Kekklian Noobatronic
Goonfeet
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Posted - 2013.09.16 10:56:00 -
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As an AV player, I used to relish the opportunity to kill a tank. Often it was a close fight, and I had to be very sneaky in order to pull off the kill. If I succeeded, it felt great. If I failed, it was usually because the tanker was on his toes, and I'd tip my had to him and write off the ISK from the suits as money well spent.
Nowadays, I'm tired.. I see a tank and I sigh inside, because most tankers have realised that an armor tank with a simple, massive buffer and a Large repper(or small, whatever) will defeat any attempts from a solo AV player(or small packs of ADV players) to kill him - regardless of what AV tier he's packing(STD/ADV/PRO).
Tankers don't understand how frustrating it is for an infantry player to see their tanks on the field. They only see the few losses they take(and they see those as BLASPHEMY!!). They don't see the insane number of kills they get, compared to the very very few deaths. And most of all, tankers are the LAST people that I would go to for advice on how strong AV is or is not, because they don't use it! Of course they're going to complain it's too powerful, because all they see is it being used against them. They don't count how many times they escaped, despite having 3 Lai Dai packed AV grenades and proto swarms thrown at them. Or how many times they've simply driven off from a slow forge gunner.
Being a tanker is *very* easy compared to being an Infantry player. Go in, activate hardeners, activate repper if low, mop up kills. Literally nothing to it. Oh, you got hit? Drive away, since you drive faster than any player(including a scout) can run. Tankers are just the easiest thing in the game - assuming you are using a STD with decent skill investment. About the only thing I can say tankers do have bad is that their progression is all screwed up. It's either A) You have not enough skill points and get stomped, or B) You have plenty of skill points and rarely - if ever - die.
It's just frustrating. I really hope CCP doesn't screw up 1.5, because if tanks get any harder to kill without severe nerfs in killing potential, that's likely to be the straw that breaks this camels back. |