Be patient, I dare say that the Caldari and Minmatar heavy suits will allow heavy shield tanking.

It'd be nice if we had them.

Light and medium suits have a good variety of differentiating slots to choose between going shield or armor. I understand that there will be caldari heavy suits in the game eventually and that the Amarr racial dropsuits are designed to be even in terms of shields and armor...but why can't there at least be a type-II or something? I mean even vehicles have a clear choice between armor and shields, so why leave the heavies out?

I was really hopeful for the commando to be a bit different, but it's still Amarr, and the slot loadout on the commando doesn't allow for much anyways...

(as a side note, the Mauler Heavy still has the slot loadout from Chromosome, i.e. two highs one low)

I'd like to see a variant of the heavy suit (for now at least) that has more high slots, and a higher base shield with lower armor.

For example:

Amarr Heavy A-II / A-2 / ak.1

480 shield, 240 armor, 760 ehp (50 less than type-I)
(at lvl 5 shield/armor these values would be 600 shield and 300 armor, 900 ehp, 112 less than type-I)

STD - 2 high, 1 low
ADV - 3 high, 1 low
PRO - 4 high, 2 low

I based these values off of the Caldari Assault
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I don't care if all other stats stay the same, I would just like to have some more options for a heavy with shields. 2 high slots doesn't really give me much to work with, especially when the HMG practically requires damage mods.