Don't Nerf Magriders Buff Prowler and Vanguard

[thegreekboy]

Originally Posted by Micro

I don't think the Vanguard really needs any buff, but the Prowler needs some love.
I myself drive a Mag, and agility is what it is all about! That makes it unique! Not overpowered! It might seems overpowered, because it cannot rotate it's gun, and therefore Mag-Drivers automatically turn their back (the weakest armor is there) away.

Well theres also that thing where the difference in armor between the tanks is negligible, yet you can also dodge every shot of ours past 100m

[Mietz]

Originally Posted by thegreekboy

Well theres also that thing where the difference in armor between the tanks is negligible, yet you can also dodge every shot of ours past 100m

Theres also that thing that a I can mine mags in the rear consistently.

I've taken out whole tank-columns that way, especially at the Crossroads hill where they will just strafe forward-backwards.

Hotdrop with engineer/HA from ESF, the first 2 mags are free kills, if their friends notice, they will likely win, but most of the time they don't get it that the Mag next to them exploded not from Crown shelling but a mine.

[grimey]

Yes the Prowler has the most DPS if you can land both shots as it does about half the damage of a vanguard per shot meanwhile the vanguard has a 4 second reload and the prowler has a 2.5 second reload AND it has a .5 second delay between shots and lets not forget about having to reaim meanwhile all a vanguard or mag has to do is reaim while their tank is reloading.

If the Devs wanted they could increase the reload speed when in double fire mode to balance this out and make it take 3 seconds to reload and it would be the same fire rate.

And if these changes made it so after someone dumps almost 2k certs into anchor to get 48% reload speed and becomes a powerful stationary turret then maybe our unique ability would actually be worth getting instead of being some sort of situational waste of a utility slot that it currently is.

How many Vanguards get shield probably most of them I know if I was running one thats what I would get.

How many Magriders use magburner there's a ton of those too.

How many Prowlers get lock down?? like maybe 10% and its because it sucks and is very situational and completely negates the bonus of having the fastest tank by making it stay still.

Vanguard shield builds even more on its strength of having the best frontal armor and the magburner ands even more acceleration to their agility and lets them get into places other tanks can't reach.

Right now the devs are going to buff both the vanguard and the prowler and from what they have suggested they are going to increase the velocity of the vanguard and increase the damage of the prowler so now if I can land both shots ill be out DPSing even more if 2 prowler shots = 110% of one vanguard shell. And this is if they only buff the damage by 10%.

If they give double shot to prowler and slow down reload speed and keep the prowlers velocity and give the velocity buff to vanguard then the prowler will still out dps because the reload speed would be slightly faster and would hit as hard but the vanguard would have better damage at further ranges from the velocity making those far shots easier to make especially on mags.