I mean maybe it says more about how good the Assault HMG is but still

I saw him, he scratched my shields a bit while I depleted his with my scrambler pistol. I ducked behind cover, pulled out the HMG... it didn't even get his armor 3/4 of the way down before I died.

They have also stared me down point blank with them but again that probably speaks more to the quality of the Assault HMG

However I still dont think a heavy weapon should be doing less damage, especially when it's armor based damage and the Assault Rifle is hybrid shield damage

Well armor's just extremely OP.... There's just nothing that can really beat it, a logi, a gal aslt and a wiyrkomi triage hive, a dude with a breach AR couldn't even down me, so I soaked up the damage, fact is, armor itself is too powerful, that's why you can't kill any of these Gallente player's, too much can affect their recovery status' positively, so either the HP need's to be cut back on armor, which would be preferred, or Anti armor weapon's efficiency need's to go up, so that we CAN kill these GAL BAR individual's (plus others).

Too much HP, too much power, not enough equivalence exchange (glass cannon fitting).