No sir, they would NOT need to be buffed. At all.

Swarms do more DPS to shields than forge guns do to armor. By almost double.

Make the person using them invulnerable to damage while they track and you've got a deal. There's already skill needed to use swarms. It's called "not dying before the missiles launch" and "getting off more than two volleys before the cowardly vehicle runs back to the redline".

Make the person using them invulnerable to damage while they track and you've got a deal. There's already skill needed to use swarms. It's called "not dying before the missiles launch" and "getting off more than two volleys before the cowardly vehicle runs back to the redline".

Make regular swarms not require lock ons, but require they track the vehicle they are aiming at manually.
Make a variant of swarms that work just as the ones now, but with either reduced damage or reduced speed.
Just a suggestion for your point and win weapon

What if you made swarms behave similar to a flight simulator?

They are fast and still lock on, but a hard bank can outmaneuver them.

that is already possible although you cant just bank and be safe you still have to fall back to avoid their flight distance

bank hard in the direction of your escape using your momentum to gain speed and lose the volley it is very risky as drop ships tend to fall at a very fast rate but this also allows you to easily outrun swarms even without an afterburner

Conceding isn't my objective. Education is.

There are some inherent problems with swarms that seem to be irreconcilable on the ps3. They are one of the weapons that sit on the razor's edge. One change here can make them insanely OP. But a tweak to THAT variable could render it utterly UP.

What I do agree with is the idea of "hold the lock" for many myriad reasons.

things that go wrong while "holding lock"

1. get sniped

2. get shotgunned

3. get killed by tank your trying to kill because you have to maintain line of sight with it.

4. get killed by everyone actually while trying to maintain lock.

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forge gun and plasma cannons at least let you pop in and out of cover in order to stay alive. who would use a weapon that demanded you leave yourself completely exposed?

the weapon also suffers delayed damage, and is ineffective on infantry. Thats alot to deal with for a weapon that only deals damage to vehicles.

if the swarms could be used against infantry, then maybe people would use them. but i hear dumb fire swarms were OP in beta. and guided swarms probably wouldnt be much better, especially when used by jumpy fits.

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of course though... the caldari in me would love a missile weapon that was anti infantry as well as aniti vehicle lol