You better put on your gambling face before whipping out a prototank in an instant match.

Only CCP would price a full loadout higher than winning payouts. If you win, you get some money. If you lose, your ass winds up in the strip club.

It seems that it's impossible to take down a proper fitted HAV. They stomp infantry so quickly that often it's impossible to even get a single AV grenade out. But it doesn't matter much, because the HAV's can anyway tank 5+ AV grenades. The militia forge gun. The standard AV weapons are a complete joke. They can't take out a HAV by any chance at all. I once shot a full forge gun clip and threw 3 av grenades at an armor tanked HAV, and he must have laughed as he drove a little away, tanked the damage I had done in a few seconds, and killed me. Do I really have to spec up in AV to take out a tank? I don't have to spec up in anything to take out a protosuit, I've done that many times with a militia fit. But HAV's can take a ridiculous amount of damage from standard AV weapons, drive a little away, out of range of AV grenades, in about three seconds. After that he just tanks the damage as he shoots you. I often see people driving tanks with 15+/0 kd ratios.

AV weapons are supposed to counter HAV's and LAV's. Not be laughed at, as they just tank the damage and shoot you.

(militia HAV's are not thought of in this entry, only standard or higher)

Ah I see, you want the game to become just vets vs vets, who make up less than 10% of Dust's population, which is already alarming low as it is. Unfortunately, the game doesn't work that way, standard gear is suppose to be effective against everything in the game, thus skill being more important than gear. You can't break the game's fundamentals just because tankers want to be able to survive against proto AV.