As a dedicated AV Profinciency 5 I am discussed at the way CCP has handled the Nerf of the Swarm Launcher. It's no buff when you add it up. The least you could of done is keep the feeling of power when you release the swarms to at least give the player the same sensation of 6 swarms. It the feeling of power I miss....give it back. You nerfed my range, hit points and more...give it a rest.
I feel like I am a noob with my very first swarms, ca use that it what it feels like...not even as good as the CBR before the fix. You let Nova Knives take out tanks but not a swarm. WTF. Saw this in a PC...5 guys with Nova Knives took out a Proto Tank....REALLY DEVs...get a sense of balance here. That's like a knife takes out a tank but a bazooka can't. And you wonder why this ame is broken....you keep breaking it..... NOW PLEASE FIX IT and give me back that swarm launcher power feeling.

1. OP has been around as long as the rest of us. She's among the best support players in the game. She isn't a "slayer" but that doesn't make her a noob. You are a fool to attempt to degrade this merc's standing. From this we can gather that what you lack in balls and spine, you've not made up with wit and brains. Which begs question. If every merc is good at something, what are idiot-coward mercs best at doing? What are your strengths, Taki?

2. There's substantially higher risk of harm to user in running swarms than in running HAV or ADS. The swarm user's "easy lock-on weaponry" can't engage from distance; he has to get in close enough to punch the dragon. That involves huge personal risk before, during and after volleying swarms. Where the dragon feeds, his friends gather to pickup scraps, and an exposed swarmer is always ripe for picking. And what of the dragon? The dragon feeds at zero risk then scurries off at the first sign of trouble. Should he take damage, he is fully recovered and back to feeding within seconds.

TL;DR
HAV / ADS - High Reward / Low Risk
Schwarms - Low Reward / High Risk

How to Fix
HAV / ADS - Nerf recovery, such that when repelled they remain repelled for longer than a few seconds.
Schwarms - Buff range, such that the act of repelling might not doom the operator.

1. Positioning and survival require skill, risk, effort and planning. Get hit, run away requires none of these.
2. See #1.
3. Yes. Still paying high rewards at low risk; lengthened recovery would add meaning to being chased away.
4. Because I skilled into Swarms and believe that all weapons should be viable.
5. I'd add 50 meters in Delta, and -- if needed -- another 25-50 meters in Echo.

Getting off 3 volleys isn't the problem. The problem is how close we have to get to deliver 3 volleys. Where there's a vehicle there are also infantry. Always. A swarmer near infantry has extremely low odds of survival. Our reward? We might clear the airspace or scare away a tank for a few seconds; we might earn +75WP. More often then not, we will die. High Risk. Low Reward.

Let's contrast the above with an HAV or ADS, which can literally sit in or over an enemy position and farm until someone respawns with AV. When hit, the HAV or ADS might leave; if it chooses to do so, it is fully repaired within seconds. High Reward. Low Risk.

You cannot argue that Risk and Reward are balanced in either of the above scenarios.

LOL. We all know tankahiro's goal. It's called Uprising 1.7.

Why would you want to tier things and make things even worse? Tiercide bitches!!!!!!

It is not appropriate to compare infantry (which can be killed by anything) to vehicles (which can be killed by very few things).

Even with today's two-vehicle quota and improved installations, ADS+ADS or ADS+HAV or HAV+HAV more often than not result in entirely lopsided Ambush stompathons. How much more imbalanced would these matches be if prototype vehicles were introduced?

Assuming better hulls were introduced, how would you account/adjust for worsening balance in an already imbalanced setting?