When people were honored to have a heavy in their squad. When Amarr was the only one, and it took real dedication to become fully skilled.

You people are blaming us for something that isn't our fault. It was the 1.8 dropsuit respec, the 2 million clone challenge, and the other events that boosted everyone's SP so high that we could essentially pick whatever we wanted.

That's why there are a bunch of skill-less heavies running around. That is your "heavy spam."

We do NOT have an easy time of mindlessly slaughtering everything in our paths. We get slaughtered by remotes, scouts, other heavies, rifles from a distance, multiple enemies purposely hunting us down, turning on us and shooting as soon as we pop out of cover.

You people are really starting to be insulting, and rude about your heavy QQ. We are not hiding behind our crutch. We are not playing Dust on easy mode. We are going out there, and we are being absolutely obliterated just like everyone else on the battlefield.

We put our asses on the line for YOU, in places that YOU'RE NOT WILLING TO GO, placing ourselves in mortal danger in front of crowds of enemy infantry to keep them away from YOUR OBJECTIVES. We are the #1 hard counter to enemy scouts that YOU WOULD GET OVERWHELMED BY IF IT WASN'T FOR US.

I have sat in Planetary Conquest battles and constantly taken abuse from the enemy, following the orders of my Field Commanders. I have literally sat there and felt like a helpless ragdoll while I spawned in and got orbitaled, spawned in and got pinned down by rifles on top of buildings, spawned in and sacrificed myself to kill 2 or 3 enemies with me.

WE TAKE THE ABUSE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO. Stop making excuses and realize that you are hateful, and spiteful and just want take what's ours away from us because for some idiotic reason, YOU think it should be completely okay to waltz right into a crowd of heavies instead of oh, I don't know?

Picking them off one by one with a Rail Rifle or Combat Rifle?
Melting them all at once with a Laser Rifle?
Blowing them all to Hell with Remotes?
Hunting them down and shooting them in the backs with a Shotty instead of expecting to be able to walk right in front of and wave "hello! I'm a scrub who thinks you shouldn't be instamelting me right now!"

Everything kills heavies, and does it well. Every single weapon in this game. Even the Assault Rifle isn't the poster boy for weakness anymore. Stop blaming us for your inability to kill us with the multitude of ways you could easily pick every one of us off one by one. Because it happens to me every time I turn on Dust.

We are there to make the difference on the battlefield. Even to help you kill the hostile heavies. Respect us and stop demanding unwarranted, illogical nerfs that will solve nothing.

I am nowhere near the only one who thinks that heavies are balanced right now. Almost everyone I talk to in-game agrees with me. Only on the forums do I find such opposition and it's not right.

We sit there and endure the pain right up until the last drop of our HP to keep the enemy off your objectives.