The intense melee focus around the heavy's prestige perks is not motivating at all to try and grind for. I understand the intent to boost the heavy's utility outside of shooting but he is legitimately the only class that doesnt have a melee weapon. The charged stomp is sufficient enough to privide breathing room to either rearm or fallback to more capable teammates. 

Id suggest sustainability perks that center around ammunition regain or ability charge perks that dont lean solely on melee. One or two melee perks is fine enough but I dont main heavy for his melee. I main him because i like shredding enemies with big guns. Perhaps a perk that allows for buffing damage against a single target thats been pinged. For example, a Carnifex has been pinged by a teammate. I think there should be a perk that helps me keep that withering fire on that target.

Another idea for the heavy is increasing his iron halo to cover more ground. Many times have i pushed into a hallway with enemy fire threatening teammates that id rather burn my ability charge to spearhead a charge while my brothers keep just behind me in a protected push. If this could be enlarged further to help shield a wider area then i can see the heavy being a true bastion of fire.

I can understand if the idea of the current perks is that the heavy is too good at shooting and perks around may make him OP, but he is legitimately the only class without a melee weapon. Let him be good at the one option he has. If a team lets their heavy be swarmed then thats a failure on the team and a loss is warranted. But if a heavy cant provide supporting fire due to lack of ammo to an assault or vanguard push, then its a failure on the heavy and the team will be punished. 

Let the heavy be good at being a heavy. After all, Big Guns Never Tire.

A good way to make perks for heavy that aren't just bonus damage for gun would be better ammo regen.
Something like:
+100% gained from ammo pick up.
+50% side arm ammo reserve.

The Heavy perks are basically useless.

i actually like the heavy prestige perks, they make the class a little less one dimensional. full prestige heavy melee is strong. i would switch maybe the ammo for extremis to some emperors vengance light perk so he could generate some ammo more reliable.

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Astartes wrote:

i actually like the heavy prestige perks, they make the class a little less one dimensional. full prestige heavy melee is strong. i would switch maybe the ammo for extremis to some emperors vengance light perk so he could generate some ammo more reliable.

Let me ask you, what is the main class that you play in this game?