To be fair, i watched your stream for like 5 minutes and I knew you were bad.

Well, Pyro "tech" has a lot of of the incendiary tech weapons. Thermal Detonator is a bomb for instance, and incendiary missile is well, a missile, or Super Heated Rail. Its more focused on the "tech" aspect imo, makes sense in my head at least

Win. /5char

I tried to find his quote but he must have ninja edit it. Shame I was hoping for a good laugh, although watching his videos of him taking 5+ seconds to throw the ball is good enough lol

Because he's prolly seen your stream. lol. I watched it one time and I was looking at his Hotkeys... Its hard to believe that you can be on a competitive team and refuse to bind the huttball key. That wasn't the only thing I saw that was wrong with your playstyle either... Powertech really is the class that makes bads look good. So easy, even a caveman can do it!

70% vs 90% is negligible against almost any target. You get more bonus damage on literally all of your attacks with +3% aim. It totals out to be around +40 bonus damage i believe, when you are full war hero. You wont notice your railshots damage go down and youll notice all of your other abilities damage increase. I havent done any "tests" but I like how it makes my stats page look and my railshots still hit just as hard. You might see a slight boost against fully armored targets, but in that situation most of your damage is coming from your elemental attacks anyway since railshot can be shielded or reflected.

I'd give up 6% crit on fire effects and 20% armor pen on railshot for energy rebounder and thermal detonator. 8/2/31 is your best bet for burst damage, although 8/6/27 (which is a PVE spec) does the highest DPS of any spec. DPS vs Burst, pick your poison.

I like 8/2/31

I remember you saying something about the highest dps you had seen in a warzone was around 850 by a DPS assassin in one of your other posts. I dont normally screenshot my damage or dps in warzones but after noticing the number i figured i'd share it with you. http://i49.tinypic.com/6sds8x.jpg 8/2/31 pyrotech EDIT: Heres a ranked game I did earlier, pyrotechs so funny lol http://i45.tinypic.com/5bv0pi.jpg

Good thing my whole guild is jumping ship before 1.4 comes out Huge rebalancing should have been done during 1.3 so we had the whole preseason to adjust to it. Letting season 1 go live with massive changes to all classes is just another epic fail imo. Even if guild wars 2 is horrible itll still be better than this game by a long shot. Can't wait!

On my 2300 rated team we have a DPS operative who is VERY useful. We make him guard nodes LOL. He hates it xD! If you want a spot on a ranked team as a DPS Op then practice your 1v1 skills against every class. If you can beat everyone 1v1 then you will find plenty of spots on ranked teams. Guarding nodes is still rating and coms my friend! 2 Assassins 2 Pyrotechs 2 Healers(they rotate) Marauder Operative <- See there is a spot for an operative, sometimes two!(if one heals)

I play a powertech and a marauder, i could use some obstacles this game has gotten stale lol

If anyone can show me that AP can do well in ranked its you. Keep doing your thing bro. I've seen some amazingly fast kill times with two pyrotechs but I can definitely see where you're coming from on the guarded healer topic. Best of luck to you. Don't get me wrong I am still skeptical and want to see your results, let me know how your ranked endeavors progress!

This makes me want to level up a dps shadow lol

Your screenshots also support my claim. I'm no stranger to losing high dps matches either don't get me wrong, I am just convinced that single target burst is more important for ranked play becaus AoE damage can be healed through and tends to be misleading on the score screen.