WELL...............

By balance I mean, at equivalent levels I.E Proto vs proto - full good team vs full good team etc...

Of course the game still arbitrarily makes the gameplay unbalanced = because it stuffs nooberries into matches VS protostars like those Japanese train conductors cram people into trains in Tokyo!

You are not doing it right if you find AV is taking you out easily.<<(By this I mean you must be playing too carelessly)
Sure I agree, it only really takes 1 good forge gunner to make a tankers life misery, however adapt your tactics.

If close range with a blaster is not working out, switch to a railgun and snipe. You can take multiple forge rounds, that heavy only needs a single railgun round to the face.

I know its not as simple as that but lets not pretend that tanks are 'useless' they are far from useless.

Prehaps you shouldn't be trying to do what infantry can do then.
You are a highly mobile mechanized unit, I'm sure you can find something to do.

My ADS has plenty of roles I use it for.
The fact 1 skilled peson can kill 1 tank is called balance.

I have to agree. I have only limited experience using a tank in PC, the last one or two PC battles I have done more recently I was on the ground. In the past it was too easy for a tank to dominate any sort of AV not in heavy cover.
Every open area even now is still the tanks playground. Besides there are many team options available with a tank. Have you tried running with small rail gunners Takahashi Kashuken?

Come on bolt remember who you are talking to here.
Teamwork only exists in their dictionary as some twisted form of spam.

The thing is, if you look at the changes made between 1.6 and now, I shows just how overpowered just a few specific items were.

1) Hardener nerf (Vehicle Nerf)
2) Profciency nerf (AV Nerf)
3) AV grenade capacity nerf (AV Nerf)
4) Rep nerf (Vebicle Nerf)
5) RE damage (AV Nerf)
6) RE arm time (AV Nerf)
7) Damage Mod Nerf (AV Nerf)
8) Swarm Launcher Nanite cost (AV Nerf)

AV has recieved 2 buff, 1 to AV grenades, 1 to Plasma Cannons, if tanks were balanced loosing 10-15% hardener nerf and 10-15% rep rate bonus, would have made little difference next to all of the AV nerfs.

The fact they have says otherwise.