Most pilots will stick to it i believe

SL users will drop it in droves, same with AV nades

Depending how hard the FG gets hit that too could get dropped since the HMG is meh

I'm waiting for Amarr vehicles.

STD and ADV swarms with no damage mods (essentially 80% of the swarm population) are gonna give up trying to take on decent tanks until they reach proto in both skills.
With the swarm range nerf and possible FG optimal range nerf, there might be more dropship pilots that are uncontested in the sky unless they choose to fly within 150 meters of AV.
Tanks will still pub stomp only having to worry about multiple proto AVers and other tanks.
LAV will still LAV.

of course that is the only purpose of this character to drive tanks

Yep. I'm hoping there will be a really big push to get racial symmetry with all suits and vehicles in the next few months. That way people can focus their training on the race/role combination they actually want instead of skilling into a proxy. It's going to take time to get it all balanced, but DUST will feel a lot less like a beta at that point.

I'll just stick with Light Vehicles, coincidentally light vehicles are getting the most out of the new stats.

No more Insta-death AV grenades! No more insta-death swarm launchers!

My methana finally has a chance! I'm so excited!

but we better get a ******* vehicle respec.