MinAssault - Second only to the GalScout in "do everything and more" suit.

Then you using your Gk.0 wrong

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Here you go, my go to gal fit and minmatar fit.

My rep adv gallente fit has 862 ehp and reps at 21.25 per second, sprints 6.84

2 comp reps 1 enh plates, 1 basic plate 2 enh shield extenders

My max tank adv Minmatar fit has 907 ehp reps at 8.25 hp per second, sprints 7.18

3 enh shield extenders, 1 enh rep, 2 enh plates.

Behind by 45 ehp on the tank, but 13 more reps per second than the minmatar. If i switch out the repper for a plate on my gal assault though

1 enh rep, 3 enh plate, 2 enh shields

Gal gets 1010 ehp, reps at 8.75 sprints at 6.5

The only real advatage the minmatar has over the gallente is speed. Which in dust counts for alot. But with 4 low slots to play with at ADV you can make up for some of that speed with a kin cat.

It really depends on how creative you are with the fit. The min is a powerful suit, but so is the gallente in many respects.

IMO, the Gal Assault actually represents what the assault role should be.

I've never even used a GalAss, but I know the basics of fitting it, it's not some enigmatic trade secret:

Highs:
Shield Extenders and Damage Mods w/ a bias towards damage

Weapons
BuAR/TAR/ARR
BrScP/IP/BP

Lows:
Some combination of Reps and Ferroscales or Ferroscales and Reactives

Equipment:
Nanohives/Scanner

It has:

• Enough tank to take some damage
• Good reps to eliminate any significant down time
• Excellent damage dealing potential in its optimal (CQC w/ sparse cover for Gal w/ AR)
• Can still perform outside of its primary circumstances (can kill at range and can kill in dense CQC)
• Not fast, but still mobile

It's an all-around balanced suit, fit to utilize its weapon and damage type, and is good at dealing damage in a variety of situations. The varying racial assault suits should have a similar model, with shifting weight towards different areas. The other assault suits have issues due to breaking this model:

The Minmatar Assault gets ridiculous mobility, while still maintaining decent HP, decent regen, and multiple optimal areas of engagement.

The Amarr can dominate at almost any range, it can deal massive damage, but it is barely more mobile than a Commando or even a Sentinel, has much less HP, and can't regen well.

The Caldari is close to being a differently weighted model of the Gallente, but it gets a mediocre weapon bonus and isn't quite mobile enough for its tanking ability.


The solution:

TTK needs to be higher. Having a larger possible distribution of survivability and killing potential would open up a much needed niche for the Assault class. Currently, the Minmatar dominates because anything under 1000eHP gets wrecked in very little time, so the only solution is to GTFO faster than the other guy. Assaults were made to fill a niche of infantry with the tank to post up, bonuses and slots to deliver high damage, and enough mobility to move on to the next objective. Currently, they can't do that, because the TTK is too low for anything other than a Sentinel to stand and deliver. Instead of moving from post to post, they have to resort to Scout ganking tactics, just with a bit more HP and a bit less mobility, which the Minmatar is the best at.

Saw a scout yesterday with like 600+ armor and i think 150 or more shields with proto shotty, don't know about that armor rep though

Well, hang on. Assaults are by far the most flexible suits in the game. They have the most slots so can be outfitted to the most situations.

They can tank almost as good as a heavy.

Move almost as fast as a scout.

Damp like crazy.

BE AV monsters.

And anything in between. This is, again, simply due to the fact that they have the most module slots.

Just like Logis can farm the most WP (most equipment)

Assaults can do the same with a faster movement and sprint speed.

No, a scout cannot do that.

Scouts, at least half of them, get a role bonus to dampening and have way less slots for it. That's like a sentinel complaining that their heavy weapon fits too well compared to their rail rifle.

The assault is meant to be good at

Simple as that.