Why so few Snipers?

Mostly because they are the weakest AC in PvP at the moment. Yes, weaker than Marauders and Juggernauts, don't let anyone fool you. They have low group utility and don't do enough damage to justify being a turret class. There is a reason they are the least played.

A skilled Gunslinger/Sniper can still be very effective in WZ's.


The problem is, if they played Sorc/Sage or Com/Merc they would be even better.

You want to know the REAL reason?


Its because snipers animations are bugged to hell. Snipe, the #1 skill they have to use, is bugged so bad that it bugs literally every 3rd shot. And you have to use it a lot as it is your only spammable skill till later when you can combo followthrough. Even then its still your most used skill.
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Here are the other reasons:

1. They only have 1 viable tree for pvp AND pve(marks).
2. Their dps isn't top burst, and their energy runs out FAST(regens incredibly slow).
3. They are squishy in comparison to everything cept maurauder.
4. Cover is still bugged.
5. For utility or damage, sorc/merc is better.
6. They have horrible pvp armor.
7. Who wants to play a dps only class that has less dpds, utility, and survivability?

The energy system for sniper needs a bit of love.

cover system - works whenever it wants.

Ambush, needs a bit more love. Ambush should root the person in place imo to make it what it is. A long channeled ability that does crap dmg since is mitigated by everything.

Our level 50 skill.....is eLOheL "Target Acquired" needs revamp. It needs to match that of the Powertech "Explosive fuel"


also, you can tell this was the last class made. They dont even have Tech sniper rifles. We are missing some Sniper specific gear. A lot of the items are for Operatives Medics and operatives OP stealth rapeass.

Im currently lvl 23 sage....omg, i **** ***...so easy to play. Every 1minute, i get to make you use scape. If im low, ill elevate you run away and heal to full and come back and **** you. lol so easy. snipers are clunky and needs love

Oh also like to add that if you dps someone and you are still in combat, you regen a total of 5 energy per second.

5. PER. SECOND.


So basically unless you can get ouf of combat by some miracle(as you remain in combat for random times regardless of actions taken or not taken).

You just run around goin "yipee i get max 30+ energy while sorcs get double their original!" while every other class rolls you over since you can't initiate a skill.

because huttball

What the hell are you talking about? As a sharpshooter, you will have 6 energy a second which is more than enough for any player that has half a brain to sustain their burst unless they stay combat for longer than a few minutes spamming all their skills, which is unlikely.

As for your points above, you seem to not fully understand the class very well. You make it out to be far more horrible than it really is.

Its awful, sorry. i already posted why.

Go figure you quote the spam instead of mine.

"its not that bad" oh really? What do you have thats better?

Dps-no
utility-no
Healing-no
tanking-no

Any combined better than any class with the same combination? NO

Because they do white damage. The only damage type being mitigated by shields and avoided with defense. Why go out of your way to gimp yourself when you can just roll a class that can roll thier face across the keyboard and never get defended against due to it all being yellow damage.

Here's why in short.

- Mercenary is easy. Sniper is hard.

- Mercenary can respec healing, sniper cannot.

- Mercenary survives easier than sniper.

Basically, mercenary > sniper.

Repeat points 1-3 for sorceror.

I play gunslinger, and I often get top damage and top kills, but I *work* for it. I've got so many keybinds I have to add shift+keybind around my main WASD keys just to use everything I need to use to stay alive and do my job. On top of that, I have to content with cover in place refusing to work for several seconds at a time and tab-targeting just being utterly terrible for dealing with stealthers who come up upon you. I need fast reflexes to do my job and the game is too stuttery and buggy at the moment.

So the long story short is that mercs/sorcs do everything a sniper/gunslinger does, but they do it better and with less effort.