And with the heavy, maybe a little more base HP would be good, just to make them a little more like they were over a year ago.

Some of your suggestion are valid. But all of them together just makes either suit probably OP.

Two grenade slot for scouts is just asking for trouble. Beside, grenades are tied to a button, you cant switch to it. So selecting the nade would require UI and control changes which isnt the fastest thing to do.

Increase CPU and PG, ok. But 20 each ? 20 CPU i get, but 20 PG is like HUGE. Base scan profile is already low and the spec bonus is making them dodge even active scanner afaik.

Increase speed is what would make the more sense considering its their main defense. But they're already fast as hell and hit detection may not like another buff.

I like the hacking speed bonus. Would make a fine specialization bonus associated to a base radar signature reduction.


Now for heavies, giving them any extra slot is a bad idea and i would stick with the base HP buff. Someone mentionned giving heavies a % reduction to fire arms damage. It could work as well but it's a lot more tricky to set up (been discussing it with wolfman). Best solution would be to change the sentinel bonus to a "+4% bonus to both armor and shield base HP per level"

Would help make sentinels actually interesting. And would reinforce the heavies defense.

As for turn speed, it makes sense the heavy is way slower to turn than another suit. But, i'd wait till they made their changes to the DS3 behavior before going down that road. See how it impacts the whole thing.

See my thread on Movement Options.

Scouts benefit > Heavy Benefits.

More agility, less belly flopping.

CCP may not have to do anything to the scout or heavy if they'd lower the number of high/low slots all medium suits have. That may be an easier fix to balance the suits.

Or you could stop insisting on using them against Assault suits expecting to go toe-to-toe with something outside your specialization range.

More specializations have already been listed out in name for both Light and Heavy frames. I'm sure there will be at least one or two Assault-equivalent Specs for those that want to do so.

I primarily play heavies. Heavies are fine.

Beyond that the only heavy is an Amarr heavy, which means armor tanks (as you can tell by the amount of low slots we have.)

When they introduce shield tanking heavies and fix the fact armor tanks are underpowered we will be even MORE powerful. If we get buffed now we are setting ourselves up for a future nerf.

If you want to do anything to make heavies more effective, nerf flaylocks. I never realised how ridiculously OP those things were until I faced them in a fatsuit.