I understand that there have been complaints about heavies being underpowered before but I saw a thread that I completely agree with.

This thread was about giving an attribute skill for heavies to passively deduct a percentage of taken damage.

I find this fair for numerous reasons. Me being a heavy, know the struggle.

1. Really slow
2. End up with less shield than Assault
3. Large hit box (With any aim talent, almost impossible to miss)
4. Tac ARs melt us almost instantly (Along with Scrambler rifles)
5. No match for locus grenades

The heavies are a dying class and is dying more and more as time goes by because frankly, people are smart and I and a few others are the only ones stupid enough to remain.

This gentleman can paint the picture better than I can: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=81725&find=unread

Ouch

Indeed

I think the heavy needs some love

I understand that there have been complaints about heavies being underpowered before but I saw a thread that I completely agree with.

This thread was about giving an attribute skill for heavies to passively deduct a percentage of taken damage.

I find this fair for numerous reasons. Me being a heavy, know the struggle.

1. Really slow
2. End up with less shield than Assault
3. Large hit box (With any aim talent, almost impossible to miss)
4. Tac ARs melt us almost instantly (Along with Scrambler rifles)
5. No match for locus grenades

The heavies are a dying class and is dying more and more as time goes by because frankly, people are smart and I and a few others are the only ones stupid enough to remain.

This gentleman can paint the picture better than I can: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=81725&find=unread

Double Indeed

Don't forget that they have massive HP, have access to heavy weapons, and can basically destroy anyone at CQ unless they suck.

Biggest problem is we don't have everything available to make a heavy a damn heavy. One racial suit, one AV weapon, and one AI weapon. The AR is OP because it's being used as a placeholder for all the other racial variants, making it too versatile. Heavies are the opposite, we got a fraction of the tools we need and are forced to be balanced among medium/light frame suits and light weapons. Want to fix heavies? We need more content.

You guys are doing it wrong have 2 stud heavies in my corp they melt duvole tacs haven't asked them how, but they do. Heavies are like Tanks now neither are super easy mode, takes ridiculous skill to use a heavy or a tank this build its kind of exciting CCP almost has everything balanced once tac ar gets it eventual fix, dropships get buffed a little, logi LAV get put back to what they were, mass drivers get some sort of buff, and Assault suits become better at being assaults then the logi suit... everything will be in balance.

I'd be interested to see what the remaining three heavies are like before balancing the only one available at the present.

Given the joke of a passive bonus the Amarr specialization gives, I'm surprised more ppl don't just spec into ONLY the level5 basic Heavy suit. It'll still allow you to be a Heavy, but also save SP for the future release of all the racial variants.

That's what I did.

Sentinal is a bad joke, like many other things in this game right now.

I think if they fixed the aiming and made the turn speed faster that would help a lot. I used my respec to go back to Heavy and I had mixed results this morning. The Heavy has always been slow. but the lack of turning ability is frustrating. If a enemy starts moving it's very difficult to turn quick enough and adjust on the fly. Tac Rifles are a issue for everyone, but they eat alive Heavies big time. The Tactical Rifle has incredible power and can bring down a Proto Sentinel Heavy in about 8 shots. My range with HMG's wasn't too concerning and I can adjust to it.

Over all, Heavies can still be somewhat useful on the battlefield from what I saw this morning. It's difficult, but if you're patient you can still be effective with HMG's and the heavy class.

Given the joke of a passive bonus the Amarr specialization gives, I'm surprised more ppl don't just spec into ONLY the level5 basic Heavy suit. It'll still allow you to be a Heavy, but also save SP for the future release of all the racial variants.

This.

Need all the variables before trying to balance something

I understand that there have been complaints about heavies being underpowered before but I saw a thread that I completely agree with.

This thread was about giving an attribute skill for heavies to passively deduct a percentage of taken damage.

I find this fair for numerous reasons. Me being a heavy, know the struggle.

1. Really slow
2. End up with less shield than Assault
3. Large hit box (With any aim talent, almost impossible to miss)
4. Tac ARs melt us almost instantly (Along with Scrambler rifles)
5. No match for locus grenades
6. Really slow rotation (If enemy is behind, fight is already lost)

The heavies are a dying class and is dying more and more as time goes by because frankly, people are smart and I and a few others are the only ones stupid enough to remain.

This gentleman can paint the picture better than I can: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=81725&find=unread

A dying class?

I see usually 3x the amount of heavies per class as logi's. Too much exaggeration.

Btw this was before the respecs
Still to this point, heavies could use a buff

Btw this was before the respecs
Still to this point, heavies could use a buff

heavies not a dying breed they just been re-purposed to be more like a mobile AV battery

A decrease in curser drag while in ADS view with the HMG is probably the least drastic change CCP could make and still have a significant benefit. For those that dont run heavy I will explain:

As with any other weapon ADS increases accuracy-what this means for the HMG is a drastic reduction to the bullet spread of the weapons cone of fire. More bullets going where you point them increases damage dealt, decreases time to kill and and saves a lot of ammunition. The current cursor speed while in ADS view won't move fast enough to track a target that is moving parallel to field of view. This forces the player to hip-fire what is already a very inacurate weapon in order to keep sustained fire.

This would make a measurable difference to the effectiveness of the class without changing any values to weapon or dropsuit stats.