A proto gallente assault has 210 base HP.
With armor plates, Uncle_AWOL managed to push it to 760~ HP not including shields, and even had an extra slot for a repper.
Now, considering both of these suits have the same amount of low slots...

4 low and 1 hi, meanwhile every other suits gets at least 6 slots total plus equipment.

Heavy? 5 total and no equipment.

Muh balance mufugga.

That's nowhere near the 2000 hp a heavy can now obtain. Also, lol @ armor tanking assaults

You relise to get that a heavy would be at lest a 30% movement penalty? You want heavies to simply be slow moving turrets? And that is only proto suits that get 5 slots, meanwhile every other suits gets at least 6 and an equipment slot.

Fair and balanced? Right?

No, Heavy needs more slots, at least 6 like all the others, or more than a 50 point HP bonus.

4 low and 1 hi, meanwhile every other suits gets at least 6 slots total plus equipment.

Heavy? 5 total and no equipment.

Muh balance mufugga.

That's nowhere near the 2000 hp a heavy can now obtain. Also, lol @ armor tanking assaults

Isn't that what they kinda are though? Slow moving high HP death machines, right? You're going to have over 500 shields and well over 1k armor, based on your HP alone and the SS removal on ARs it's going to be extremely difficult to kill a heavy one on one.

Isn't that what they kinda are though? Slow moving high HP death machines, right? You're going to have over 500 shields and well over 1k armor, based on your HP alone and the SS removal on ARs it's going to be extremely difficult to kill a heavy one on one.

FIRSTLY: you did not have to post the ENTIRE patch note to make your point, you only needed to copy and paste the specific heavy related notes and if you were feeling really good, the link to the actual forum post.

SECONDLY: its not as bad as you think it is. If you thought about it you might actually know why. The sharpshooter skill for ALL weapons no longer effects range on rifles. So what does this mean? it means 1.) no more across the map laser snipes, 2.) no more across the map AR snipes 3.) no more across the map SMG snipes 4.) no more across the map..... do you get the point?? No more sniping heavies across the map with anything less then a sniper rifle = A HEAVY BUFF.

Now my heavy sharpshooter skill is zero and I can still do great with an HMG, after may 6th if you get killed "at range" by somebody then its your own fault because 9 times out of 10 the shooter is going to be at a range that you "should have" been able to kill him at too. The HMG nerf just makes the lack of sharpshooter more smooth because now things should be more or less proportionate to before except everyones at a much closer range..... oh wait a second..... closer range?? isn't that what heavies like/need?? (buff).....

THIRDLY: not that its official or anything but I did see a bit of notes on the.... patch notes?? and it said that ALL HEAVY SUITS WILL COST THE EQUIVALENT OF ASSAULT SUITS ON THE SAME META LEVEL. (Heavy Proto Vk. 1 = 90k instead of 250k now)......... (BUFF). It also said the same with all weapons too, AND it even said that adv level gear and lower costs less then it used too...... so basically that's one massive buff.

THEN FINALLY I heard somewhere on here that the HP count for heavies is buffing up a bit (like having the possibility of having 1500 health). that's not official but in any case I would say this build is more or less ONE MASSIVE HEAVY BUFF. so quit your whining and actually read the entire patch note before you go crying on the forums.

Nope, they can get about 1300 HP max atm, which will still be melted by ARs.

All anyone has to do is sprint our of the HMGs terrible range, turn and shoot the heavy.

Heavies are now strictly for camping around corners.

look, 4 complex plates is a 40% movement pentle. That means a heavy will move at about 3/ms. Most no heavy suits sprint at what? 6/ms?

sincerely tempted to drop heavy next build, seeing as CCP hates us.

they had a burn jita protest inEVE yes, anyone got ideas on how to tell CCP to go **** themselves in this game?

you guys have no idea how the next build is going to work. i have never seen one predication come true on these forums,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZYhVpdXbQ

Nope, they can get about 1300 HP max atm, which will still be melted by ARs.

All anyone has to do is sprint our of the HMGs terrible range, turn and shoot the heavy.

Heavies are now strictly for camping around corners.

look, 4 complex plates is a 40% movement pentle. That means a heavy will move at about 3/ms. Most non-heavy suits sprint at what? 6/ms?

Correct m if I'm wrong but dont the new heavies start with 400 base shields and armor with four low? Passively bring both base up to 500 and with stacked plates that's pretty close to 2000. Yes heavies move slow. Yes you can't run across an open field. But you have more HP than most LAVs.

Damnit CCP....

Why do you constantly have to nerf heavies.. we are not in such a good place you can afford to do that. We will already have less dps anyway from the loss of high slots and now this?

who?

That drunken heavy guy who makes those videos. DS 10.

this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/user/DSTheDrunkHeavy

everyone said that the high cost in this build WASN'T a nerf to heavies, but now that the price DROPS it's a buff?

can't have your cake and eat it mate

It is when it's convenient for them, cause poo is better than expensive poo

How can heavies possibly complain when you now have 4 low slots to stack more HP? That more than makes up for a few less points of DPS

That's nowhere near the 2000 hp a heavy can now obtain. Also, lol @ armor tanking assaults...

I believe he's going to find a new career choice.

Frankly, the heavy suit bonus should have been *reduction in armor plate penalty*