Since heavies suck against missile turrets or railguns unless they have the high ground here is a possible solution other than buffing swarms to a ridiculous damage output

This idea is inspired by the immortals in starcraft 2. An immortal has normal shielding in most situations but when they get hit with something that has a high enough shield output (like a siege tank) it instantly builds large amounts of resistance against the damage taken. Adding this effect to shields or armor would be a good way for a heavy to compensate for low maneuverability when taking on a tank or when hit with an RE. It also keeps infantry battles with heavies the same so there will be no unfair advantage in infantry battles.

Also may promote more use in blasters for anti infantry since missiles wont be as effective against this module but blasters should be able to take it out with the same ease as before.

Not sure if this has already been mentioned or exists in EVE (discuss)

I don't understand the concept ... you want the heavy as an armor tanked class to take less damage from anything that has a higher armor value than itself !? How will this help against a shield tanked HAV ? and if you shield tank your heavy, you want it to take less damage from a shield tanked HAV ... same goes for the Surya !

Also the Swarm is not a heavy weapon, it's a light weapon so I don't understand the relation between that and your suggestion ... the forge gun maybe I could be close to empathising but probably not as this goes against everything CCP is trying to achieve.

And how would any of this make a difference between missiles and blasters on a HAV ? Surely it wouldn't matter what kind of turrets are fitted ... so long as the tank was the same as the heavies he would receive less damage.

It's not the fans that demand everything to fit in with Eve lore, it's CCP that have a whole universe of ways and mechanics and science that they want to maintain as much as possible and tweak as little as possible to get DUST to release.

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I would just like to say I like this idea, but make is a module. Furthermore, instead of a flat resistance buff, why not make it inverse to their current speed? That way heavies can hold ground but don't overshadow the assaults for taking it.

Thanks for taking the time to address each of my points ... I understand a lot better what you're trying to achieve now.

Before my opinion I'm not sure what module in Eve you're talking about ... we have regular damage resists but I'm not aware of anything that only applies resists when damage above a threshold is received ... any clarification on which module you mean.

My Opinion :
As a dedicated Assault Swarm user, even in cqc battles as my SMG skills are better than my AR, I'm not a big fan of dropping Swarm damage, though I do think they shouldn't be so readily available. Even now since the hotfix I can hit a Sagaris with proto swarm and double damage mods and it barely scratches the paint. I've invested a lot of sp to make a workable AV fit that can survive against infantry and deal heafty damage to vehicles, I don't believe I should be able to solo kill a good advanced HAV with a single prototype AV weapon but I should be able to get it on the move which I generally can.

(Edited : When I say swarms shouldn't be readily available, I mean no militia Swarms ... there's no militia forge so why have other militia AV weapons, AV is a specialist role.)

I do agree the heavy class needs some work but I'm not sure this is the right way to go about it ... my reason being ... I can solo most heavies no matter what weapon they are carrying simply by staffing through his tracers of the HMG or the same tactic to avoid his audible forge charge just as it's about to discharge. I have however met one good heavy user by the name of Khemlar Maktar who can destroy me every time usually before I've even switched to SMG and fired a shot or turned to face him. I put this down to a most not 100% specialising into the heavy class and as such they shouldn't be good at it, a heavy user shouldn't have assault rifle skills or swarm launchers, these are both light weapons, not heavy and should be trained after his heavy weapons.

I think heavies should just get their e train hit points back that they used to have if you want them to have a bit more survivability but also the damage resist modules available to vehicles could be made available to dropsuits but as I've said ... these are across the board resists, they have no concept of the level of damage received.

I say two ideas I liked as well -

A deployable shield

and (even better)

an AV mass driver. The mass driver would be able to lob shells over obstacles that the tanks would be unable to return direct fire through. Make for some good fights.

True artillery on a LAV is a REALLY nice idea. I LOVE IT!!! the LAV alone is kind of **** except for speedy initial point capture early game, but if it had the capability of fitting a powerful (but difficult to aim/use) artillery weapon, it could become a very valuable asset in the right kind of map. It could be used for things like hiding over a ridge, and bombarding a capture point so that it can't be taken while a couple of escorts guard the ridge itself to make sure no one comes over it to attack the LAV.

It was meant to be a module, low slot now that I think about it. Not sure if it should be only lomited to heavies or not tho. Also not sure if it should allow stacking either.

I like the idea of it being a module, and I also like the idea that anyone can fit it, with the bigger suits getting a better bonus from it. It should definitely be limited to one per suit, though, if it's getting 50-80% resist (imagine a logi stacking 4, even if they get a smaller effect).

What I don't like is the damage threshold being the only trigger, because it would then apply to grenades and sniper headshots and other non-vehicle related things if this is supposed to only be to boost survivability as an AV role.

Since heavies suck against missile turrets or railguns unless they have the high ground here is a possible solution other than buffing swarms to a ridiculous damage output

This idea is inspired by the immortals in starcraft 2. An immortal has normal shielding in most situations but when they get hit with something that has a high enough damage output (like a siege tank) it instantly builds large amounts of resistance against the damage taken. Adding this effect in a module to effect shields or armor would be a good way for a heavy to compensate for low maneuverability when taking on a tank or when hit with an RE. It also keeps infantry battles with heavies the same so there will be no unfair advantage in infantry battles.

Also may promote more use in blasters for anti infantry since missiles wont be as effective against this module but blasters should be able to take it out with the same ease as before.

Not sure if this has already been mentioned or exists in EVE (discuss)

Uh, i crush turrets installations with my heavy FG every map. Wich is why i always root for a massive boost to those turrets HP. Hello, those MASSIVE canon can't stand more shots than a CRU ?