Other Item Kits Should Be Brought Up to Juggernaut Shield Level

Shhh! They may see your post, decide they made a mistake with the Juggy Shield and nerf the bejesus out of it.

I'm on board with the Adaptive War Amp and and Engineering Kit buffs.

But the Combatives Upgrade is a bit too much. 25% more damage would be super meta, and while many weapons wouldn't even be viable with +25%, I think it would be too large of a bonus for Equipment. We'll like be getting the Guerrilla Upgrade (sniper+pistol damage) next week, and traditionally gear bonuses have been paired like this. I could see +15% being fine for these.

EDIT: Also keep in mind there can be copious amounts of melee damage bonuses in a character's passives, whereas the highest raw weapon damage bonus is 25% for kroguard and human vanguard.

You really like nerfed weapons don't you. In order to make the mattock good, it will need a 75% equipment boost at least to be good. In order for the Viper X to be gold worthy, it needs the 75% from the guerilla pack.

I'm all for it, but the underlying balance is going to be a problem for this kind of thing anyway. Power damage could be buffed, sure, but there's not much they could do with the weapon items that wouldn't break some weapons whilst making a few bad ones about viable outside of bronze. They need to address that shit first... Maybe nerf The Friend's biotic abilities while they're at it.

I like your power suggestions, I think 25% on guns is a bit too much and would kinda force us to pick that one over the power kits though. I'd rather they just buff guns instead of making one piece of equipment a must pick.

But yeah currently the power damage kits are underwhelming. And I agree they need to boost combos a bit as well. I can really only see it being worthwhile on the krogan merc but to be honest the flamer in this is kinda crap so unless you also take a tech power amp you won't exactly be melting things regardless. As for the biotic power amp was that ever worth using except on maybe the huntress even in me3? Iirc it didn't effect combos. I used the tech amp on flamer and that was the only time I used on of those amps.

Bioware plz. Make flamer great again.

No. It may seem counter-intuitive, but making the bonuses too big just makes the choice of the item less meaningful, as for any playstyle there is a specific item you must use to get the most out of that playstyle.

In fact - and this may seem controversial - I find the equipment system, as it exist in MEA & ME3MP, to be actually harmful to good gameplay. It might seem like a nice, rewarding thing to give players bonuses to certain aspects, but what that also means is that anything that can't get a bonus is effectively penalized by this system. Yeah, it's cool that you can get a bonus to all weapon damage if you equip both a pistol and a sniper rifle. But what if you wanted to equip both a shotgun and a pistol? Why is that combination such an evil thing that it must be discouraged? As an extreme example, what if we had an item that gave +100% shields, but only on asari characters? Clearly that would be a boon to all asari players, but it would also be a signficant penalty to others. On the other hand, if we had an item like that for all races, then what would be the point?

Straight-up bonuses should be reserved to one-time consumables. Permanent gear should you give both bonuses and penalties in such a way that they wouldn't make you stronger in any obvious way, but they would change the way you play the game. A few examples off the top of my head:
- +50% combo radius, -20% power recharge speed
- +30% weapon damage, -30% ROF and reload speed
- +50% shield recharge speed, -30% shields
- +20% movement speed, -30% health & shields
- +100% weapon switch speed, -50% spare ammo
- +100% cobra capacity and launch every other cobra for free, -10% weapon & melee damage
...and so on, you get the point.

Or if you want to use an amp for your powers but you're playing something like a sentinel and you have both biotic and tech powers. You're kind of screwed compared to an adept for no good reason.

I don't get why everyone thinks Juggernaut shield is so amazing. Does it give the largest mathematical boost? Yes. Is every character interested in melee? No. Is 10% shields worth dick when your base shields are 250? Fuck no. So.. it isn't like Juggernaut Shield is so incredible that it goes on everything. The +15% gears are fine, and I'm glad we have them. 15% damage is a lot more useful than 10% shields and some giant melee buff.

..but I'd trade every single one of them for Geth Scanner.

They can definitely do better than +10% weapon damage for sure.

...15%.

The moment you say consumable is the moment your argument becomes worthless.

Do you work for Nexon by any chance?

No, that is not where you go. You do not gouge your customers ALREADY AGAIN to 'fix' your game. You fix your game in good faith, letting your customers know you give a shit about their play experience, of which you are already paid quite handsomely to craft.

The only troll here is you, and that you can't even figure out how egregiously predatory your suggestion is in a system where you have to 'pay' to buy revives is kind of amazing. My 'retort' is a short as it is because that's as much consideration as 'pray to rngesus for better damage' should be given.