DeathwindRising wrote:Breakin Stuff wrote:DRT 99 wrote:tbh the damage bonus isnt balanced and i'd be glad to see it go.
The damage bonus doesn't matter nearly as much as anyone thinks. The reload bonuses with support weapons and AV weapons are what give commandos their real punch.
A commando has a 5% advantage over their racial assault for max DPS output.
at what cost? who honestly runs all damage mods on the assault suits other than the armor tankers?
commandos may only have a small advantage in DPS but they have way more eHP while doing it.
No they don't.
Not unless they bricktank.
And they have less HP than sentinels. And they lack the sentinel resists.
And they move slower than assaults and they're easier to hit.
And they can't throw a core locus nade at you.
Right now the commandos and assault suits are neck and neck in efficiency on the battlefield. One seems as effective as the other. Except the calmando. That one's shield stats suck.
Rattati looks like he may be applying the kinetic (railgun -10/+10) to swarms, and thusly removing that from the minmando. This will result in a slightly less obnoxious swarm launcher.
Realistically if you gave assaults two light weapons instead of light/sidearm the assault and commando would still be equally efficient. The sidearms being effective killing weapons mean that an assault isn't hamstrung by running out of primary ammo.
With rattati talking about buffing the gallente and caldari assault light weapon bonuses things are evening out pretty well overall.
The amarr commando no longer is the bad joke it used to be. The minmando will probably lose its AV king title.
the galmando is actually dangerous as more than an incidental threat now.
And the caldari is still bottom rung for the same reason calassaults are: shield stats.
So tell me... how does the comando bonus break the game? 5% damage per shot average (because the fitting meta of commandos is almost identical to assaults now) isn't going to beat a caldari with a rail recoil bonus, the amarr heat bonus, the min magazine bonus or the gallente if they get a decent damage application bonus.
You saying that a thing is bad when your statement flies in the face of all evidence to the contrary is very interesting.
But I'm game.
Explain to me how the commando damage bonus is unfair. If you can convince me legitimately, you might have a chance of pushing your argument past rattati. Just remember to include testable evidence so we can prove or disprove your thesis.