Isn't there a passive in the tree that increases the duration by 2 seconds? I know there used to be, at least.

You mean that time how every time you've been on the other team from me I've won? Oh right, not going to mention that because then people couldn't feel all high and mighty. See, this right here is exactly my point. Claiming to be 'mature adults' is all well and good until you show your true colors. Most PvP'ers I know don't get so flustered over a little jab, but at the same time most that I know also don't have a god complex and think they're some high and mighty power. If anything has come out of this thread it's that you really need to get over yourself. Get something called a sense of humor and learn to laugh off stuff. Like really, if you get this angry over something on an online forum I fear to see how much you'd go off at someone for something in real life. Unless of course you're one of those types that feel empowered by being behind a keyboard. I suppose it doesn't matter, but thanks for letting me know just how petty and self absorbed you really are. it's nice to know which people have a stick they need to remove but likely never will.

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The only time I've ever spoken to you m8 you seemed pretty chill and you were in TS with us the other night, so let me say this right now. I'm a cynical person mkay? CLEARLY you all took my little comment on the first page way too seriously. To tell the truth it's been a while since I've seen someone get so flustered over a tiny little jab at them. Now with that out of the way, let's make it abundantly clear that my usual self wants to just go right on and make a snide remark, but instead I'm actually going to be the mature adult and not do that. Rather, like I tried to do in my last post, I'd like for all of us to get over each other and ourselves. You're all new faces and there's no reason for all of us to be going for each others throats right now. So whether or not y'all feel like you can be mature enough for that, I'm done with this pointless and, frankly, childish banter that we've all fallen into.

The thing with Scrapper is that the ability to do well with it, more than any other class or spec in the game, is directly linked to the knowledge of the player using it. You have to know how the person you're fighting works in order to maximize your ability to roll their damage as well as knowing when you can afford to heal (for instance; Shank Shotting a Warrior in place and then casting a Kolto Pack onto yourself from 9 meters away works well). There is a massive and very clear difference between a good Scrapper and a bad one.

Look mang if you wanna do your thing and run a cheesy comp that's on you and no one can stop you, but honestly defending it is just lame. Call me cynical but I know I really shouldn't expect much, if anything, of people in this game. Playing on Ebon for over two years where it's pretty much cheeselord paradise I've grown to the point where none of it surprises me. Teams stacked full of Corruption and AP's with tanks thrown in for good measure. Is it annoying that people always seem to play the easiest classes? Yeah. Is it in the least bit surprising anymore? No. In the end the only thing ya can do is just shake your head and move on. Though I will say that the whole removing the tank from the healer is a pretty hilarious concept when it's a PT. I mean when they have four different ways to shift focus and/or stay in range to be able to protect their whitebar is gonna be full long before those tools run out. Sins and juggs you'd have a valid point, but PT's? Leap, grapple, hydraulics, position swap. Pick your flavor and go to town. Regardless at this point we're just butting heads because you think you're perfectly justified in what you're doing and your holier-than-thou attitude and I'm not going to change my mind on y'all being a bunch of cheeselords for doing so. So this whole discussion is moot and it's really not worth any of our times to continue wasting our time to type all this crap out. For my .02 cents I think you're great players and having new faces around is nice, it's just the simple healer with the constant pocket tank that grinds at me. But hey at least there's GTA for that, eh?

Infiltration was wholly overshadowed during 3.x by Scrapper due to their burst being fairly close, however Scrapper had an advantage in pretty much every other category. It's also the exact same situation that we're in now with Infiltration's nerf to burst. In any case the roll is fine. It's a unique mechanic that actually requires the user to have some knowledge and awareness; a mechanic I'm quite fond of as the ability to survive and do well with this spec is directly linked to the knowledge and skill of the player. Wanna lock down a Scrapper? Root him. I can't tell you how many Concealment's I've killed on my Scrapper because I setup my Boiler and rooted them in place before detonating it. You'd actually be surprised how few people actually know that you can Triage Shank Shot's root away, and although it won't help you roll the detonation if the other person triggers it during the DCD of Toxic Scan, otherwise it's extremely useful.

Congratulations? You can do DPS playing a DPS modded gear set with Firestorm. Still doesn't make it any less cheeky running around playing never-move-more-than-5-steps-from-my-pocket-healer. But like I said, some people just want the game to be ez mode. If you're so good then go faceroll people in Lethality.

Then I want my Guarded to last for 8 seconds by default, with a heroic utility pushing it to 10 seconds.

That doesn't change that it's still obnoxious and, frankly, seeing 3+ healing sorcs on every team gets very stupid after a point. Go grab a Merc healer and faceroll sorc healers if you're so good. Sorc spam is about as old as pre-nerf op healers were during like pre-2.6 or so. I realize there always has to be a class/spec that's ez mode because BW can't balance but the difference is utterly stupid. On a side note guild/character names that are in all caps. no caps. or a mixture of caps and lowercase just irks me, but that's just OCD and grammar nazi tendencies when it comes to that thing.

Did I say that? I said you're being cheesy. But hey, if you're too afraid to queue as a FOTM sorc healer without your pocket tank to make everything ez mode then just admit it. That constant spam of people playing nothing that isn't FOTM gets very boring. I can't pull more than 2, maybe 3, games on my AP before I want to fall asleep at the keyboard because it's just not fun. I suppose I'm the only person in this game that actually prefers to play something I enjoy than what's FOTM OP because they want the game to be easy. I mean, I only see like 2 people playing Bodyguard, and even then Calico is the only good one I've seen. There's a very good reason every single person that heals does it on a damn sorc.

You main a Gunslinger. Learn to use your healing debuff. You don't even have to put any utilities into it to make it powerful, whereas Sentinels have to buff theirs.

Ebon Hawk says hello.

Call it more of disappointment. It gets very tiring to see every two bit random act like that so when I see people that actually stand out from the crowd also doing it, well, I'd like to have more faith in people to be above being cheesy.

Is a requirement to be a sorc healer that never leaves their pocket tank? /snark