Change it to 2% damage reduction per level. Forge gun doesn't have feedback damage. HMG doesn't have feedback damage. Give that bonus to Amarr logistics, since only weapons with feedback damage are Amarr and logibros favor defensive abilities. Sentinel class seems defense biased as well, given that the Amarr dropsuit has more lows than highs for plates instead of damage mods. So damage reduction is only logical I guess.

Change it to 2% damage reduction per level. Forge gun doesn't have feedback damage. HMG doesn't have feedback damage. Give that bonus to Amarr logistics, since only weapons with feedback damage are Amarr and logibros favor defensive abilities. Sentinel class seems defense biased as well, given that the Amarr dropsuit has more lows than highs for plates instead of damage mods. So damage reduction is only logical I guess.

There's a new heavy laser weapon coming in the future that will take advantage of the reduced blowback damage. It's just unfortunate that the moment that us heavys don't have the variations of suits and weapons to properly plan our skills.

I didn't even skill into Sentinel. The bonus is not worth the SP.

There's a new heavy laser weapon coming in the future that will take advantage of the reduced blowback damage. It's just unfortunate that the moment that us heavys don't have the variations of suits and weapons to properly plan our skills.

I agree here... A bonus to the Sentinal suit which only affects one heavy racial weapon doesn't make sense...

Well the sentinel is a racial suit. It does make sense that it'd be tailored to make the best use of it's own race's heavy weapon.

The minmatar heavy might have a bonus that will improve HMG use, like heat buildup reduction or faster cooling.

The caldari heavy might have a bonus to improve the forge gun, like reduced charge time.

The gallente heavy might have a bonus to improve usage of whatever one of the gallente heavy weapons might be. Here's hoping for a miniature scale of the Aurora Ominae.

Anyway, to my taste, this bonus is lame, because you don't want to overheat in the first place.

Maybe for the Amarr weapon, it'll be a scaled up AV-variant of the laser rifle, but where overheating is the only way for maximum damage, and the overheat-cooling period is just the weapon's version of the Forgegun's charging time.

Definitely can't wait for more Amarrian weapons, and CCP needs to include a new heavy weapon in the next round of updates, as the poor buggers only have 2 weapons to choose from at the moment unless they just want to be a slower assault.

There's a new heavy laser weapon coming in the future that will take advantage of the reduced blowback damage. It's just unfortunate that the moment that us heavys don't have the variations of suits and weapons to properly plan our skills.

So what if something is coming? What's the point of having the sentinal now then? It's useless now, it might as well not exist why would anyone skill it now? Also if in the future the heavy laser sucks then it will continue to be useless then as well.