active armor hardeners 2x are a must for armor and should always be fitted and a lower tier plate would help you fit them.

I created an alt a few days ago and decided to spec into Gallente HAVs. I transfer 5 million isk from my main to get started.

At first I thought tanking was a piece of cake (I was farming kills at the academy), then reality set in after I got int a real match where people could actually kill me. I didn't have a problem with being blown up because I am new at it . I had a problem with not being about to turn a profit. The price of tanks is super high. I now see why tankers complain about being blown up. If you get blown up 2 times, that's a 1 million Isk loss. People earn about 240,000 per game which means you need to play 4 games to make it up.

I never new how much I was costing tankers when I blew up their tanks. This experience has made me feel sorry for tankers.

I absolutely don't support nerfing AV (I'm a forge gunner), but CCP should lower the price of vehicles. This would help both AV players and tankers.

AV players will have more targets to take out, and tankers will be able to turn a profit.

My fit for anyone interested was:

80GJ Compressed Blaster
20GJ Scattered Blaster x2
Militia Active Heat Sink
Militia Powergrid Expansion Unit x3
Heavy IG-L Polarized Armor Regenerator
180mm Reinforced Steel Plates.

Some tips on how best to fit my tank would be appreciated.

My first tip would be to lose the compressed Blaster. Scattered or Stabilized should be the only ones you're looking at, more damage or more range.

That's your fit on a Madrugar? Blaster's your first mistake if you're new to it.

2 AT-1 ADV Cycled Missile
1 Particle Accelerator
1 Heavy IGL Repper
1 Beta Powergrid Expansion
2 Carapace Armor Hardeners
180mm Reinforced Nanofibre plates

You're welcome

So out of all the times you couldve specced into HAV, you chose to spec during an event where AVers are rampant everywhere to devour every installation known to mankind.

I created an alt a few days ago and decided to spec into Gallente HAVs. I transfer 5 million isk from my main to get started.

At first I thought tanking was a piece of cake (I was farming kills at the academy), then reality set in after I got int a real match where people could actually kill me. I didn't have a problem with being blown up because I am new at it . I had a problem with not being about to turn a profit. The price of tanks is super high. I now see why tankers complain about being blown up. If you get blown up 2 times, that's a 1 million Isk loss. People earn about 240,000 per game which means you need to play 4 games to make it up.

I never new how much I was costing tankers when I blew up their tanks. This experience has made me feel sorry for tankers.

CCP are trying to balance tanks vs AV using ISK. It can't possibly work for both pub matches and PC - someone is always going to be unhappy.

CCP are trying to balance tanks vs AV using ISK. It can't possibly work for both pub matches and PC - someone is always going to be unhappy.

Great, then charge a helluva lot more for Avnades, forge guns, and swarms. Make the militia swarms do very little damage to a full grown tank, and make it so an AV grenade doesn't track my movements.

If they dropped the price of tanks by 50%... could you imagine the tank spam? Oh my.. the pub tank spam lol.

But then maybe there would be a reason for dedicated AV players in every match as well! To keep down LAV murder taxis and to suppress/destroy HAVs.

At this point I totally support a reduction in price on tanks.

Maybe later on they can make something like a 'Behemoth-Class Attack Vehicles" which requires 3 people to drive it (one driver, one gunner, and one vehicle module user) and these things can just be beastly nasty crazy as they will require coordination and 3 skilled pilots.

If they dropped the price of tanks by 50%... could you imagine the tank spam? Oh my.. the pub tank spam lol.

But then maybe there would be a reason for dedicated AV players in every match as well! To keep down LAV murder taxis and to suppress/destroy HAVs.

At this point I totally support a reduction in price on tanks.

Maybe later on they can make something like a 'Behemoth-Class Attack Vehicles" which requires 3 people to drive it (one driver, one gunner, and one vehicle module user) and these things can just be beastly nasty crazy as they will require coordination and 3 skilled pilots.

That's your fit on a Madrugar? Blaster's your first mistake if you're new to it.

2 AT-1 ADV Cycled Missile
1 Particle Accelerator
1 Heavy IGL Repper
1 Beta Powergrid Expansion
2 Carapace Armor Hardeners
180mm Reinforced Nanofibre plates

You're welcome

He doesn't have the SP for that. All I'd say is swap out the compressed blaster for the scattered.

My AV suit already costs 130k.....

He doesn't have the SP for that. All I'd say is swap out the compressed blaster for the scattered.