Why so few Snipers?

There is no "auto attack".

I use my "base attack", which is set to "1" like most people's when my energy gets close to 60% in order to keep my energy at the highest regen. The point of what I was saying is... snipers can't consistently use "special" attacks like some classes, in order to maintain the highest DPS rotation as MM we have to base attack quite a bit.

I don't know where you are getting this thing you are saying about me running my energy down.

All of our utility abilities require cover, while no other class in the game needs cover to use similar abilities.

AoE Knockback? Requires cover.

CC immunity cd? Requires cover.

DMG reduction aoe cd? Requires cover.

Hardest hitting abilities? Requires cover.

Ranged stun for troopers/BH's/Sorcers/Sages.
Sniper/Gunslinger stun? Requires melee range.

Speed boost talents or sprint abilities? None.

Heals? None.

Force pulls, force leaps, grapples, ect.? None.



Now go back through the list with a Sorcerer/Sage and you will see why no one plays Sniper/Gunslinger.

You can keep pretending that you need to use that crappy attack to keep your energy high, but any competent slinger can do it. You just need to practice.

QFT, my brother, although I'm a Gunslinger. Always in the top three for damage/objective points. The amount of effort I put in, compared to what the other classes that always top me in rankings do, though? It really kills my *****. No matter how hard I try, no matter how good my match was, there will ALWAYS be that one sodding p**** above me that rolled the face-roller class (Trooper, Consular, Knight. All the same, really) and beat me.

Mind you, whenever I can, I watch everybody in the match out of the corner of my eye to see who to give my MVP to. You know irritating it is when the Trooper that's been keyboard turning and clicking his skills the entire match actually beats me, all because I won't become beholden to the buggy and inoperable nerf-device of, "Cover?" I don't care if 3/4 of my true DPS is essentially teased away from me. But the fact that I work THAT hard for it?

One of my guildies (A Trooper, that I wipe the floor with each and every time mind you) complained to me about all of their skills having channel times, I kept my thoughts inside because, hey, he's a guildie, and he's never played a terrible, unbalanced and useless class before. But what were my thoughts?

"You have the GAUL to b**** and moan to me about cast times? Yeah. My three main attack skills are instant. And you know what? You resist the lot of them, and I only do about 2/3 of the apparent damage they're all meant to do. Most of my actual skills, I have to sacrifice for mobility so I can kite you.
I can't push you back, but you can. I can't DPS against you, since both my skills are forbidden to me, AND you resist it all anyway. I can't resist you, except for fifteen seconds where I might absorb a little damage with my shields. I can't get away from you, since you'll just pull me back in. You have all of those advantages PERMANENTLY over me, so if you have a cast time - a three second window that I have to **** of your range - then that should be my damn right."

I started with a sniper. Being immobile in pvp is a deathtrap, even being immobile against bosses in pve meant death. Cover is so slow and clunky half the time it takes longer to roll into it than to cast ambush.