when you do the total calculation at lvl 5 having a 30-45% resistance will still allow a singe militia AR to kill you in 1 clip. the difference is that they have to hit you with more concentrated fire, than they do now.

now they just need to spray half a clip into you and that kills you in less than a second. in 27 bullets out of the 60 clip, a Militia AR does close to 837 damage (31 damage per shot times 27)

this means that someone in a free suit can kill most heavies in less than half a clip. at 30 rounds this militia AR does 930 damage. literally praying and spraying with this gun pays off when it comes to killing heavies because their slow speed, and large hit box make it easy to hit them, and since less than 1/2 your clip is needed to kill one all you gotta do is spray

this 30%-45% resistance will ensure that more rounds are required from that clip, so a noob who just sprays and prays can't kill your over priced screaming metal death trap... i mean heavy suit.



^^the above calculations did not include the 10% buff, or proficiency, or damage mods. with the 10%, 15% and 18% from the buff, proficiency and 2 complex damage mods respectively 1199 damage is done with 27 bullets into the clip.

looking at the math @ 30 % a full clip from AR would still do 1302 dmg more than enough to kill all but deeply skilled (sp wise) heavies i change my stance and lwwould like to see 6% per level of respective racial heavy suit.

This thread needs some CCP love..

honestly i think if they gave us the SMG damage I'd be happy. It could be swung as Minmatar try to use the same caliber ammo for eveything,and that little boost in dmg would make significant difference at 2-4000rpm. The range definitely needs to be on par with the minmatar rifle tho.

This thread needs some CCP love..

This has been dicussed quite a few times already and CCP has made a response in one of them (sorry searched for some time but couldn't find it )
I think the response was that making the sentinel skill give some kind of a resistance bonus was actually a really good idea, but with the current HUD we have CCP are thinking that new guys who doesn't know that sentinels gets a resistance bonus would just think their guns are (or the hit detection) is really really bad when they're fighting a heavy.

So we basically have to come with some new HUD models that will seamlessly show players how good their gun is against the oponnent they are firing at
TIME TO GET SOME PAINT ACTION GOING !!!

but we have that already. the efficacy rating at the bottom when you aim at someone tells you the percent of the maxing damage your doing.

eHP is what should protect against small arms fire.

However, the description of heavy suits states that they're supposed to be explosive resistant.

but we have that already. the efficacy rating at the bottom when you aim at someone tells you the percent of the maxing damage your doing.

+1
i wanted to try heavy this new build . but seeing all junk that has been done to them . ehh no.
i would even go so far as to say make them useful . or get rid of them CCP
maybe even give them a skill to harden defenses but it should slow them down more.

but really they have no reason to be here anymore unless they get a level shake