What would benefit rail tech weapons on a caldari assault bonus without it becoming OP? The old sharpshooter bonus would be nice, but it would cause rage among the nooblets. What do you think it should be? I don't think a copy and paste of the commando bonus is really worth it...

What would benefit rail tech weapons on a caldari assault bonus without it becoming OP? The old sharpshooter bonus would be nice, but it would cause rage among the nooblets. What do you think it should be? I don't think a copy and paste of the commando bonus is really worth it...

I'm still swaying towards their previous shield mod efficency bonus, maybe 3 - 4% per level instead of 2? I mean there aren't too many options for them without making them too "OP". Rail rifle ROF increase would knock its dps up a fair amount, range increase would only cause more rail rifle QQ, and reload speed is worthless for that suit really.

I'm still swaying towards their previous shield mod efficency bonus, maybe 3 - 4% per level instead of 2? I mean there aren't too many options for them without making them too "OP". Rail rifle ROF increase would knock its dps up a fair amount, range increase would only cause more rail rifle QQ, and reload speed is worthless for that suit really.

I'm still swaying towards their previous shield mod efficency bonus, maybe 3 - 4% per level instead of 2? I mean there aren't too many options for them without making them too "OP". Rail rifle ROF increase would knock its dps up a fair amount, range increase would only cause more rail rifle QQ, and reload speed is worthless for that suit really.

I don't really like bonuses to racial weapons because what if you don't like that particular weapon... it limits you

Honestly I think that shuld be a third bonus so it's:
Role bonus
Weapon bonus
Type of tank bonus

In this case: Amarr bonus = 3-5% more armor per level, Caldari bonus = 3-5% more shield per level, minmatar bonus = 3-5% to shield recharge rate per level, and Gallente bonus = bonus to armor repair rate per level.

EDIT: I don't think a bonus to RoF would be...a Caldari bonus...it would be good for the Gallente though.

How about adding more spool to the rail weapons and having the bonus decreasing said spool time?

How about adding more spool to the rail weapons and having the bonus decreasing said spool time?

How about adding more spool to the rail weapons and having the bonus decreasing said spool time?

I'm a caldari assault (currently skilling up into one) and I only have one fit with the rail rifle. It's just a garbage weapon unless you use it for harassing people at a range.

I'm a caldari assault (currently skilling up into one) and I only have one fit with the rail rifle. It's just a garbage weapon unless you use it for harassing people at a range.

Reload speed in the case of Caldari Assault is just....lame. However it needs to follow the "Weapon Support" theme that the other 3 have, so increasing DPS or defenses isn't gonna fly. Couple thoughts to kick around

~Reduced Charge & Lock Time for Caldari Weapons
~Reduced Recoil for Caldari Weapons

Reduced recoil would make the most sense, and it would definitely help the magsec out a bunch (since the bonus applies to both light and sidearm weapons). Recoil all the way, it shouldn't be anything else.

Commandos already have reload speed...don't understand why Caldari assault is also to reload.

Reduced recoil would make the most sense, and it would definitely help the magsec out a bunch (since the bonus applies to both light and sidearm weapons). Recoil all the way, it shouldn't be anything else.

Commandos already have reload speed...don't understand why Caldari assault is also to reload.

I'd rather us not make Caldari Assaults with RR the next FOTM. Superior at range and in CQC, this is why we can never have a balanced game that people don't consider these things.

Commandos should be the go-to for damage, Assaults should be the go to for improved weapon performance. With the coming HP improvements to assaults in Charlie we don't really need shield mod efficacy.... so that leaves us with RoF, Range, Kick or extended magazine size.

RoF - No, just no. This is flat out a DPS inflating number and it completely messes with balance. Amarr assault bonus doesn't affect dps (except on laser, where damage is backended), just number of shots down range, Gal assault bonus (which I quite like) improves theoretical dps at range but also allows you to do stuff like hipfire tac ars, min bonus once again only affects shots down range.

Range - This is also a bad option, as it throws away the range standardizations we just received. It would either need to be so small that it doesn't matter, or it's way too powerful of a bonus, even a 2% range bonus per level adds almost another 10m of base range to rail.

Extended magazines - This is okay, but I don't feel it would really have that much of an impact on the railrifle.

Kick - This is what I feel would be the best option, mitigating a lot of the jump that rail weapons have while aimed down sight and actually greatly improving their performance when doing stuff like hip-firing.

Spool-time - Honestly would probably have to small of an impact to matter unless the bonus was something insane.

Damage - Puts the cal assault in direct competition with cal commando for bonus value. Commandos should be the go to for damage and versatility, Assault should be the suit you choose when you go "I want this weapon to perform be the best it ever possibly could outside of damage".

What Caldari weapon locks? Inb4 the swarm launcher, then why does my calmmando not get a bonus to swarms? Because it isn't hybrid rail? Well why don't minmmandos get bonus to remote explosives and grenades if it's solely based on damage type? ****'s ********.

Charge make a .2 second charge a .18 charge. It's useless, and reducing recoil on rail rifles would break them and make them OP. There isn't anything that can really be done with rail tech that won't break the weapons. They just need to stop it with these weapon specific buffs to assaults.

That's why they gave us reload, because even though that's also pretty garbage nothing can be done nominally to rail weapons that won't make them OP. You reduce the kick and it will melt targets it has nearly twice the damage of the combat rifle with far more range. Its real disadvantage at the moment is that the kick + spool up makes hipfire luck based. If you reduce the kick it will become absurd and lead to a nerf in delta that was wasted time they could of spent on other things.

The stubbornness of using disproportionate suits and bonuses will just keep perpetuating the buff/ner cycles.

There are still superior CQC guns over the rail rifle, and the amarr assault is far more likely to become to next FOTM if anything with that kind of EHP, scrambler rifle, and damage mod stacking. They'll see to it that caldari assaults burn lol.

What Caldari weapon locks? Inb4 the swarm launcher, then why does my calmmando not get a bonus to swarms? Because it isn't hybrid rail? Well why don't minmmandos get bonus to remote explosives and grenades if it's solely based on damage type? ****'s ********.

Charge make a .2 second charge a .18 charge. It's useless, and reducing recoil on rail rifles would break them and make them OP. There isn't anything that can really be done with rail tech that won't break the weapons. They just need to stop it with these weapon specific buffs to assaults.

That's why they gave us reload, because even though that's also pretty garbage nothing can be done nominally to rail weapons that won't make them OP. You reduce the kick and it will melt targets it has nearly twice the damage of the combat rifle with far more range. Its real disadvantage at the moment is that the kick + spool up makes hipfire luck based. If you reduce the kick it will become absurd and lead to a nerf in delta that was wasted time they could of spent on other things.

The stubbornness of using disproportionate suits and bonuses will just keep perpetuating the buff/ner cycles.