You just need to invest more into all those PG and CPU skills.

This is where fitting optimization comes in I think

Remember after proficiency? there is a skill that reduces pg consumed by the weapon.

The damage bonus doesn't matter nearly as much as anyone thinks. The reload bonuses with support weapons and A weapons are what give commandos their real punch.

A commando has a 5% advantage over their racial assault for max DPS output.

You sure?
I have my Caldari Commando fitted -extremely- well with KinCats and rechargers/regulators and damage mods.
And I have proto weapons on my ADV Caldari Commando.

I say you just want a bigger buff since apparently 1 slot wasn't enough.

You talking to me or the guy I was redponding to?

Every time rattati says fitting bonuses he has yet to replace a combat bonus.

Sentinel heavy weapon bonus was added to the suit bonuses.

Assault light weapon/nade fitting was added in addition to bonusing.

I'm failing to see why anyone would expect him to break the trend with commandos.

If you haven't figured out that rattati has a predictable balance methodology that accepts input from the outside for consideration/backup plan then there's really no hope for you.

The magic 8 ball that the previous team consulted for wisdom was fired for incompetence.

I work nights and happen to be on break right now. It's either troll the forums or watch the viagra commercials that play at this time of night.

Please address near invincible tanks first. This will be a huge nerf to swarms, especially if you move the bonus over to calmandos as previously stated.

I'm not a fan of this idea.
It would make the caldari commando worse off when sniping. Where's as if you put 5 damage mods on a ammar/gal assault (in the low slot) you might get a better damage rating

And I'm just sitting here with two damage mods a shield rrecharger X2 complex reactive and proto rr and swarms like what are you talking about? Calmando has always been the best mando though. Starting to think these ppl saying they have max skills actually don't. Get those optimizations ppl. Amarr command is a little harder to fit, but big fit it out well enough, over 20 reps a second two dmg mods and scr and lr. Glad to bear they're getting a buff to fit it better though.

depends. shield damage threshold is really interesting mechanic to play with.

set it high enough, and you get situations where the cal sent could continue shield regen while taking damage, as long as the damage per shot isnt higher than the threshold.

for example if you set the value to 20, the cal sent could regen while taking hmg fire, but if he get hit with an AR from 20m away his shields stop recharging, because AR damage per shot is higher than 20.

if that same AR fire from 70m though, its damage per shot would like fall under 20m due to being outside its optimal and effective range. meaning the cal sent could regen its shield while taking fire the AR as well.

if weapons shoot faster they can still cause damage faster than the cal can regen its shields. so you'd still eat through them similar to how you can still kill a sentinel being repaired by logis if if can keep you damage on him long enough.

no not currently. the threshold value is set to 6. hmg damage per shot is alot higher than 6.

try this:

shoot a caldari suit with a smg from 70m to 100m

watch as his shields bounce back up as he takes damage.

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it works because it happened to me while i was sniping. some noob shot me with his smg fromm 100m out.as i took damage, my shields would just regen back up. it gave me enough time to line up a headshot while sitting out in the open lol

it works with hmgs too depending on how far away from them you are when they shoot you

It's like the Assault Drop Ship's all over again.

Tend to agree to this.
Damage bonus had it's place when the commandos were otherwise so weak and gimped (minimal slots, blind, slow, seen by everyone) so until these days it has been okay.

This will probably get shot down as I see a few problems with this, but what if we added a certain amount of "Medium slots" to dropsuits and moved all ddamage/ROF mods to it. That way everyone would have access to their choice of damage mods. Could also add in any new mods to "Medium slots" as well to give it more choices. I figure highs and lows could be used for tanking, mediums could be used for certain auxiliary functions. I don't know... like I said, this will probably get shot down as even I see a bunch of problems with this.

That could be problematic with sniper rifles where you could stack tripple damage mods with tripple rate of fire mods. That could make the sniper rifle insanely OP where the sniper could get 3 shots off before you realise that you have beeing hit.

no, it will destroy my calmandos sniping abilities.

How do you think shield fit's feel? This isn't the shield suit I skilled into back in CB, yes, back then in CB caldari was OP, but now, it'd actually be balanced to have what we had, shield wise, back in CB.

But what do I know? I'm just a 200 pound Caldari in the room...