Caldari start with 50+ total hp. Skilling into the shield and armor skills, in the Caldari you get 25% over 210 = 52 and & 25% over 120 = 30, so with the Caldari you have 262 (shield) & 150 armor.

The Minmatar starts with 150 (shield) so you get like 37+ & 130 (armor) + 39 with maxed skills. So you start with something around 185 (shield) & 170 (armor). That make the Minmatar with a total of - 100 hp over the Caldari suit.

Plus the new bonuses for the Caldari will give them more shields. With maxed shield skills and full proto shield modules, the Minmatar reachs 550 (shield), you only have 2 low slots that you probably need to use with cpu & pg extenders because you spend all of them with the shield modules. while the Caldari has 3 low slots and it just need 4 high slots to reach more than 600 on shields.

About the speed? Did you even see the difference in the game of 0.4 speed? The numbers are very pretty, yay Minmatar has 0.4 more than Caldari. In the game, you run next to a Caldari for 1 minute and he can still reachs you with a shotgun. The speed difference is nothing.

Maybe do you want a nerf on the Minmatar suits too. Try to play the game first Iron Wolf Saber

Anything > Gallente Assault
Those Heavies can't get here fast enough.

The Minnie assault also looks pretty sexy imo.

Sadly, Core locus grenades do 925 armor damage.
Do 2+2 and you will see why Gallente will be the shittiest of all Heavies.

I dont get your debate on min vs cal assault. It 's just different play style.

Dont make it all about HPs.

Most of the current "meta" is HP Tank > Every other fit.

Caldari assault is still superior. More EHP, shorter shield delay, faster shield recharge. min assault only gets faster movement and extra sidearm ammo.

Ummm. . . No, explosive only do 120% damage to armor, not 135%.

CCP failed as usual.
This IS 135% to armor, it has been tested again and again and it is 135% to armor.
Every explosive does 135% to armor.
Wolfman admitted it on IRC.

Also, the range and DPS difference won't be that big.
In fact, the Magsce SMG will probably have less optimal range than the Breach AR.

Honestly to run the minmatar assault correctly you only use 4 highs for extenders and you use one of the highs for a recharger. Their recharge rate is very limited otherwise.....recharging at 22 shields per second takes forever to recharge and they have longer recharge delays.

Also it gets the worst racial bonus. Caldari will be getting the best bonus here on this next update. Honestly Minmatar assault bonus should be 25% increase to stamina and stamina regen.

You only say its the worst due to how few sidearms there are currently, when the other racial sidearms show up, it will be much better. Then again the Assault SMG and Scrambler Pistol have decent range.

Even when there are more sidearms its still a bad bonus. The only bonuses are of greater benefit...either to shield tanking, or CPU/PG, or better cooldown on laser weaponry.

Caldari assault is still superior. More EHP

The best suits are Caldari due to the highest versatility, and HP possible out of all suits

So neither of you can add up - with max shield/armour skills the Mini assault runs at 1hp less shield and 19hp more armour than the Caldari assault - so factually you are both incorrect about EHP

5 high slots to stack extenders, which puts you at around Caldari assault eHP.
Inherent 1 armor hp/s regen, so you don't have to stick a repairer in the low.
So you get the same amount of lows (if the caldari uses a single repairer, which most do), while having the same HP.

And in addition you get the fastest suit in the game, which is what you want considering how broken the hit detection is in the game.

I'm not saying it's OP, just that it's probably one of the "done right" suits.
So whoever on the team created that, good job ;)


/random thought