I am very pleased to say that Hotfix Charlie has finally brought the assaults back to a competitive level. The ehp is now high enough that even standard assault suits can still have a great advantage over scouts and logistics.

I am currently skilled into 3 assault suits...Amarr, Minmatar, and Caldari

Of the 3, I feel that none of them have a huge advantage over the other, with each suit having its own specialty and playstyle. With the higher slot counts I went for more diversity rather than raw HP.

For instance, my Amarr uses a complex precision enhancer and a complex profile dampener, while still maintaining 800 armor and 10 armor repair. On my Minmatar I use a damage mod and an energizer, while saving one of the lows for a sprint mod.

That said, diversity is everything. Before Charlie I only had one assault fitting per suit that was "the best", and now I have different strategies based on the types of enemies I'm facing. There's just so many ways to fit an assault now that I end up trying out a new way to play the suit every time I log in...this last one was a minmatar assault hack fit: 3 extenders, 2 codebreakers, and a reactive plate with uplinks (considering swapping the reactive for a profile damp).
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I will be making a quick fitting update video again for Charlie, but I'm still not even close to being finished trying out the new possibilities for suits.

I was never really much of an assault player, but these suits are finally much more enjoyable to use.

CR because people have armor tanks and cr is +20% to armor dmg.. against a good shield tank they suck harder then hilton on that sex video

Let's talk about that Gal assault shall we? It's supposed to be the CQC assault fit right? Why are the weapons so inadequate? Would you rush a point with a plasma cannon and an ion pistol for a sidearm? Also the different variations of the AR need to be adjusted separately instead of all together. The shotguns hit detection is rough still?! All to often do I find myself resorting to using other racial weapons on the suit which kills my bonus potential. Could we take another look for good measure CCP rattati?

all that is needed to fix this problem is a rate of fire cap on the Scr and burst combat rifle that does not go fair over what can be done by a human.

Rattati, I seriously recommend triple reactives, one rep and a complex kin cat.

Try it out, it's my all around awesome assault that thrives in any map.
I have more specialized fits for different maps, but this works everywhere.