Congratulations CCP Rattiti, you have accomplished the dubious distinction of devolving to the old style of patches with merely two under your belt. Actually, I guess you did it in one. Although alpha included multiple fixes for the same thing. No sense in following what you posted, right? Small changes, see the effects and continue on.

Nope. You nerfed the rail gun damage and the damage mods. Four rounds to pop a rail gun turret.

As for armor, the best fit is not triple damage mods. Which I didn't used to run.

Time to play a real game, no need to get kicked around in the dust.

While true you may not think you don't NEED a repper, but a repper does play a very large part into damage mitigation. And what happens when you come into a situation where a static variable, IE plates coupled with a hardener. Either you outlast your opponent by the sheer amount of HP or you fall and crumble, gambling on speed or that you come against a lesser tanker.

Using a rep gives you valuable damage mitigation, IN BATTLE, and is far superior in my eyes when it comes to maddies. A repper maddie can use cover, terrain, ect, to rep back lost HP where any tanker that chooses not to use one is what I would call "A one hit wonder". Tough, I'll give them that, but unable to stand up to repeated engagement.

My mantra before 1.6 hit was always about this damage mitigation, a combination of your healing power, your tank (HP), and resistances. Stacking one or the other doesn't make for a very versatile, or in my opinion, strong tank.