I do not expect them to rep as much to keep me alive during the fight like they can in Eve but even between fights they seem almost worthless to me.

4 complex armour reps on a proto assault suit is actually quite powerful

armor rep RR and self reps are never on the same lv with shields this is becuz armor has more rest then sheilds
from playing eve for sometime now i can tell you the self rep is fine and were it should be

4 complex armour reps on a proto assault suit is actually quite powerful

What I find strange is that a proto heavy suit still only has 2 lower slots

Saying that it takes 4 armor reps to do it kinda proves my point IMO.

Saying that it takes 4 armor reps to do it kinda proves my point IMO.

yeah and the complex one rep only 5 per second which is insignificant compared to the 1000+ hp armor on heavies

You have to take into account if you're buffing the armor reps that you should not make four armor reps on a assault suit overpowered. Buffing them by simply increasing the hp/s would make those four on the assault suit overpowered in my opinion.

It's unfortunate that it's all down to armor whether you survive or not. However, I've noticed the heavy suits have a lot more mid slots than low slots. So, I think that your main line of defense will be buffer shield tank, with shield regen mods. If you take armor damage, well, one armor repairer will get you back up (eventually). The heavy suits are not armor tankers.

I hope that gallente will get a heavy suit varient, those will be armor tankers you can bet your life on it.

As a quick edit, I have found out that if you switch out suits via a resupply depot, it heals you all the way back up. So, switch out to assault at the resupply depot, and switch back to your heavy.

As a second edit I just want to note that I use an Advanced Logistics suit as my primary, with two plates, one armor repper. the repper seems to do pretty good, even with roughly 300 armor HP. Of course, I do also have a repair nanohive as well as the remote repair gun so I'm not to concerned about it any longer. The militia suit I had no armor plates and the armor repair module, it worked well and would heal me up between engagements.

I think it's just the heavy is meant to work with logistics support.

Make fitting reqs to where ya can not use 4 at same time but make them useful IMO.

They pretty much do this already in the form of stacking penalties. Each consecutive mod of the same type becomes less effective, off the top of my head the numbers go something like this


1- 100%
2-87%
3-50%

4-28%



so more than 2 is kind of questionable in terms of effectiveness, and 4 is just a waste of a slot really.

Now that being said, i agree the dropsuit reps are a bit underpowered atm, especially for a heavy who's only option is to armor tank. The problem is, they way they work now, if you increas the armor/s too much then it becomes OP on the higher shield/shield recharge assault and scout suits. My personal solution would be to make the rep's % based. so instead of 5 points of armor per second you could do like 2%/s. In this way it would be balanced in that all classes would rep to 100% in the same amount of time, and it would give people who want to armor tank a viable way to recover HP after a tough battle. As it stands now, as a heavy if i wan't to rep back any meaningful amount of armor i gotta spend 2-3 min hiding out. Meanwhile shield tanking Assault and Scout suits can disengage combat and rep shields in a matter of seconds.

When you're down to taking armour damage, you need to take cover (unless you're full armour tanked with 4 reps on a Proto Assault, as mentioned.

Or you need a repair tool. I haven't tested it myself, but a few people have said that you can repair yourself with them, so if that's legit, pick one up.

When you're down to taking armour damage, you need to take cover (unless you're full armour tanked with 4 reps on a Proto Assault, as mentioned.

Or you need a repair tool. I haven't tested it myself, but a few people have said that you can repair yourself with them, so if that's legit, pick one up.

I haven't played enough as a Heavy... I forgot you guys don't get equipment slots.

Yeah, being unable to effectively armour tank as the class that's built for it would kind of suck.

I'll agree on this.

Or maybe when we start seeing special gear for each suit (NOT exclusive, but with huge PG/CPU requirements and huge bonuses to equipping on the intended suit type), there will be some Heavy Armour Repairers that are difficult to equip on anything but a Heavy. That way, the current Reppers are fine because they're balanced for the lighter suits, but if you want more, there's an option for you.

the repair tool can, supposedly, heal you. You just hold the fire button without targeting anybody and that's how it works. I haven't gotten to try it yet.