Ok so with the news that we are getting our tanks back I'd like to give a word. With these new tanks, we will see a new load of swarms everywhere. I personally think that AV will need to be looked at.

We can all agree that swarms are easy to use weapons. They are the most common form of AV. I'd like to get people out of the habit of using only swarms and push them to use forge guns and plasma cannons.

Here's what I propose.

Swarms- do not touch them they are good as they are.

Forge guns- increase damage by 10-20 percent so that they can compete with the enforcers/mauraders. The advantage here would be more damage/chance of taking out tanks at the cost of complexity (aiming and stuff as opposed to the swarms point and shoot and forget).

Plasma cannon- I also feel these should get a big damage buff. These will be shield WRECKERS. Can compete against caldari vehicles.

Vehicles- I think that with these stats, all vehicles should get a 5-10 % hp increase. This will keep swarmers from easily destroying vehicles to pushing them to use a weapon of higher damage.

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If you think Swarm Launchers are the most popular AV weapon due to their ease of use, you're heavily misinformed. The real reason why they're so popular is because only 1/5 of the classes in DUST can actually FGs, and PLCs while great in the right hands aren't good in most situations.

Truth be told, most players would rather invest into Swarm launchers so that they can have an AV rig as opposed to investing SP into another Dropsuit that they would rarely ever use along with the FG. That aside, there are already plenty of benifits that FG users have over SLs, such as:

• Increased Range (2x)
• Anti-Personnel Capabilities
• Increased Anti-Shield Efficiency
• Ability to pre-spool behind cover
• Near-Instantaneous Travel Time.
• Ability to hit targets partially behind cover.

Giving all vehicles a 5-10% HP buff would also be accompanied by a 5-10% buff to all AV weapons as they're balanced around the current vehicle eHP, thus defeating the purpose of the buff. Not to mention that a 10% increase in vehicle HP would also cause balance issues between turrets and Vehicle vs. Vehicle combat.

Not even going to bother wasting keystrokes explaining why a 20% damage buff to FGs is broken, as I'm sure one of the many vocal ADS Pilots will do so for me.

edit: I like how you say that Swarm Launchers are fine and don't need an adjustment, yet you want all vehicles to be increased for the specific purpose of nerfing Swarm Launchers.