Tracer Missile Education

You dont have to spam it though, 3 shots and your good. Then fire off your rounds and then fire it 2 more times to refresh your buffs. After that just fire it once and then use one of your other abilities, its not the end all in damage ability.

I come across a lot of players calling Mercs tracer missile spammers. You see comments like "is that all you do?" and "Tracer Missile spammer". Now personally, it really doesn't bother me because I know those people have no clue why a merc spams this. They see the high damage hits and figure we are a 1 button class. Well guess what?

We spam it because WE HAVE TO. You see, tracer missile gives us 3 important procs:

1) Heat Signature. Talented, we need to fire 3 Tracer Missile to get 5 Heat Signature.
Heat Signature gives us a +15% damage bonus to Heatseeking Missiles. So we must
spam Tracer Missile at least 3 times to get this. Heatseeking missiles is on a 1 min
cooldown.

2) Tracer Lock. Tracer Lock stacks up to 5 times. We get +6% damage per point in the
stack to Rail Shot (15 cooldown). We need to fire 5 tracer missiles to get max damage on rail shot.


3) Barrage Talent. Fully talented, we have a 30% chance to proc this. It will increase our Unload damage by 25%. This is consumed on use and must be restacked. 30% means 3 Tracer Missile spams on average to proc this.


4) Our other high damage dealers (heatseeking missiles, rail shot and unload) all have
cooldowns. HS missiles is 1 minute and the other 2 are 15 sec each. Once our tracer
lock and heat signatures are stacked, we have to fire tracer missiles over and over to
reproc Barrage, or as we wait for the 15 sec/1min cooldowns on our other abilities,
throwing some rapid shots (low damage dealing compared to our other abilites) in
there to manage our heat.


I hope this helps non mercs understand why you see the spamming. Like I said before, the comments really don't bother me and by all means keep them coming if it makes you feel better, but at least be educated on why it happens.

I come across a lot of players calling Mercs tracer missile spammers. You see comments like "is that all you do?" and "Tracer Missile spammer". Now personally, it really doesn't bother me because I know those people have no clue why a merc spams this. They see the high damage hits and figure we are a 1 button class. Well guess what?

We spam it because WE HAVE TO. You see, tracer missile gives us 3 important procs:

1) Heat Signature. Talented, we need to fire 3 Tracer Missile to get 5 Heat Signature.
Heat Signature gives us a +15% damage bonus to Heatseeking Missiles. So we must
spam Tracer Missile at least 3 times to get this. Heatseeking missiles is on a 1 min
cooldown.

2) Tracer Lock. Tracer Lock stacks up to 5 times. We get +6% damage per point in the
stack to Rail Shot (15 cooldown). We need to fire 5 tracer missiles to get max damage on rail shot.


3) Barrage Talent. Fully talented, we have a 30% chance to proc this. It will increase our Unload damage by 25%. This is consumed on use and must be restacked. 30% means 3 Tracer Missile spams on average to proc this.


4) Our other high damage dealers (heatseeking missiles, rail shot and unload) all have
cooldowns. HS missiles is 1 minute and the other 2 are 15 sec each. Once our tracer
lock and heat signatures are stacked, we have to fire tracer missiles over and over to
reproc Barrage, or as we wait for the 15 sec/1min cooldowns on our other abilities,
throwing some rapid shots (low damage dealing compared to our other abilites) in
there to manage our heat.


I hope this helps non mercs understand why you see the spamming. Like I said before, the comments really don't bother me and by all means keep them coming if it makes you feel better, but at least be educated on why it happens.

lol at the envy.

Because spamming force lightning is much more skillful

Because spamming aoe heals are much more skillful

Because hitting "1, 2, 3" is much more skillful than hitting "1, 1, 3"

Tracer missile debuffs armor and loads up our damage. Anyone that doesn't open with 2 tracer missiles is hurting their team.



There's no class in this game that's "hard" to play. If you wanted something that involved high player skill you wouldn't be playing a tab targeting MMO.

Other classes spam just as much but it goes unnoticed because the animations aren't as standout. No decent BH just spams tracer. If you lose to someone who just spams tracer you are a terrible player, and if I can beat you by spamming 1 button, i'm going to do it for the lulz to show everyone "hey look how bad this guy is"

dont try to justify your OP tracer missiles they clearly need to be nerfed end of story.