You say that as if every SL user was always 400m away.

400 m away was a problem, invisible was a problemGǪ Running a 150k Isk AV suit and not being able to push back a militia blaster to keep them from killing my entire squad is also a problem.

"Push Back" I don't expect to kill a tankGǪ Im using tanker logic, using av as a deterrent and tanks being the killers. Read

First off, you realise the swarm launcher is caldari right? Its meant to be long range, about 250m would be about right!

Secondly, invisibility, poor rendering may have been a crutch, for some, but when people like Takio, Spkr spend their time in pub matches litterally charging into AV fire (in the redline) when over half the team is pounding away at you with mlt swarms, forges, locus, flux, av grenades and you can't tell me its not imbalanced!

And you did this in 1.5 for crying out loud!

Of course you wouldn't remember, it 2as pub stomp like any other, you and spkr literally charged into the redline! You didn't give a flying f'ck about the AV because despite the fact well over half the team was using it, it did almost no damage.

And now Proto AV isn't much more effective!

Just like these Tanks, AV shouldn't be FORCED to use teamwork!
Teamwork should be considerably more efficient and more likely to pull off, Teamwork should be desirable, not a necessity!