Well Mercenary and Sorc are by far the most played and easiest to use/least skill needed (as if any class really takes skill). If played by a GOOD person it would be. 1) Powertech 2) Marauder 3) Jugg -tie 3) Assassin -tie 5) Rest as far as dps is concerned 500) Operatives; such a lolworth class that was never useful for anything after Biochem nerf; then they got roflstomped by Bioware while being easily the weakest class. Tanking. 1) Powertech 2) Jugg 3) Assassin Ranged dps 1) Sniper -burst cannot be beat 2) Marauder 3) Sorc -great sustained and AoE to top charts but not blowing people away 1v1 1) Marauder 2) Assassin

^This Minus Operatives. Operatives are all pretty much lol worthy and always have been once biochem stacking was taken out. The complete lack of ability to get back into combat once I CC them or walk slowly in a direction that is away from them make them the worst class in the game by far and easiest to kill...

I found energy to be to big of a concern with less than 40% critical rating. Personally I stack all power and crit once I got 100% accuracy. BHs can do this better since all of their attacks are tech and they can go 100% crit surge and power but that's another story.

If specced correctly you can literally spam everything as soon as possible and never run low... I just meant in the types of damage not that Leth Snipers can only cast 4 or 5 things before running out and they can cast indefinitely without suffering any sort of power concerns.

I would guess interrogation probe or trying to dot/proc explosives to regain energy. Even in Leth there are people who go heavy engi for the added energy regens rather than get weakening blast (IMO the cooldown is way to long and the damage too low to actually spec).

Lethality is like Sorcs, so many AoEs and spread damage they will always lead the charts. MM is like Tracer Missile, focused damage on a single person with high burst and easier energy management. If you like seeing big numbers at the end roll Leth, if you like to see big numbers each shot go MM. With that in being said I have never had a Leth Sniper out damage me unless I joined the match late... Skill > Spec.

Some times you win lots some days you lose all day. Last night I started my weekly before reset this morning and I was able to get 9 wins in less than two hours.

That is the same for all classes; if an assassin or ops catches you in a position where they can burst you down away from people who can help you they will. There are matches where I do get shut down but with as much CC as we have in addition to Ballistic Dampers, Entrench, and Shield Probe we have lots of survivability when the CC's are down. It is all about picking good defensible positions and picking good targets (No not always the 50% HP guy but rather the person with low defense or the person spamming tracer missile) and letting the guy with 1% hp run away to stand there and heal... Honestly if someone runs away with low HP they are hurting their team since they could just die and come back fully refreshed in less time. Unless they have water... Which is awesome BTW..

I don't know what you are talking about but I am hard as fook to kill if I don't want to die. Dieing is our fastest way to regen energy sometimes... Shooting down from the rafters in Hutball, from the top overhang in Civil war, from on top of the turrets in Civil war, or from behind boxes in Voidstar is a great way to stay alive since most people don't even see where you are at.

Like 15 or so matches. I could get impressive numbers but I never felt as though I was doing anything. Most of the people just got dotted and ran off doing other things and even with high crit rating I was having serious energy issues that I don't have as often in MM. Healers always seemed to purge or heal through everything I could hit them with and Cull is nothing without dots on the target. At that point it was like relying on SoS to get them down which is really a poor burst skill. It seems that telling everyone that Leth is the one and only pvp spec or pve spec is false. I did however hit 700k in Voidstar using Leth which was funny but again it was mostly aoe and low damage dots that never really took anyone low. To sum it up it is more like 300k in MM gets more accomplished than 400k in Leth.

So am I the only one still using Marksman and getting tops in damage, KBs, Solo kills, and all that other good stuff. I tried Lethality and yes you can get good numbers but it is by spreading it all out and you really are not killing anybody outside of Cull (if you still have energy to cast it). Personally I can always get the 300k medal and top the charts while doing objectives (killing the ball carrier and people on the door gives obj points), and considering that all of my damage is rotating one target at a time and not aoe + dotting up everyone, I believe that I am contributing more than when I did try leth. Stating that there is only one good spec and all others are useless is false. MM is still a good spec and can dish out tons of damage on a single character. Just pick your targets and CC the juggs, kill the healers, interrupt the DPS. Who cares that our damage is bad on tanks, there are few of them actually playing as tanks and they do little damage anyways. One thing we still excel at over Leth is that we can actually kill healers.

This. A good assassin is near unkillable and will rack up tons of kills. A good Mara will blow through a whole team with ease. A good sniper will... Well we can top dps but that's about it.

I prefer Bag of Disappointment I have gotten so many commendations and all I really need is relics and a helm.

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Wow like every single person have listed Sniper as the bottom of the barrel. I always seem to get tops or close to it and it is nice when people ignore me completely as I stack shots on them. Lots of what makes the class better or worse in pvp is how simple the class is to play and Mercenary and Sorc are easy mode compared to all others so even the bad kids can play with some skill since there is so little needed. Strongest - Sorc 2ND best - Mercenary Weakest - Marauder