Ok.

Amarr will definitely be getting a Heavy weapon of some kind.

It will probably be a Super Death Laser of Doom and Destruction.

For now, you get reload speed on Heavy Weapons or reduced overheat damage on the couple of non-Heavy weapons that have overheat damage.

^ good guess

Op is right in that 2/3 slot layout is immensely superior to 1/4, makingframe suit much better than sentinel.

^ good guess

Op is right in that 2/3 slot layout is immensely superior to 1/4, makingframe suit much better than sentinel.

Once we get plates that don't have movement penalties for less armor, plates that have built in reppers for even lesser armor and resistance modules, you might change that train of though.

I also figure some time down the road we are going to get a laser hmg

I am currently using a std sentinel heavy suit, the thing is 3x cheaper than the base frame X that by a year and that is a lot of isk saved. My entire fit I am using atm for pub matches costs 11k isk. I also figure some time down the road we are going to get a laser hmg ( hopes it is like the one from fall out 3 ) if so I would assume it can overheat and actually damage you, vs the one we have now that no one overheats and if you are bad and do overheat it, it does no damage to you.

yeah, so its better to wait for that specific weapon to come out before speccing into the sentinel suit, though it would be nice to see a laser hmg

Proto sentinel is better for point defense during actual important fights, ADV sentinel is better for random pub matches due to lack of cost and room for speed mods.

Basic frame is better for "herp derp i've got two damage mods".

Any advantage is a good advantage, i'd rather have that 10% reload speed bonus then to not have it.

Proto sentinel is better for point defense during actual important fights, ADV sentinel is better for random pub matches due to lack of cost and room for speed mods.

Basic frame is better for "herp derp i've got two damage mods".

^ good guess

Op is right in that 2/3 slot layout is immensely superior to 1/4, makingframe suit much better than sentinel.

I don't know what suit's you've been looking at on the marketplace but Ammar Heavy Frame ak.0 is most definitely 2 high, 3 low. The Sentinel ak.0 is with 100% certainty 1 high, 4 low.

Any advantage is a good advantage, i'd rather have that 10% reload speed bonus then to not have it.

the basic suits can do the same tho... and all those skill points... not worth a x10



unless you have maxed your other support skills... HMG prof for example

3.1m SP for 10% reload decrease (.8s)
1.8m SP for 15% reload decrease (reload skill @ 6x) (1.2s)

sure 10% is nice, but better things I can use my SP on atm.

the sentinel suit has great potential, but not worth it until more stuff available

3 mil SP for some lame bonuses and meh slots...yeeeeaaa

I'll just wait for another heavy variant. Basic Proto suit is good enough atm...hell, I use Adv for pubs and it does the job.

Sentinel suit might be better suited with a different weapon, cuz I don't see the advantage of using an HMG and having less feedback dmg and 10% faster reload

As a heavy, im quite happy where i am. On a normal day i pull out my advanced suit, pile on some decent mods and happily career around a battlefield murdering whatever i can get into range.

However, i hit that point where what to train next comes to mind...

Browsing my options i have a look at the sentinel and well... a x10 skill to get a 10% reload speed bonus doesnGÇÖt appeal... at all.

I put forward that there there is no real incentive to train for the sentinel class, the suits offer no advantage other than the reload speed over the basic suits. (Ignoring Aurum suits n the like).

Someone think differently?

Is there some super Amarr heavy laser weapon of doom coming that i should know about?

yea I run adv 98% of the time.. really only use proto for my forge fits due to space. damn ishukone and its what 102 CPU?

worth every penny tho ;-)

As another fatty I see no point to training into sentinel suits right now. I think the gallente suit is going to be awesome and would love to see all the heavy weapons before I skill past a proto racial frame (though I really would have liked to see them before the respec).besides the proto frame suit is pretty good, and lets be honest: one high slot on the proto sentinel is a freakin joke.