I'm not a dedicated AV, but i've tried the ADV variants off all the AV weapons (except the plasma cannon, is the PC AV???)
Changing efficiency levels would balance the situation:


AV grenades

They should be there to kill LAV not HAV but they are very good against HAV because they are slow.
So, change the efficiency of AV nades

• on HAV 50%
• on LAVs 150-175%

If you fly a DS so close to be attacked by AV nades you deserve it and half of the time the AV nades bounce on DS.
Packed AV nades should completely loose their homing ability, the other two types are fine.

Swarm Launchers

The most ignobile AV weapon on the battlefield, it requires no skill, its fire and forget mechanic suck.
I would not change it's efficiency values, but i would change the way it works:

Lock on version (the version we have now)

• Decrease the range of lock on
• Don't let shoot the second swarm if the first is flying
• Consider "Z" value as distance too

Manually drived version

• Loger range, if you are good at driving the swarm, you will hit the target
• No time to lock before shooting
• Higher efficiency on everything, except dropship, they already have their problems.

Forgeguns

Nothing to say, except i would give the assault variant 1 less bullet in clip. (3 instead of 4)
They are powerful but at least they require some skill to be used.

Weapon damage modifiers

I would not let the damage modifiers affect the values of AV weapons, they already have an high amount of damage.

I'm not a dedicated AV, but i've tried the ADV variants off all the AV weapons.

Yes you have no AV experience. so do not post unless you are a vehicle user. Most of your ideas are bad.

Swarms are more for Aircraft

After this, i can stop reading, you have less experience in AV than me.

i mean a swarm like you have now, with 4,5,6 missiles per shot, same amount of damage but guided by the player, with no scope.
The splash damage is laughable, it would be difficult to use it against infantry, except for snipers,

I think larger maps, higher HAV health, and higher AV efficiency against LAVs will do the trick.

Larger Maps:
Dropships are currently confined because of railgun tanks. If a railgun tank sits in the redline, he can usually cover beyond the main outpost on the map all while remaining entirely safe. If the maps were large enough that the red line wasn't within sight of the closest objective, redline snipers and HAVs would no longer be an issue. This does, however, create a new issue which we will explore in the next section.

Give HAVs an extra slot and the PG to use it:
Assault dropships can rip any tank to pieces if he is out of the redline and not under sufficient cover like the warehouses on line harvest or the half-pyramid on manus peak. Giving HAVs an extra slot and PG would enable them to either increase their buffer or increase their reps. Either of these would give them a stronger platform against ground-based AV, and would give them time to seek cover from an aerial assault. Otherwise, people will start griping about how OP Pythons and Incubuses are, which is laughable considering they can be 2-shotted by a rail tank in their current form.

Increase ground-based efficiency against LAVs:
Seriously, who wouldn't support this (other than the murder taxi drivers themselves)?

EDIT: I should note that I'm a Python pilot. I continually see attempts to "balance" AV, but it's really only ever balanced against tanks. Nobody ever thinks about dropships, and winds up screwing them in the process. This solution is intended to help both dropships and HAVs. It'll also help dropships find a better role as they are intended for transport and aren't currently utilized as such.

Why don't you work for CCP?

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