As far as I have been able to figure out from my somewhat extensive experience playing a tech, if you are healing an ally who is shooting an enemy, you often get an assist even if you've not shot at them yourself, I have a feeling somewhere in the coding it counts part of an ally's dmg as your own whilst you heal them, or something odd like that. Also, the Redox assist percentages are all over the damned place, and never seem to correlate with the direct dmg you cause, but I can't speak for the last 8-10 months or so, coz I never use it any more (RPR gives much more flexibility and the pistol is way superior in CQC).
Also, on a related note, I've never been able to figure out the actual dmg rate of the red beam, it seems to differ between mech classes, distance to target and even direction of travel (it seems to do more dmg as you approach, but that might just be me).
Long live the Techninja!
Edited by Veklim, 28 May 2015 - 01:52 PM.