@Mavado You do realize a decent sniper on your side or a railgun fit counters long range Av right?

You should know I'm referring to the gunner using the small railgun, not one as a main gun

Not really, forge gunners move slow and swarm users usually jump which helps predict where they'll be so you can hit them or I and the vast majority of everyone who's gunned for me is extremely lucky. Just because the description says that's it's main purpose doesn't make ir correct

Nice, I currently only use my gunloggi to take down other tanks and if the lav spam gets too high. My tank
"Respect My Authority " is used to sustai a lot of damage for a short time then retreat if possible

I shoot lavs because I like to kill the passengers then destroy the vehicle, and I usually do the same to dropships, especially when the doors are open

AV requires you to run on the field with a smg or pistol. Most people cannot succeed that way and will lose lots of money because they will never be on top of the game wp and therefore will not gain their money back. AV have to level up the av weapon of choice, sidearm of choice, and to have AnY chance vs infantry they also have to level sidearn secondary skills, primarily sharpshooter, and for pistols the extra ammo is a must.

I have yet to be able to solo Aldin's tank and when I hunt vehicles, as my choice of av goes, I die many more times then if I just run and gun ...and I get much less wp because there is a chance I don't get the last hit on the tank.

I love how the OP compared a total proto fit tank, which can kill infantry and vehicles alike and are more likely to survive multiple battles, to leveling a proto weapon without any supporting skills....a proto weapon is about 100k and the survivability of that suit would be next to nothing. There are always two sides to the story.

Do I think tankers have it easy? Not at all, but it isn't because of the sp need. It is because people have access to basis AV very easily...a guy going AR can use fluxes or AV nades and once the tank is dealt with change his loadout.

Honestly the best fix I can think of is reduce the dmg of militia and standard AV stuff. If everyone can have easy access to that stuff it shouldn't be so affective. What that does is make tanks weaker and less viable, but it also makes going AV less needed and less viable.

I'm pretty much a dedicated AV player and love nothing more than destroying all your delicious tanks but I have to agree that it is far too easy to skill into and the militia AV gear is far too powerful.

I love seeing militia tanks coming out because they're easy kills but well fitted standard tanks take a little more effort and advanced ones can be royal pain but I can still occasionally solo them with only ADV swarms, 2 complex DMG mods and some packed AV nades.

It doesn't take much effort for anyone to spec into effective AV gear and even a squad of militia AV could take down most tanks with good teamwork. Militia AV needs a massive damage nerf, like take a missile out of the swarm and halve FG damage but more importantly something needs to be done about the way swarms can be used - you should never be able to fire a missile mid jump, that's crazy ridiculous. Also movement speed needs to be drastically reduced or even completely removed whilst aiming with either SL or FG. This would mean that it would take a whole lot more skill to get into position and take some well timed shots to be effective, even though this would make my job a whole lot m