*Anyone who has any idea what they're actually talking about.

As in people with experience both flying a lot and shooting DS with a FG?
I know there's got to be a few of you, I just want to know who...

Yes, they're totally balanced. If you're flying low enough and SLOW enough for a forge gunner to hit you with a charge shot, well too bad. You hover for a second or less, everyone bails and you burn it out of there and hug the terrain. Just because you want to fly in at 3000 feet, don't mean you should. ;)

They're not exactly easy weapons to line up on the dropship pilot who knows how to jink and weave. Especially the lower meta-level ones.

To do a dropships job such as picking someone up and transporting them requires slowing down and making yourself a target. The frank truth is that a dropships best method of survival is to not do its job.

And gigatron, doesn't matter what dropship you use, they all die easily to forge guns.

I use both fg and DS and i do think the forge gun is easy to lead and shoot a dropship down at a safe range
I fly proto incubus and Prometheus and forge are always annoying when im hovering at node points assisting the team

Threats to dropdhips are
installations , forgeguns , tanks , kamakazi pilots , and mass drivers

Yes mass drivers are effective vs dripships i was providing a pickup and a mass driver messed my dropship up bad before i could bug out

Everything is a threat to pilots but the worst one of all is that pesky Disconnection from server
Im down 6 ships for this ( not my fault )

But all pilots keep it up i have a feeling they will sort us out soon

I use both fg and DS and i do think the forge gun is easy to lead and shoot a dropship down at a safe range
I fly proto incubus and Prometheus and forge are always annoying when im hovering at node points assisting the team

Threats to dropdhips are
installations , forgeguns , tanks , kamakazi pilots , and mass drivers

Yes mass drivers are effective vs dripships i was providing a pickup and a mass driver messed my dropship up bad before i could bug out

Everything is a threat to pilots but the worst one of all is that pesky Disconnection from server
Im down 6 ships for this ( not my fault )

But all pilots keep it up i have a feeling they will sort us out soon

You forgot RDV's

I use both fg and DS and i do think the forge gun is easy to lead and shoot a dropship down at a safe range
I fly proto incubus and Prometheus and forge are always annoying when im hovering at node points assisting the team

Threats to dropdhips are
installations , forgeguns , tanks , kamakazi pilots , and mass drivers

Yes mass drivers are effective vs dripships i was providing a pickup and a mass driver messed my dropship up bad before i could bug out

Everything is a threat to pilots but the worst one of all is that pesky Disconnection from server
Im down 6 ships for this ( not my fault )

But all pilots keep it up i have a feeling they will sort us out soon

You forgot RDV's

Don't pick people up in the middle of combat if you can help it, don't land in a contested area. Tell the squad your ship alone costs more than the whole squads fit and you ain't going to risk it. Pick up your squad from right under your MCC if you can and fly in LOW, have them bail BEFORE the target area in a place they can group up and organize, and then burn out of there. Once the ground team has started causing trouble, use them as a distraction and make rapid passes. Don't try and linger over an area like it's pre-Chromosome. You'll just get shot down.

Militia dropships are **** and cant dodge forge very easily. That is where the QQ comes from. Sink some SP into it and you'll see the difference.

I believe that the forge gun is one of, if not the most balanced, weapon in the game. Low ammo, long charge time, only heavies can carry it, no ADS, the most powerful one has a root, good damage when you hit, and weak against armor. To be perfectly honest I find your crusade against the forge gun ridiculous considering not even all of the weapons and drop ships are in the game yet. Also considering that I have seen very few actual good forge gunners in matches that I have played and now that the Dire suit is gone and lots of people specced out of heavies I don't know why you are complaining so much about them.

Is 7 million enough SP, because I didn't see the difference

Forge guns are not weak against armour, if I remember right there a hybrid weapon. And I wouldn't say it has a long charge up time, look at he assault variant.

Forge guns are not weak against armour, if I remember right there a hybrid weapon. And I wouldn't say it has a long charge up time, look at he assault variant.

That's funny because armor tanks are really hard to kill with just a FG. Sometimes I would put all 4 rounds into it and it would just rep right back up to full armor. Now shield tanks better run away because I eat those for breakfast.

That's funny because armor tanks are really hard to kill with just a FG. Sometimes I would put all 4 rounds into it and it would just rep right back up to full armor. Now shield tanks better run away because I eat those for breakfast.

Are you talking about actual tank tanks?

I'm talking about anything that is using the actual tank type. Tanks and drop ships. Not sure what the gallente drop ship is called, but those will survive more often than the caldari ones against me. But EX-O AV grenades kill all drop ships.