How about

1x Plate
1x Repper
1x Hardner

On an armour tank that's enough EHP to survive a whole magazine volley of swarms passively, a hardner will allow you to sponge 2 before requiring a retreat and the repers mean you don't need to recall it everytime someond puts a dent in it.

You still get a decent amount of reps that means you don't have to be out of the fight long, you have longer to defend against suprise attacks.
Then in the high slots you fit an afterburner or scanner in 1 slot and an MCRU in the other. Then you use the remaing PG/CPU to fit the best weapons you can.
Et voila, now not only are you a decent tank dealing moderate amounts of damage, you are the spearhead for your force, providing cover and an FOB to yourmfellow mercs, who will actually appreciate your exsistance instead of just being another scrub tanker, looking to slauhter enemies for the sake of KDR and your own twisted enjoyment.

Quite true, I was going for the smart alec answer, the OPsaid no stacking.

And would you like to explain how Armor Repairer stacking is the only viable fit?

Or is anything that can be reasonably killed by it's weakness (Swarm Launchers, all other AV by extension) not considered viable?

You must be pretty new to the forums.

A great deal of HAV users used the reasoning "they should be hard to kill cause of their cost". Which was an actual argument.

Then after the the cost reduction and all around AV nerf, many HAV users have said "we should be hard to kill because we are a tank". Which of course is horse ****.

That's just a single comment of many similar ones made by tankers defending their reasoning of why a single asset should be able to excel at everything in the game, and rather easily, with the exception of hacking objectives, and why it should take multiple sources of damage to be taken out. (Some even claimed it should require 3-4 AV for instance).

Dig through the forums, especially posts made by the users Takahiro something and Speaker something or other. They are the cream of the idiot crop. It will then start to make sense.

Pretty sure this is what you said. I'm not saying that rep stacking isn't the best effective fit, but you were the one who said it was the only viable fitting. Care to explain why, or is my assertion correct?

Oh noes. A tanker called me a scrub. Whatever shall I do?

But then he'd cry about how someone who didn't spend as much SP as he did killed him.

Except unlike the media, what I say is usually true; and unlike most tankers, credible.

Your exact words, were:

Quick question, when was the Large Blaster designated "Anti-Infantry"? The Idea that a large cannon being designed as an anti-infantry weapon strikes me as something inherently unbalanceable. I'm not saying they shouldn't pack a punch against infantry just that I wouldn't expect a large gun to be as nimble at tracking the movements of small ground troops as accurately as they do.

I always thought they were the anti-shield av cannons (a niche that is under filled right now), and the small turrets were the obvious assumption for anti-infantry capabilities.

I don't know what you are smoking man. Proto die all the time to militia. That's a reasoning used by AV to bring attention to HAV bias about you feeling proto weapons should scratch you unless grouped in numbers.

How about you dig up posts where infantry have said a proto dropsuit shouldn't die to a militia. I'm curious if you can actually find one, for everyone I know that has played the game knows this to be a simple unavoidable fact.

The problem with this is prior to 1.7, infantry AV were able to take out said Maddie. Now it has the same Killing power, with insane fuckin reps AND Weaker infantry AV to "contend" with.

There's a good reason we've been complaining.

Wtf are you talking about man. The difference between proto dropsuits and militia are a hundred or two ehp, and a few select skills increasing in few percentages.

Do you REALLY want me to explain to you the difference between a proto AV dropsuit and a ******* mlt HAV?

OF course I care about the infantry AV side if it because it's fuckin unbalanced. Where have I said I don't care about tank vs tank you fuckin idiot?

I want tanks to stop being able to dominate infantry while they are roaming for tank kills. I want HAVS to have their main role be vehicles first, infantry second. If you want to solo the whole damn board, then so should your infantry counter part. If you want teamwork to take down your HAV, then fit your tank with AI turrets to give logical reasoning for it to take multiple AV.

The problem is people like you want to kill other HAVS and completely ignore the infantry existence until you run out of HAVS then start mowing the lawn over everything that can't counter you.

That's my fuckin problem with HAV and people like you. Now you know and can stop spouting horse ****.

Edit - and another thing. No infantry i ******* know said nerf the percentage of hardeners. We said remove the ability to stack them and be granted total invulnerability almost indefinitely, because that was NOT "windows of opportunity". Get your facts straight.

Wyrkomi Swarms, plus Damage Mods, plus the Proto Suit costs 150k+ each (anything less is ineffective and basically pointless).

Probably about half as much as a tanker's suit + tank but, then again, that tanker's basically got an extra life. Think of it as the necessary expense to wear what is essentially two suits. One (the tank) that has an insane amount of hitpoints and firepower compared to my AV suit, that you can jump out of just before it is destroyed and continue playing, and the other (your Dropsuit), that you can continue to be effective in once your tank is gone.

If I take even a fraction of the damage that your HAV does, I'm dead and respawning. You can take a ton of damage and hop out, still at full health and ready to continue fighting, at which point you should have zero difficulty finishing me off, since I'm standing there with a weapon that doesn't work against Infantry.

HAV pilots also have a ton more survivability compared to their AV counterparts. They have a ton of hitpoints, tons of firepower that can be effective against Infantry AND other vehicles, and are immune to one-hit killers like Snipers or SG Scouts, while the AV is vulnerable to everything on the field while their attention is on the HAV.

AV tend to die much more than the HAV pilot so, if I had to guess, I'd say that our overall per-match expenses are close to, if not more than, that of the HAV, while our end-of-match payout is significantly less.

When was the last time you saw an AV go 10-1, or 15-2, or 20-0 in a match?

When was the last time you saw a tanker top the scoreboard?

Here's a start.