Is the Assault Rifle mediocre or is your ability to use with the AR mediocre?

Against Shields nothing but the Scrambler Rifle (and the weapons listed in my previous post) kills a target faster than the AR in CQC, the only time it's surpassed is when fighting Armor bricks, which the AR is supposed to be weak against anyways.

Assault Suit is already the best suit. Why buff best suit?

Idea:
Remove 1 slot from Assaults and give it to Commandos. Then rework bonuses. Also, swap Logi base speeds with Assault base speeds.

While we are on the Topic of Gallente Assaults I'd think it a good idea to give the Gallente more Sprint Speed and Stamina regeneration but at the cost of total Stamina.

Also as the bonus goes, I'd have an Optimal Range decrease reload time. Optimal Range however may throw the Breach AR into OP territory.

I don't play gallente....anything, so I'm just going off what the crowd says but I wouldn't mind it getting a bonus increasing it's optimal to 60.

I personally really love the current gal assaults bonus, it gives me such tight hipfire that I can use at ranges where other suits would need to to aim down sights therefore allowing me to maintain the hipfire strafe - paired with 25 or 32HP/s for when the enemy misses it's great.

But of course the gal assault is still dominated by the real CQC kings i.e the HMG and CR; their hard counter.

You literally have to be between 40m and 55m to tango with a decent heavy in a gal assault.

The AR is outperformed by the ARR and the ACR/CR at its supposed king range.
Especially if you run a MinAss with an ACR, which is easy mode and you own everything with little effort.
A damage boost multiplier on the AR in its range won't make it OP and will finally make it the CQC king it has been said to be.

The suits can't have the same bonus though. Charge time for as a bonus for Cal is lol worthy. These other bonuses are the only ones that make sense for Gal.

pretty simple and I'm sure it's mentioned quite a bit, but I think adding some additional bonuses would really help the suits out.

Caldari

5 percent per level to extenders
2 percent to regulators per level
3 percent to recharges per level

Or

3 percent per level to extenders
4 percent to regulators per level
3 percent to recharges per level

It really sucks that a Cal assault is better off using a ScR over a RR at this point(though I think that's more cause the ScR is over performing, but that's neither here nor there) but I honestly have no idea how to buff the weapon without making it OP.

Gallente

3 percent to repair mods per level
3 percent to FS plates per level
3 percent to reactive plates per level and or a 1 percent boost to reactive plate repair.

Again, not sure how to buff the AR without making it OP. I think it all comes down to most weapons performing outside their intended roles, but again, that's not for here to discuss.

Edit: Though, DeadlyAztec has a really good solution on how to fix the AR in general.

Actually giving them the same double stacked current bonuses seems like a good idea now that you mentioned it, all they have to do is not specify hybrid rail or hybrid blaster i.e just hybrid.

But if not, a think a bonus that almost elimates the charge time completely wouldbe ideal for the cal assault, but I also like the current reload bonus. Try the militia ARR.

So you think that making the gun better at 15m isn't good?

The AR is suppose to be great at CQC but is just mediocre. This would help make it good at CQC.

Get your ass back on the front page.

Thank you for the bump. I tend to get anxiety when I make a thread goes to more then 1 page and has wayyyyy better ideas then the one i originally posted(only brave enough thanks to Sir Jameson)

The AR should do 2x Damage from 0-5m, 1.5x damage from zero to ten meters, and 1.2x damage from zero to twenty meters.

No, as the other Assaults don't receive bonuses that make them stronger.

So far we have:

CalAssault - 5% Reduction to Kick/Recoil of Hybrid Rails per level
and
GalAssault - 5% Reduction to Reload Speed of Hybrid Blasters per level

How does this sound?

It is really the only thing that makes sense while being in line with the other suits. I'm not fond of a straight damage bonus so that is out. Would you prefer a reload reduction instead?

Lets take note really Quick. The Scrambler Rifles is a Shield based weapon with a 20% paper bonus to shields meant to slay shields. The Assault Rifle is a shield based weapon with a 10% paper bonus to shields, its more user friendly so it doesn't insta kill shields like the Scrambler. Both the Scrambler and Assault rifles Races stack armor. That means the Combat Rifle and Assault Combat Rifle will kill them quicker obviously. The Rail Rifle is meant to be a ranged weapon like the Scrambler so they shouldn't perform well in cqc but that is why they have an assault variant to be able to still do cqc fights if necessary. The COmbat rifle is more for range and assault combat rifle for cqc. Basically people just want their cake and be able to eat it to honestly thats why theres all these change,nerf,buff threads but if you ask me the assaults minus the cal because of reload speed being a commando bonus are balanced just need tweaks on bonus. As follows: Amarr should have the heat build up and thats it the Gal should get a stronger dispersion reduction and thats it the cal should get a reduction to kick and charge up or just one nothing else and the min should keep the ammo increase for the clip size.

CalAssault should be recoil reduction for the RR. That much is certain.

The GalAss bonus... Really, is there an area where the PR doesn't perform well?

I personally really love the current gal assaults bonus, it gives me such tight hipfire that I can use at ranges where other suits would need to to aim down sights therefore allowing me to maintain the hipfire strafe - paired with 25 or 32HP/s for when the enemy misses it's great.

But of course the gal assault is still dominated by the real CQC kings i.e the HMG and CR; their hard counter.

You literally have to be between 40m and 55m to tango with a decent heavy in a gal assault.

CalAssault should be recoil reduction for the RR. That much is certain.

The GalAss bonus... Really, is there an area where the PR doesn't perform well?

ACR hip fire is as tight as a bonused AR in my experience, so it's kind of pointless.