While we're at it ... here are some specific suggestions:

1,2,3) Add meaningful mobility penalties to armor plates. Thinking penalties to movement, backpedal, strafe, etc. Want to be a fantastic fortress? Move like a damn fortress.

4) Make it great down range or great in CQC. Being great at both is a 'bit too much (see old Rail Rifle). If to be great down range, then hipfire should be erratic. If to be great in CQC, then damage at range should be reduced.

5) Add 1/4 second spool-up time. cap rotation speed, or ask the heavies for how to fix (then ignore the ones who say "I deserves a chance to respond"). When the fantastic fortress of insta-death is flanked, there should be dire consequences. Just like 800HP Scouts shouldn't be a thing, insta-spin-and-win Heavies shouldn't be a thing.

@ True Adamance
Your counterpoints would be more convincing if racial tank were in balance. At the moment shield and armor are far from one another's equal. Armor modules afford their users substantially greater TTK benefit per slot than shield modules. And anti-shield weaponry is vastly more effective at stripping shields than anti-armor weaponry is at stripping armor. Armor's supposed drawback -- mobility -- pays too little penalty practice. Your 1200HP Assault unit spins and parries as fast the next, and there is no unit who cannot hitch a ride. Why run?

@ Zindorak
There is no unit in play more broken than the HMG Sentinel, and there is no flavor of Sentinel more reliably spammed in PC than the Amarr. As for Amarr Assault, our friends at Nyain San have never favored balanced suits or guns. In fact, if there's an overt balance problem to be found, they are typically among the first to find it, and spam it, which they do relentlessly until it said problem is fixed. Were you aware that they no longer spammed Scouts?

@ DDx77
Quite perceptive, good sir! To further distill the feedback, one might say my beef is limited to (1) Armor Tank paying too great a benefit at too little drawback and (2) a couple broken weapons, namely the HMG and Breach Assault Rifle.

No you cannot. Armor tanking is far superior currently because of the very low movement penalties and much larger amounts of hp. If you disagree, show me two fits. Regardless, I think plates are the problem, not the amarr assault.

Amarr assault is not OP, it's Scrambler Rifles that are. Lasers are also kind of OP but can be countered by moving in close, and take a bit more concentration to use than Scramblers (With a Scrambler you just have to try to avoid overheating, with a Laser you have to get as close to overheating as possible before you stop firing).
The amount of damage a Scrambler can do with a charged shot is insane, even half charge it gains way too much damage.


Scrambler Rifle is one of the most popular weapons right now, you play with your eyes closed?

We need not play the guessing game, gentlemen! The data we need is here:
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Let's have a look at those Light Weapons ...
Mr Breach! Nothing else quite compares.
That nasty ScR? It isn't even on the map!

But OP contends that AM Assault is OP.
If it isn't his ScR, could it be his King HP!?

Let's have a look at Low Slot Modules ...
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