It's cool and all, you know infantry buffs. But us tankers have been on the back burner for far too long. We are basically getting nerfed even more then we are. It's ok, the nice long break is somewhat in process, down to one game a night if I'm lucky.

CCP you are burning me out. All I can do is bend over and take it in the ass.

Armor tanking is dead! All hail shield tanks!

Seriously though...

A full skilled proto swarm:

Lock on time: 1.12
Refire time: .3
Time between shots: 1.42 seconds (from 3.2 seconds pre-1.4)

Damage: 330x6 times 1.15 equals 2277 per volley.
One 10% damage mod: 2504 per volley.
One damage mod against an armor tank: 3256 damage per volley.
Time/Damage of a full clip: 4.26 seconds for 9768 damage.
Damage reduction with max skills and a 15% module: 23.5% - Full clip deals 7909
Average armor tank health: 6700 armor with 1000 shields.

Factor in vehicle speed, swarms performing 360 turning speed on a dime, homing, and invisibility if they are past rendering range: Armor is dead, all hail shields!

Armor dropships will be dead before they can even react and as swarms are homing they will now be worse than forge guns as there is no way to avoid them other than an afterburner.
Armor tanks will be unable to react in time and will be alpha killed, armor reps will be useless as they take 2-3 seconds to start once activated.

*Swarm Launcher base lock-on time has been increased to 1.4 from 1.2 and its fire interval has been reduced from 2 to 0.3

This is offset by the skill change

*The Swarm Launcher Operation skill bonus has been changed from increasing the clip size to reducing the lock-on time by 5%

So in fact it locks on quicker and also fires alot faster

* The Forge Gun, Mass Driver, Swarm Launcher, and Plasma Cannon ammo skills now provide 1 extra unit of ammo for each level of the skill (for a maximum of 5) instead of a % bonus per level

They also have more ammo to **** us with


So if they still have missiles which are invisible and go around corners while being able to keep lock on when not locking at target and locking on through cover all vehicles are super ******

This is 3 buffs to the swarms launcher which wasnt needed


I better have a proto tank in 1.5 because for the next month swarms will ******* hurt alot more and alot faster than now

I will be on that ******* hill now


EDIT

* All handheld weapon reload skills now have a cost multiplier of x3 (down from x6) and their skill book ISK price reduced to 203,000 from 774,000

So you can say 4 buffs now, i just realised it but they can reload faster so faster lock on and firing with faster reload because its cheaper to get the skill now so more swarms everyfuckingwhere

Super crutch - **** me and i thought vehicles couldnt get any worse off but it seems they can just buff AV

1 proto swarm user will be able to kill that tank before he knows what happens because lol 3 volleys in the air at the same time is so easy

Dropships dont bother fellas you ******

We are getting overnerfed

tanker crying about crutches when the tank is the biggest crutch in the game.