Melee Classes at HUGE disadvantage

k bro, useless "stun" (if that's what you want to call it). I bet you play a Sorcerer/Sage.

First off let me start by saying I really dont like the resolve system. But if that is what we have to use then fine, but at least try to make it fair. I havent played every class yet, but as far as i know every class has a stun. Add to that all the classes have other abilities in the form of knockbacks, snares, and knockdowns.

Ok lets look at the difference between melee and ranged classes. Personally I play a sith assassin so that is the base of where I am coming from. The melee classes have to get into melee range. In a one on one situation stealth helps with this(or leap if u are a warrior). but that only helps starting out. So ranged has abilities to keep us away. knockbacks, stuns, knockdowns, snares. to a melee character ALL of these serve the same purpose. They all completely stop the damage output of the melee class. However, where it gets irritating is that snares are not affected by resolve.

So melee classes are at a disadvantage because there is an effective CC that is completely ignored by resolve. A melee could be effectively taken out of a fight just by snaring him before stunning. a full snare or 2(which the melee shouldn't cc break) followed by a couple of stuns and you are as good as dead. Not to mention most snares are on relatively low CDs.

Normally MMOs make up for this by having melee be quite a bit more beefy than ranged classes. this is not the case in ToR. The only relatively squishy ranged class is the sniper/gunslinger.

So does this sound about right or am I missing something that makes up for this disadvantage?

EDIT. I do understand that operatives/smugglers have a ton of burst from opener, but that is a different problem.

k bro, useless "stun" (if that's what you want to call it). I bet you play a Sorcerer/Sage.

Chokes the target, crushing and stunning it while Force Choke is channeled.


Just saying

Too bad you can't move while using it. That's if you aren't instantly interrupted by some for of the 500 thousand different interrupts in this game or if it actually works in the first place. But it's OK, you play a class where none of your stuns are channeled. Marauders are the only melee class I've every played in any MMO that doesn't have a stun.

Call it whatever you like, but it's channeled - meaning for all intents and purposes the caster is stunned as well.

I've been posting about this for weeks.

Resolve ignoring Roots is a terrible terrible design decision. I'd like Bioware to actually explain what in god's name they were thinking by making a CC not affected by resolve.