I don't think you realize how slow a heavy is once you throw 3 or 4 plates on it.

No such thing as a good heavy who uses no tactic

The heavy also needs turning speed increased slightly......just enough so it is possible to follow a target......right now you just get circle strafed to death

Since we're throwing out far-fetched bordering ridiculous ideas in here,

The Scout suit needs to get 11% chance to evade incoming damage per level with a maximum of 50% chance to evade at level 5.

Yey! And more CPU/PG.

Since we're throwing out far-fetched bordering ridiculous ideas in here,

The Scout suit needs to get 11% chance to evade incoming damage per level with a maximum of 50% chance to evade at level 5.

Yey! And more CPU/PG.

No such thing as a good heavy who uses no tactic

Then why have proto basic suits? The basic can be useful. If I want to run two hi slots on my heavy guess what? I need to go proto basic. I think the solution is just increase base hp to 1000 and just disperse it to shield and armor based on race and add another utility based on race as well. Ie amarr 400 shield and 600armor and an extra high. Gallente the same but with a low. Caldari suit shield600 armor 400 extra high. Winmatar 500 and 500 with an equipment slot.


Edit: you could argue switching amarr and gallente but so far gallente seem to get extra lows while amarr gets even highs and lows

Im not apposed to this but it would need lots of balance work 35% res is probably to high. Better to low ball it at first and then increase as needed. Might need to make heavys slower as well.

The heavy also needs turning speed increased slightly......just enough so it is possible to follow a target......right now you just get circle strafed to death

Losing 1/3 plus of damage (35%) is excessive but a change in the that direction is needed for heavies to be as advertised.

IMO, when they move the bonuses down to Basic dropsuits, the basic should get a "+2% Damage Resistance per Level". That's a meaningful bonus, which wont outright ruin anything, and will encourage people going to level V before jumping up to Sentinel.

Now if only we could get a meaningful Sentinel bonus....

Agreed. Heavies don't need to be any slower. As long as they are the slowest class, that's should be good enough.

just give heavies WP for suppressing enemies and taking damage
increase resistance when being healed by a logistics don't just increase the heavies ability to act alone

the logistics class is practically made to cover most of the heavies shortcomings

low on health have a logi heal you
you died get revived with 80 percent of your armor
ran out of ammo logi got you covered with nano hives and can give you a slight repair with certain nano hives

also point defense does not mean to stay at one objective it means to stay at one point and fire from that one point use an lav to get to a spot and stay in that spot

also most heavies need to learn to play
i see to many heavies running across open areas
not firing while close to cover
getting tunnel syndrome and only shooting in one direction when you can see 4 red dots on radar coming from other directions

i just went through the market and made a couple calculations. the max fire rate on the tac rifle is 780 rpm (might not be exact.) that's 13 bullets in a second (and no, mashing r1 13 times a second is not hard for a good fpser. i can cap out the 1000 rpm on the maggie in borderlands 2 if i feel like it.) each of which deal 78 points of damage. 13x78=1014. 1014 damage a second on a light weapon is already pretty ridiculous. with 2 damage mods and full pro, you can get that up to 1348 damage per second. meaning i can flank a supertanked logi or a fully tanked heavy and kill them in less than a second. now, lets take the proto hmg (which is designed to obliterate infantry) and figure out its dps. the rof is 2000 rpm, which equates to 33 shots per second. 33x19.4=604.2. 2 mods and full pro will get that up to 851 damage per second. whoever thought it was a good idea to give an assault rifle nearly double the damage of a MINIGUN should be fired right now. and its not like the recoil makes a difference if you know what you're doing. you wanna know what the strategy used by PXRXO, pink fluffy bounty hunters, imperfects, and everyone else that goes 20-0 with this disgrace to competitive gaming is? get sharpshooter 5, turn aim assist on, and mash the trigger at shotgun range. great job, ccp. your buffing of the tar has resulted in the only weapon more overpowered than dual wield fmg9s (aka what made mw3 garbage).