I'm running blaster tanks; not much to do with them in the redline.

I've been presented with every lame excuse and trash talk trolling from tankers calling me ****, and that all the AV i've been up against are ****.

Truth is i've run 30+ matches queuing random pubs and I've lost one tank to a combination of AV and an enemy tank. That's the reality.

I did it for lols and to prove to myself what I suspected. And I have. More so that I even suspected. Proto tanks are the biggest crutch in the game.

Yeh im not rising to that troll post. nice try. BTW i didnt imply tanks dont retreat to the redline, you created your own meaning there... not that you need the redline in any map with a large socket theres plenty of cover and/or distance.

I've run 4 matches with a gunner i know, the rest were just blue dots who occasionally kill infantry but mostly take potshots at railgun turrets. with 2 infantry i knew it would be proper ******* lol, god mode plus.

As well as running tanks on my alt im doing other battles on foot and noticing players have specced into tanks and are going 20-0 etc... players I recognise and can kill as infantry. This is encouraging as it means its reaching FOTM status so a nerf should be incoming, hopefully soon.

Sure assault could 1v1 a heavy, but 4 v 1 that heavy and that heavy is down without risk to us. Same thing applies. .

love the way you have to shift to an analogy about infantry suits becasue stating 'Sure 1 proto AV could 1v1 a Proto tank' is blatantly stretching it.

I'm pretty sure the metrics will back me up and proto tanks will get nerfed, just a question of time really.

***** you serious? proto tanks are already expensive and are only good with 2 hardeners, if you run one, well, you probably won't be able to kill your attacker.

if anything, blasters need a accuracy buff.
i also find i'm the only one pulling out tanks & ADS's.

all decent players have a commando with swarms

love the way you have to shift to an analogy about infantry suits becasue stating 'Sure 1 proto AV could 1v1 a Proto tank' is blatantly stretching it.

I'm pretty sure the metrics will back me up and proto tanks will get nerfed, just a question of time really.

Wait,someone mentioned weak spot? Tank have weak spots?

You do realize in order to profit off of that HAV, you have to pull at least a 5 game ZERO loss streak (assuming a avr. gain of about 200k), right?

I did the event with a 40m sp alt and specced gallente havs.

About 15 matches later and I havent lost one in battle. Compared to the frustration of runnning AV it's an absolute joke how little risk there is running a proto tank in pubs. This from a tank noob.

Some matches it seems half the enemy team has switched to swarms, which do absolutely FA damage to my perma-hardened fortress and are trivial to drive away from. Been a bit more wary of forges and PLC if they get on roofs, once even got me down to 50% armour. So I drive somewhere they can't shoot me.

I've been a FG on a roof staring down at the battle taking the odd pot-shot at infantry and hoping the tank comes back into sight before I either run out of ammo die of boredom get sniped or fall off and take my chances in a gimped fit vs a pack of angry scouts who I shine up as a red dot for all to see while they pick their moment to shoot me in the back.

I've been a swarmer in my gimped fit running and running to get in range to fling a couple of AV nades and lock a full clip onto a tank only for it to disappear round a corner and then see three or four red dots home in on my position.

But now i'm a tank. I kill a few, some swap fits to kill me, I drive round the map grinning and picking off the weak and unwary, I get a fright when my shield disappears, I drive some more, maybe something else hits me. If so I drive off, mostly nothing else happens so I carry on as above.

It's absolutely confirmed what I suspected, there is a massive imbalance.

Cue tanker alts pretending ot be AV gods claiming to pop 10 proto tanks before breakfast.

TL:DR?

I've been AV since beta, it's hard.

I've been a tanker since Tuesday, it's a piece of ****.

Bunch of hypocrite assholes who think it's balanced to die once every 10 battles just because their tank cost 1M+ ISK. ISK should not be the only balance factor. Right now it is.

Anyone with a brain will never lose its proto tank unless 6+ guys decides to use proto AV and focus him...
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You're a wank.