the Commando is less mobile but still able to keep up with the squad and has the EHP to provide constant suppression fire with up two twice the normal ammo capacity and a fast reload speed to boot! The Commando may not be doing much killing as it won't have the strongest weapons (the Assault will) but it will be able to constantly fire for a long duration, even if it knows it is not hitting anyone, and become that "ultimate suppression fighter."

This is AMAZING, but perhaps a little 2 ambitious. <3 BUT STILL AMAZEBALLS

But what do I know... I'm 12.

Thanks.
Another advantage i see from this is that it counteracts the Logi argument that they have to spend more isk and Sp on their fittings.
Might be ambitious, but there's no reason not to pass it on to CCP from time to time

I looked at Kagehoshi's thread and something that's been bothering me lately has been the reality that modules account for the VAST majority of all tank on all suits aside from sentinels/commando's.

If your suits base EHP comprised a MUCH larger % of your EHP pool andbrick tanking as a whole might only increase youre pool by say...30% as opposed to the 80% is is most of the time for non heavy frames (let's not get into e-war or gank) then I think balancing things like assaults and even modules like rechargers and regulators would be MUCH easier.

Because the choice isn't so drastic to your tank of choice.

Also, chew on this idea...to create imperfect balance what if we made assaults the ones with the close to parity of high/low slots (think 5 high's 3 low's on a caldari) while logi's were more polarized (6 high's 2 lows on caldari).

Just a thought to create more diversity.

Logis currently sacrifice:
-Shield
-Armor
-Sidearm
-Movement/sprint speed

For +1 module slot and + 3 equipment slots.

So giving assaults the same (or more) slots just wouldn't be right.
Logis are hunted by everyone,and have to pay 10k+ isk for a single piece of equipment.

Unless logis get buffed in some way,i'll fight this suggestion tooth and nail.



Simple answer?

Buff assault eHP to above basic mediums but below commando,and buff logis speed (2nd only to scouts) and hack (to be the fastest) that would be a reasonable trade.



inb4 2nd spam (grenade) slot

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He didn't say 5% per level.

And I think it's quite a hasty assumption to discount the idea even if it was 5% per level until you theorycraft a fit and demonstrate why it's broken. 2 many good ideas get tossed out before they have been considered because of feedback like this.

90 on a complex would only be an increase of 54 ehp with 3 complex shield extenders.

I hardly see how that is gamebreaking.

I do kind of feel that assaults should also have slightly better ewar being like: Light [ Scout ] > Medium [ Assaut > Logistics ] > Heavy [ Commando > Sentinel ]

As it stands scouts have a monopoly on it:

BASE EWAR STATS [ Profile / Precision / Radius ]
[ 35 / 40 / 20.0 ] Scout
[ 50 / 50 / 10.0 ] Assault
[ 50 / 45 / 15.0 ] Logistics
[ 60 / 55 / 10.0 ] Commando
[ 60 / 55 / 10.0 ] Sentinel

A more appealing curve taking the current scout attributes as a starting point
[ 35 / 40 / 20.0 ] Scout
[ 40 / 45 / 17.5 ] Assault
[ 45 / 50 / 15.0 ] Logistics
[ 50 / 55 / 12.5 ] Commando
[ 55 / 60 / 10.0 ] Sentinel

Given the Scout's inherent ability bonuses and ease of use of a cloak Assaults would never really compete directly on EWAR, but they can dabble in it with modules and catch other classes off guard.

This is wild speculations by the way and can be a nice change, there's been NO number analysis on this, just mentioning that EWAR is another field we can take into account, heck at least let us be the same as the other medium suits! lol

Interesting idea but I don't think it would make the role any more viable than it is currently.

I see a lot of people claim scouts have the same or more hp than assaults. This is simply not true.

For example, a fully shield tanked advanced caldari assault has about 35% more hp than a fully shield tanked advanced caldari scout.

For comparison, the scout only has a 9% higher movement speed.

I frequently see scouts with more hp than my min assault (600 HP at pro usually). Yes assaults CAN out tank a scout, but the point is that the HP scouts can achieve is far to close to the average medium frame. Mix this along with better ewar and regen and speed.. Well that's why no one is using assault.

But don't you see, saying that scouts "can achieve" more hp than the "average medium frame" is not a fair comparison because you are comparing brick tanked proto suits with non-brick standard/advanced suits. Or armor tanked suits with shield tanked suits.

Considering balance is more complex than that. You need to compare equivalent tiers and similar tanking styles.

Amarr suit comparison

This is much better. The Amarr assault is gaining a low slot in hot fix bravo which will change things a lot. I use Amarr assaults myself and definitely agree that it needs the extra slot to be comparable to the other assaults. The bonus is awesome though.

The Amarr scout is considered to be the worst, however not because of it's lack of ability to be an assault suit but because it lacks a bonus that is helpful in the scout role.

Maybe regen (as well as base hp and cpu/pg as I have already suggested) is something else that needs adjusting for assaults and maybe scouts too. Though care would be needed as with the upcoming improvements to regulators and rechargers it would be a shame if nobody felt the need to use them.

So thanks for the proper comparison but I don't think you chose a good example considering the upcoming changes to Amarr assaults.

I still think it's a great exaggeration to say that scout suits (fitted for the assault role) have similar hp to assault suits.

Edit:
I haven't tried recreating your fits but for a quick comparison, say you fit an extra enhanced plate in the extra slot you will get in bravo. The Amarr assault will now have approximately 26% more hp than the scout. That is not really what I would call "similar". I'm not saying assaults don't need a buff. I just think they only need a small one. I accept that it might not be that easy to just fit an extra enhanced plate, since cpu/pg won't be changed in bravo.

This is much better. The Amarr assault is gaining a low slot in hot fix bravo which will change things a lot. I use Amarr assaults myself and definitely agree that it needs the extra slot to be comparable to the other assaults. The bonus is awesome though.

The Amarr scout is considered to be the worst, however not because of it's lack of ability to be an assault suit but because it lacks a bonus that is helpful in the scout role.

Maybe regen (as well as base hp and cpu/pg as I have already suggested) is something else that needs adjusting for assaults and maybe scouts too. Though care would be needed as with the upcoming improvements to regulators and rechargers it would be a shame if nobody felt the need to use them.

So thanks for the proper comparison but I don't think you chose a good example considering the upcoming changes to Amarr assaults.

I still think it's a great exaggeration to say that scout suits (fitted for the assault role) have similar hp to assault suits.

Edit:
I haven't tried recreating your fits but for a quick comparison, say you fit an extra enhanced plate in the extra slot you will get in bravo. The Amarr assault will now have approximately 26% more hp than the scout. That is not really what I would call "similar". I'm not saying assaults don't need a buff. I just think they only need a small one. I accept that it might not be that easy to just fit an extra enhanced plate, since cpu/pg won't be changed in bravo.

After taking your suggestion and theorycrafing fittings, I've found that your correct and they aren't gamebreaking. Apologies for jumping the gun there.

But if his proposal is not on a per level basis then it'd be worthless. Nobody's going to invest SP or use a suit that only gives them an extra 3.3HP per extender or 0.25% damage increase.

Caldari suit comparison

Regeneration is an important part of the Assaulting role, and as such they should have the best regeneration when compared to their other racial suits.

I can't really argue with this. As you pointed out, whilst the assault does have more hp than the scout the difference is minimal when it tries to compete with the regen.

I do think Caldari are the main problem though, since Caldari scouts benefit so much from the high regen as well as having the best regen. The other scouts are much less of an issue following the Gallente scout nerf in alpha and the upcoming amarr assault buff in bravo (if you compare like races).

So the issue really is that Caldari scout's high regen is an assault stat that pushes the balance too far in their favour.

How about this for a balance fix then:

Give Cal and Min scout and assault suits a regen of 30hp/s and give Gal and Amarr scout and assault suits a regen of 20hp/s.

A small change like this I believe is all we need to restore balance. Maybe cpu/pg levels would need a slight tweak too as I have stated before, to overcome the fitting freedom that suits with multiple equipment enjoy if they skimp on equipment.

edit: forgot about shield delay, normalise that too.

I would disagree.

Regeneration is important to scouts and light frames, who should be rather running on low health high regeneration as tool of defense. Thus they should have the best regen.

A heavy should be about High HP tank, as tool of survival but at a cost have little regeneration ability.

An Assault suit needs to be the best balance of the two. An assault suit should be resilient and capable of regeneration.

The current problem is that scouts can tank all they want and still have high regen while Assaults are hindered by comparison when they tank. The fix to this is to rework armor + shields so that it would be unfavorable to run tank on scouts, regen on heavies, and purity on assaults.

Assaults should be about balanced tank and balanced regen and hypothetically fits should contain the two types of modules regen and tank at various proportions based on racial.

Why is regen important to scouts. I thought the role of a scout was to 1) provide squad Intel and 2) assassinate high priory or lone wolf targets. Neither of these agendas require the scout to regen. The scout should have lower hp and should avoid taking fire. If the scout wants great regen they should be forced to sacrifice tank to do so. Currently they do not.

Scouts have little starting HP. The survival philosophy of scout design was to use a suit with little HP that regenerates quickly making it very suitable for hitting and running. Scouts are about speed and regeneration is speed.
The role of any suit has nothing to do with its defensive mechanisms. The role of the Assault suit is to kill but obviously no design philosophy is recognizable in that category when you look at the suit.

I've said this before, but I'll do so one last time. Give an additional bonus to each racial suit in order to increase it's survivability, and thus it's killing effectiveness.

Gallente:
3~5% Bonus to Armor Repair Modules and Reactive Plates Per Level

Result: Gallente Assaults become an armor buffer tank who get additional eHP and repairs from reactive plates and a lot better repairs from their armor repair modules. Gallente assault becomes viable.

Amarr:
3~5% Bonus to a Armor Plates and Ferroscale Plates Per Level

Result: Amarr assaults become armor eHP tanks, basically becoming a light heavy suit with a smaller hit box. Amarr assault becomes viable

Caldari:
3~5% Bonus to Shield Extender, Recharger and Energizer Modules Per Level

Result: Caldari suits become shield eHP tanks with super fast shield regeneration. Caldari assault becomes viable.

Minmatar:
20% Increase to Damage Modules and 3~5% Increase to Shield Regulator Modules Per Level

Result: Minmatar Assault becomes a hit-and-run shield buffer tank with high DPS and low eHP. Minmatar assault becomes viable.




The Minmatar bonus is tricky because you don't want to make it tanky but you want it to be effective. Giving it a bonus to 20% damage mods brings their damage mods to 10% at level 5 instead of the current 5% at complex tier, thus helping them to make up for their ridiculously low eHP. And the regulator bonus also helps them make up for their low eHP by helping them get their shields back more quickly.

I think the other bonuses speak for themselves.

2% per level Damage buff for Assault Suits, on top of the bonuses they already have, to help define their role as a medium health DPS class.

As a Min Assaulter since 1.4, I still find the suit hard to use, although it amazing.


I can get around 800 EPH with 537 Shields and 270 Armor

My Fit:

Six Kin Combat Rifle
'Spitfire' Six Kin Submachine Gun
M1 Locus
5x Complex Shield Extenders
One Basic Armor Plate
One Basic Reactive
A-45 Active Scanner

The problem is once my shields are gone, and they go very quickly due to no resistances, it takes the full brunt of the 35% Shield Recharge Delay, and my regen takes almost 20 seconds for my shields to come back.

Basically what I suggest is a faster regen for Assaults, but at the same time they could get a bonus to everything they run`. The Other suits are basically hardcore Assault variations. The scout, ultra-fast and stealthy assault. The Sentinel is extremely tanked out for an assault, but very slow. The Commando is a Assault-Heavy breed capable of adapting to myriad battlefield conditions. Each of them get their own bonuses, so the Assault should get over arching but small bonuses to anything they run.

Caldari: -3% Recharge Delay Reduction per level (Max running 5 complex shields takes you down to 20%), and they get plus 10% to Shield Regulators and Energizers. Shield tankers that can actually survive against a Scrambler

Gallente: +2% to Armor Repair Modules and Reactive Plates( Someone else's suggestion). Gallente can constantly rep and keep pushing.

Minmatar: 5% Bonus to Damage Mods and -2% profile and +2% Speed per level. Encourages Matari to Flank.

Amarr: 5% to ferroscale plates and armor plates per level.

This on top of Racial Weapon Bonuses.