If you fumble across the goal line and the other team picks up the ball it's called a safety....or a touchback....one of those.

It's called a safety, and it's allowed, get over it.

This is my build here I don't care about slowing them....and I seem to do more damage....I don't really heal...ever

Tracer, Tracer, Tracer, HS, Tracer, Tracer, Rail Shot At some point in there there is a possibilty of a rapid shot.... thats the rotation ladies and gentlemen. Tracer Tracer Tracer assuming all crits is 9k at least for me in 4.5 seconds....I don't always get three crits....so lets assume 2 hits and 1 crit which is normal....so 1700, 1700, 3000. Hs crits for 4k and hits for about 2500 normally So 1700, 1700, 3000, 2500 (because it doesn't crit for me that often). So in technically 4.5 seconds I have done 8900 damage to you...half your health....4 global cooldowns....if you stayed with me for that entire duration....you've probably done anywhere to 7-9k damage to me assuming you have the same gear as me....I really really don't see a problem with this. if I manage to get my entire rotation on you....and you didn't A)target me B) los me, or C) interrupt me....at all while I built 5 stacks of rail shot on myself and a unload proc.. You don't engage me...you die....you try to run around me I turret...I don't even keyboard turn...as I am casting towards you....it autoturns me...I don't have to do anything, you make me move...I will die...you los me and interrupt me...you will kill me ultimately...assuming all gear equal again. We don't have very much survivability if you don't let us cast....rotate your stuns on us....and your interrupts. Don't let us cast at you....and you will beat us handily every time. Bioware....I would love some mobility in my spec....but you gave it to pyro....it makes me sad....but I am okay with it ultimately

^ this! I love killing people who are terrible players....because I myself is a terrible player....but I get owned hard by people with any real skill.

I've won alderan civil war, and voidstar...and even huttball, even though the opposing team outgeared us...out killed us, out damaged us, and out healed us. A good strategy trumps gear...good teamwork trumps gear. That being said, if you get people on your team that think they are the best player ever and don't know a good strat when you hear one...you end up getting crushed because they all think it's the gear that is crushing them...not the strat. Then you get people like you complaining on the forums that gear is the issue. Sorry, it might be a small part of the game that all things equal may put the opposing team to win....they might also have a better strat though....which means you are gonna get beat no matter what.

TM is a means to an end....I crit around 3k on tracer missiles....I crit 4k on hs missiles....I crit around 3500 with my rail shot.....and it procs unload which does a nice bit of damage too...it truly is a means to and end... Considering that I get critted for 3-5k from everyone else...I would think that its pretty balanced.

I like my server....I really do, ilum I think on my server is played just as it should....there are times when the republic out number us...and take center...and there are times when we outnumber them...and take center...it's kind of seesaw back and forth....though the most I've ever seen in ilum at any time might be 50-60 people tops....and thats about equal both republic and empire....it's great

As a damage dealer...its not my job to score, I work to control the middle and grab the ball and throw it to the sorc's or assasins...or a tank....then stay in the middle and kill anyone who stays there. In Alderan Civil war, I hold whatever side I am assigned to, or attack someplace that is weak....I die a lot here... In voidstar...I don't set bombs....I clear the people who are trying to defend the bombs...so the people who want to set the bomb can set the bomb...I am not necessarily after "medals" but they come...because I do what I perceive is my job.....I enjoy being the "distraction" the one in the middle taking the hits...because those around me will do the objectives...and it's better if they are all on me while this is happening.

If there are three people on you? you should die.

Did you know that when you return to medcenter on the sides and type /stuck you'll be transported right back where you died?

What are you talking about?!? seriously? our self heal isn't that "great" at most it'll do 4k...typically people can do 4k damage in 3 seconds....we can't just spam it...because it costs a lot of resources....grav round (tracer missile in my case) is powerful yes...but I die just as well to sages and ops and snipers...because we have to turret to cast....mercs and commandos (marksman and arsenal spec) have 0 mobility, and very little survivability if you get us 2 on one....in a 1 on 1 fight we might be able to hold our own...but it really is a coin flip...plus we get 0 interrupts...and our stun is on a long cooldown (in pvp sense) so is our knockback. Sounds like you can't pvp and have no idea that los'ing us is the way to go.

Does it "need" macros? No Though it would be nice to have them. BUT OH GOD LET ME CUSTOMIZE MY UI!!!!!! Seriously, I've discovered I get a crapton more fps with your ui off, let me make my own ui that is more optimized than yours....please please please.

I am for a personal damage meter or personal combat log to parse....I don't like to see in groups recount spam because someone got 20 dps more than you and think they are so elite. A damage parser to find out what killed me would be awesome, I don't care what the other guy is doing as far as dps, even in hard/nightmare modes, because if they are doing hard/nightmare modes (assuming you don't pug) they are doing their best, especially if they have a personal recount and are a min/maxer. But a personal optimization would be handy. And the arguments for a recount that you can see what everyone is doing is based on an idea that it will make "you" do better....if you are in a guild doing guild runs, assuming you know all of these people, a personal recount would do just the same, when the raid leader asks....how did you die...with a personal combat log...you can see how you died..simple matter. Also, I just have my interrupters call out their interrupts in vent, in a set order, in fact most of them have their mumble press to talk as their interrupt for raid time just to make it quicker. So you really don't need that part. a threat meter would be nice in some way, but it's not mandatory in my mind...if I have aggro, I can see that I have aggro and the tanks can see that I have aggro because the mob/boss is facing/running towards me. I get that if I ask what a particular dps is doing they might lie to me, but that is okay, because even if I think they aren't doing very well or doing something wrong, I am watching them a lot more closely. But I trust my fellow raid members to the most extent that they are trying. If they aren't, well that will show up in other ways, dieing first/constantly, not dps'ing the right mob/adds/mind traps. All will be revealed if you pay attention. But then again I fraps my boss fights, just to be able to go back over them to maybe see something I missed...ithat is, if we don't down him that night.

actually he stated it in a blog post....even put the word Your in bold.