-heavies need base 30% resistance to small arms and explosives
-heavies need bass 500 shield and 500 armor
-heavies need at least 2 high power and lower power slots to begin with
-heavies need 15% increase to running speed, and 10% to turning speed
-HMG needs increase to range and accuracy after initial spooling


doing this will make the heavy a more versitile drop suit and lead to a more dynmic and fun game play. where players will need to think tacticaly and use skill. where goods are balanced with bads. in this way the heavy can actually participate in combat instead of just hoping enemies will come to him without sneaking up on him (CCP did a great job with the objectives having multiple access points. :) these are only slight buffs so scouts and assaults can still circle you and kill you. but they have to do so skillfully.

if you can't defend yourself how are you going to protect anyone else? logi's, scouts, assualts can all do it. its the heavies turn for a buff.

in short, area denial, squad defense, frontline support, and being a general contribution to the team will make the heavy playable. because really who has 6-7million sp to blow on a class that can only be used every few games. who has 100,000 isk to spend on proto gear and proto suits that arent any better than the militia gear. CCP we need these changes. help a brotha out!

Yeah, and every scrub in the game will go heavy too (not trying to say you are a scrub). The game will go from AR514 to HeavyScrubPackingAGLU/DTAR514. Heavies should be deathspitting bollards of Doom, not bulky Assault suits.

@Warlord

I am guessing that you haven't noticed me refer to Heavies as "semi-mobile bollards". I really think CCP needs to look at making them react to LAV impacts the same way that bollards react to vehicle impacts.

I.E. If the driver is stupid enough to collide with a heavy, he deserves to be stopped dead in his tracks and take significant damage (if not blow up outright).

Now, please keep in mind that I am not talking about Heavies as they currently are. If they have their movement speed nerfed, their Raw HP buffed, get variable Armor/Shield Small Arms Fire resists dependant on Racial Variant and get their turning speed increased by roughly double; then they should behave the same as bollards for LAVs/Derpships (the more lightly armored of the vehicles).

I really think that Heavies should be the segue between dropsuits and MTACs and I think that the best way to represent this is detailed above.

Also, HMG should have its damage buffed, though keep its optimal between 10-15m. If you're infantry and you get within that range and you aren't a Heavy, you should be dead before you hear the HMG spinning up.

why would you slow down a heavy, thats like speeding up a scout...

the heavy is already slow it needs to be faster (not as fast as any of the other suits, but definately much faster)

I'll agree that the turn speed should be increased, though I still feel that they should have movement speed of a stump.

Once they give us MTACs, then you can have your high-mobility Infantry (well as Infantry as a Mech can be) tank.

I do have to say that I really, really want the ability to collect helmets so that when we do get MTACs I can spend AUR on having a "grass skirt" for my MTAC that consists of steel cable with PRO helmets at the ends.

Ok, so maybe I used the wrong analogy, however, nerfed movement speed is the only way to balance the proposed "I act like a bollard", I'm not saying that they should be totally immobile, though they should have MORE difficulty getting around. I really do want them to be buffed with HP, turn speed and whatnot; though they should move much less faster than they currently do.

They should be the Jason Vorhees of the battlefield, painfully slow, unrelenting and out for blood. As it is right now, they're not this, they're still too fast.

I've faced off against many, many heavies today (seemed like 90% of my deaths were heavies) and I was even run down by one on foot, how the **** does that happen?

Heavies need to be more distinct from Assault, I've seen too many people using Heavies as though they were Assault suit, this shouldn't even be an entertained thought.

When there are no more Assaults running around because they're all in Heavies, don't say I didn't warn you.

I guess you'll all enjoy it when this game is nothing but scrubs running around in Heavy suits claiming they're good when they'd suck without those crutches under their arms.