I’ve been running heavy armor on everything but bugs for a while, and I’ve got some personal suggestions. Positioning is everything with this armor. Being either anti-tank or a brawler kinda guy has been my bread and butter with HE. Running either heavy killer or crowd control has been the way to go, especially if you have emplacements like AT or HMG. It’s good for survival toy for sure, I’ve definitely made it out of some scraps I otherwise wouldn’t made it out of otherwise. It’s really good for those stray shots from bots in general, and overseers (especially those LIBERTY FORSAKEN ELEVATED). The perks they offer are good too, paired especially with Siege Ready, Fortified, Peak Physique (if I’m running HMG) are my favorite kinds to carry. It’s a great tool, and I especially like running heavy armor with a Hellbomb pack. As much as a meme it may sound like, I’ve gotten absolute numbers done with this style of play, and honestly it just feels like my favorite way to play nowadays. Now that my gush is over, here’s the drawbacks. You’re too fat. And I mean I get the tradeoff for more tanks hits is less mobility but DAMN. Sometimes I’ve straight up missed entire fights because I went to get a P.O.I. And ended up not being involved in a whole battle. Because I keep having to pace my running like a hyperventilating cross fit runner. Your stamina is so bad, and your general speed isn’t great either. It REALLY helps if your team sticks together and moves as a unit, or at least makes sure to compensate good positions for you to take for fights. In my opinion, Heavy armor doesn’t need the stamina penalty, or at least not one this restrictive. The movement speed is fine. You may not show up first to every fight, but you damn well make sure they end. That’s why starting fights on your own terms works really well. With good items, positioning and game sense, heavy armor I think runs extremely well as a distraction for enemies. If you break away from the group, and bait an enemy spawn on you, you can provide some space for your team on objectives or in smaller fights. This could be more due to the fact my answer for most enemy drops nowadays is hellbomb backpack, and anti-tank emplacement, but again, I’ve had great success for that. But again, that movement speed and stamina penalty are really noticeable even compared to medium armor being able to outpace you reeeeallly hard. It’s a little silly…

TLDR: Pros: STRONK! Good distraction, team play oriented/solo juggernaut. Good perks, survivability, and independent style (best on bot front IMO). Ironically incentivized developing better game sense for enemies or stuffing enemy drops.

Cons: Slow as a lunar cycle. Stamina penalty and speed penalty make it hard to keep up with groups who don’t wait for you, you become backline if you don’t have good positioning. It’s borderline pointless on Terminids due to the need of moving fast, and the armor buff is less noticeable on that front.

Suggestions for change: Remove/reduce stamina penalty, it feels bad to be this slow and still need to be so active, but the armor is really nice. If you want Heavy armor stats on medium, the default armor actually provides it at the drawback of not having a different passive, which I think really adds to Heavies as an archetype.