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.

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.

Ehhh. That has more to do with how modules are balanced more than anything.

If damage mods were low slot people would be crying that caldari have an unfair advantage.

If we had a low slot weapon upgrade to match the high we might see actual progress.

So were you going to tell me something I was unaware of?

Or do you just have a burning need to prove me wrong about something?

The 10% commando damage bonus has nothing to do with your post. Nor does the forum topic.

Further, people who only stack reps and plates tend to have a bad time of it. Especially since armor meta is ferroscales over plates.

I've vomited shield buff solutions enough, they will get fixed or they won't. At this point I'm not interested in rehashing old ground I have already tread.

If they put a weapon mod that increases weapon viability on shield suits your argument falls apart because then shields too will be able to stack damage and HP.

But thanks for trying to lecture me. I'm sure that I might have potentially learned something.

Seriously ive been chiming in on shields for months. Don't get your panties in a twist with me about them.

I'm really starting to wonder what the difference between Caldari Commandos and Caldari Assaults is going to be if Commandos get a PG/CPU reduction on weaponry.

Both would get a fitting reduction
Both would get a reload speed bonus

Assault gets a grenade and slightly more mobility
Commando gets a built in damage mod and slightly more EHP

As I said, we need to further differentiate these two classes and come up with legitimately different roles than trying to make them more similar. At this point it's like Espresso and Cappuccino. It's still freaggin coffee, people. They're both offensive roles with - increasingly - minor differences. If the Commandos are getting a fitting reduction to fit some new design spectrum involving Racial Dropsuit + Racial Weapon = Profit, that's fine, but the expense is going to leave players wondering what they're geared for. I'd imagine a new player will just look at them and figure them to just have different models.

They need distinction, rather than overlap.

I'm also not a fan of the rof mods or the slot switches. This update turned my suits on their heads enough already. All I need is a little cpu/pg on my commandos to use this extra mod slot.

I don't see the proposal as a shield buff so much as a way of "hardcoding" armor tank --> CQC, shield tank --> range into the mechanics of the game.

When I shield tank I tend to hide so this wouldn't really bother me, but I wonder how the Caldari sentinel would fair in this environment. Seems like a waste to make it even more inferior in CQC.

I don't think it works like that. It doesn't constantly rep through hmg damage, I think it only reps the 1st shot. See I have all cal suits and when I take down a caldaris shields I just pluck a little shield so he has to wait for the recharge delay again. I do the same to gunlogis and pythons also.