because there would be too much of a performance gap. Dust 514 is based on teamwork,strategy, and risk/reward. if you add to the high end suits, you take away from the necessity of teamwork

Shields = explosive/kinetic resistant. weak to EM/thermal
Armor = thermal/EM resistant. weak to explosive/kinetic
choose your fights and fits accordingly

one thing that every dust merc needs to know if they are not a long time EVE pilot:
CCP WILL Change the dynamics. you must adapt. for example. minmatar suits are my favorite in bonuses and i think the best. in 6 months they might change bonuses and then caldari might have the best suits. leaving it up to players to adapt and use teamwork.

CCP is sneaky like that. trust me. they will not be nerfed forever. get into the lore and roleplay of new eden and choose from there

Did you watch the Fanfest Tournament?

Did you SEE how many times those guys overheated the Scrambler Rifle?

Just saying - less feedback damage would probably be a good thing when you're firing in a freaggin panic.

Shields or armour is about as big a specialisation option as deciding which kind of grenade to put on your suit.

Also; knowing CCP is likely to play around with various abilities in the future only makes requests & suggestions like mine more relevant, not less.

Finally; of course there will be a performance gap. That's the entire point of giving us different levels of gear to fight with. This doesn't undermine the teamwork aspect, it enhances it. Teamwork thrives on diversity, not uniformity.

it makes the bonus talk less relevant. they cycle bonuses and OP one at a time until the next time around when they start to equalize it. like they do in EVE

there is a fine line between diversity and OP. and making more of a gap is crossing the line. i dont know if you have seen the proto suits. before this patch i was in an advanced logi suit with 500+ armor and almost 200 shields with a triage nanochive. that **** was like playing an AR heavy with a personal logi.

the suit is what you make it.

the one downfall of that amazing suit is that i had to stay in the nanochive bubble. so it was amazing at defending a point and total WP harvester... mess with the fits. try something new. thats how we EVE pilots do. everyone expects you to run up using a certain gun with a certain type of tank and bla bla... then someone gets brave and puts their reputation on the line and changes the whole "standard/expected" fit until the next patch. CCP loves people to exploit their game so they know what to nerf and how to nerf it

Your logi fitting isn't an example of specialisation, it's just a powerful fitting. You've given a false equivalency.

ok. how is this invalid? i had an advanced suit with 3 times the hp of militia suit that repped almost the same speed as having my personal logi. AND I WASNT EVEN IN A PROTO SUIT YET!!! i dont even wanna see how OP i would have been in a proto suit. would be no fun having no competition.

so me getting creative with a fitting in an advanced suit already equals 3 times the hp of militia, 120% of the damage, self reps, self ammo, good grenades, and you are asking for more of performance gap between proto and militia when there is already this gap?

thats why i say. try out some new fits, get creative and you might find that there is more of a gap than you think

Did you watch the Fanfest Tournament?

Did you SEE how many times those guys overheated the Scrambler Rifle?

Just saying - less feedback damage would probably be a good thing when you're firing in a freaggin panic.

get creative. that is New Eden. make the best outta what you have. if you master the basic suit. then move on to the specialized proto suit. if you have not maxed out and tried all fittings for that dropsuit. which almost nobody has then dont complain. they are specialized for very specific squad roles. they are not for solo play. they are meant purely for squad.