Re-cert are NEEDED NOW

I really hope there is no cap on the certs you can reset. It will give people who hit the cap some relief because they can spend excess certs on useless upgrades and just reset their certs later.

But I do not trust Sony.

think a 1/3rd of my 35000+ certs are in my MBT. It has had its good days and its bad days and as they stand now the MBT's are in the best state they have been in a long time. They have never been more balanced between the factions. The days of the magrider being 3 times as effective as the other MBT's is over... get used to it.

How would this work? I have earned well over 10K certs. If i re-certed, would I loose all of my certs over 10k?

They won't give cert resets. Whenever a new weapon arrives, everybody will reset their certs to purchase it instead of paying SC. Doesn't make good business sense.

Bingo, not to mention the fact that certs are infinite and don't stop even at BR 100

Really you never used a Mag did you?
It was NEVER "God mode" or even close...

Now its jsut a pathetic piece of junk that takes a beating from every stock lightning even if fully certed. It can´t kill anything, has 0 awareness of soroundings because of no turret, has **** DPS, **** velocity, **** bullet drop like hell, **** alpha damage... really there is nothing even romotly good about the Mag.
The Maingun allways sucked, it just feels like a Starshiptroopers Plasma bug vomiting big Plasma Bals out. Just without any Splash, accuracy or damage to talk about...

Oh yes and as TR i would be pleased with MBT Situation ro! Who would not like having a MBT with double the DPS of the others? That is also the fastest and can shoot down Aircraft better than a Skyguard?

If you do some research you will see the prowler used to be the worst just behind the vanguard, with the magrider literally 3x as effective.

Then they did some balancing putting the mag last followed closely by the vanguard and then the prowler out in front by a long way due to a bug.

Then they fixed the bug and now we have all 3 tanks relatively equal and the biggest decider in most fights is who engaged from the better position. There are simply far to many variables to say one is out in the lead by a long shot they all excel in certain situations and suck in others.

There will never be a perfect balance one tank will always be slightly ahead and another slightly behind, As it stands now the tanks are in the most balanced state we have ever seen. The balance of which tank is slightly ahead and behind will constantly swap with updates and minor changes.

You are either in denial or are not interested in seeing any sort of balance. Look around and you will see some official stats showing just how "god mode" (as you said) it actually was.

It was one line of numbers with no background what the numbers mean....

Atm the Prowler has double the DPS of the Mag with faster velocity, faster movement, less drop.

So from what I can understand is that you want your tank to tell you where everyone is at and to be able to 1 shot everything? You must be one of the worst mag users ever to think that the magrider is weak.

Bad Player = Bad Vehicle, Not the other way around.

Also to be on topic, Recerts would be nice in idea. But to be practical about it. If someone of my BR would recert, I would have 40k+ Certs to use up. And with that I can get everything in the game that I don't already have. If you made a mistake of getting something dumb early on then it was a mistake you have to live with.

Take a look at VS Zergs: 60% of all Tanks are Lightnings
Take a look at TR/NC Zergs: 90% of all Tanks are MBTs

Its just a favt that a Magrider has less awareness of souroundings as it has no Turret and the Main gun / POV is very much on ground level.
Also i don´t want a Tank that oneshots everything.
But don´t you think worst DPS, worst bullet volocity, worst bullet drop, slowest Tank, worst situational awareness, worst Gun mounting position are a bit much downsides for a Tank?
At least when the only upside is: It can strafe?

Also i do very very well in a Lightning... seems like its a bit about the vehicle too not about the driver huh?
Or do you want to say a Lightning is a "imba oneshotting pwner" Tank for noobs like me who don´t see how good a Magrider is?

A tank can't give you situational awareness for you. Stop saying its the tanks fault for you not opening your eyes.
Can I get some numbers showing the mag has "The Worste" Dps, Velocity, and bullet drop?
I simply don't understand what you mean when you say you have no turrets... The secondary?
And the ability to strafe is you're greatest upside, if you think otherwise. You're a fool.

Also vanguards are the slowest tanks in the game, so you can just cut that out.

I actually agree with you but one point is...you make a choice...spend certs and then what you spend it on gets nerfed so it really isn't what you spent the certs on.I know it happens very rare in this game but when it happens they should have the option to get the certs/sc back if the item they bought is no longer what they wanted...never been a fan of bait and switch tactics myself.

A Tank can harm you ability of situationa awareness by having you turn around your whole Tank instead of quickly spotting around with a Turret.

Yo can look up the Values of all cannons in the game now, no need for a fancy link. You have to use a calculator for DPS/DPM but at least velocity should be clear without any question.
Just make a VS Char and try it. You will see how horrible this gun feels when you take your first shot. Its miserable.

Strafing IS the only upside a Magrider has. Never said it would be a downside. Its just that its not worth much. You have all these Lock Ons you can´t evade with strafing and as the other Tanks got the Velocity buff you can only evade them at very very long ranges. At this ranges your weapons are useless because you have so mcuh drop, so bad velocity and your secondary has a trigger delay + worst velocity of all secondary long range guns. (And its a freaking Laser! Laser flying slower than a rocket???)

Also you did not answer my question how i can do very well in a Lightning if i am such a horrible Tank driver as you think i am.... ?

YOu forgot to add "...by me"

yeah seriously.

I'm not opposed to a cert reset, but you could simply spend a little money and get an XP boost. And as others have noted, SOE would rather you pay money to get certs rather than giving out a free cert reset......which means if there's ever a cert reset in the game, it will cost you $5 or something crazy. Besides, with the buggy service ribbons you get all kinds of extra certs for killing things.

And as someone with almost 9,000 kills using a Magrider, it's fine. My only complaint is that while I haven't played in a few months, SOE nerfed the damage done to backs of vehicles, so the maneuverability advantage the Magrider had is pretty much gone, but it's not a huge problem if you pick your fights properly.

Or.. We can pay for a cert reset, which I'm also fine with.

I'm not asking for a free cert reset, Hell - It could be $10-15. But I WANT a cert reset nonetheless.

If people continue spending $10-20 every time there's a new patch or so frequently, how much does it hurt SOE?

Rather, how many people do you know that will be able to keep that up just for a respec for one or a few items?

Offtopic: When did this turn into a MBT discussion? Take it somewhere else.

Ontopic: I'd love to have the cert reset, back before VR I bought a bunch of infantry and vehicle weapons that I never ended up using because they were crap or got nerfed hard (Haymaker*, MSW-R, m-14 banshee, kobalt on flash, HE turret on prowler, ATA Missiles), along with a bunch of attachments and suit upgrades (Silencer on a couple guns, adv shield capacitor, ext)

* Technically the haymaker didnt get a nerf or was crap but for some reason the hit detection for it has been junk for months and I've stopped using it, even though I loved it before the bug.