Well, it comes as no surprise. I have compared our tacticals to my Sin and we got the short straw again unless someone can correct me. You can swap tacticals out-of-combat so sins are using their "2 charges stealth out" one, then switching to a "heal to full at 20%" or "buffed autocrit DPS" one leading to 50k singl crits not including the lead-in damage.
For us, double Holotraverse, the buggiest teleport in the game so we now get two chances to launch out of the map, or requiring perfectly flat ground with no obstacles and requiring no impairing effects unless you talent for it. We get "acid blade" buff - which does at most 15k. We get the "Velied strike" buff that changes our opening rotation as the backstab buff has to wait for its CD or you wait to use it after Volatile / Veiled, and forego its stealth/position buff.
Not exactly burst, is it? Since we wont hit 50k unless both Vol and BS crit. With the nerf to the crit yield curve, we now top out at sub-45% crit chance at 306 + augments so we doubly reduced our chance of that scale of damage, considering the loss of set bonus autocrit.
Now I hear what you are saying: "wah" or "L2P"
Its just that I have played my Sin now and it is everything Op used to be when we had knockdown on backstab at a competitive crit burst yield, combined with a fast ticking poison with some teeth (Acid blade). That heal Tactical switch on stealth-out is powerful, and awesome.
Okay, so you think "Debilitator set, stunlock FTW" but Sins have had double hardstun forever so again, no advantage, especially in Whitebar Land. I'm looking at you Ranked.
All you really need to do is see how often folks are getting globalled now ( and that rate is measurably up) and then see how many more burst combos you need to get your opponent from 100-0.
I may be wrong, I may be a bad player, but all things equal from the last patch, I feel diminshed relative to other specs I play. Same old story, yes?
I dunno, I guess we will see how it plays out in time, but I'm going back to my Sin until then, its good old fashioned stealth burst fun, now with heals.
Ciao for now.