Tracer missle is balanced. Also other things ppl need to stop crying about! Read!

As a grav round using commando, I can officially say it's NOT okay/balanced.

Here you have an ability that, let's face it, once you drop the talent points into, you have absolutely ZERO incentive to use any other ability available to you.

Low ammo cost - check.
Competitive damage (compared to your other abilities) - check.
Activation time that allows for sustained DPS - check.
No cooldown - check.
Secondary effects - check and double check (debuff target & buff self).

I'm sorry, but having dozens of abilities that I will never use because Grav Round/Tracer Missile are just too damn valuable to NOT use is not a balanced class. Couple that with the fact that they simply do too much damage compared to the other abilities available along side those secondary effects, it's not right.

I sat and watched a Arsenal Merc in Civil War last night just sit there spamming Tracer Missile killing target after target in 4 to 5 volleys, unassisted. Tracer Missile was the pretty much the only ability he was using in combat for the entire match, even when confronted with melee opponents.

Grav Round/Tracer Missile are just too powerful in their current form. Easiest fix is tone down their damage output to half of what they do now. After all, given all the secondary effects, it's obvious that these abilities are designed to be support abilities rather than DPS abilities.

I've seen tanks carry the ball, with 3 dps beating on them, through the goal line. If you have not, then you do not pvp enough. Powertech/ vanguard pvp tanks own, hybrids have nice damage and guard, and guardians/Juggernaut got supreme mobility. Tanks are good... pvp more and you'll know.

Ever seen a vanguard, sage, and one dps hold a node down with 6 ppl em? I have.

It is. I hate the nerf this nerf that mentality. It ruins the game.

Grav round/tracer missile should do less damage. They cannot be shielded, they cannot be dodged, they have huge armor debuff and they are very cheap energy wise. Blah blah you're a turret try playing a sniper or gunslinger and getting snipe out-damaged 2x by tracer spam and having a much more complicated rotation and survivability while putting out LESS damage.

Just thought id clip this bit out.

3k crits, which are consistent since its dead easy to stack crit/surge in this game, 500 expertise also doesn't matter since expertise damage increase caps at 10% (and why some people are opting to swap some armor parts out for PvE parts to increase there damage beyond what they would aquire from having PvP armor only)

3k crits on ability with a 1.5 sec induction time with no cooldown vs an ability that requires certain conditions to be in effect to use (railshot) and one that requires a stack up to do extra damage (heatseaker)

And you are telling me and everyone else, that 500 damage difference (between railshot and tracer with railshot having a cooldown and a requirement to usage) is enough to call it balanced?

Delusional.

yeah sure, I can carry a ball like that when my resolve is full and I use all my cds. 10sec on tankiness every 3min! yay! Even better with a healer behind. Mobility wise? Hell yeah but it has nothing to do with mitigation...



If you had any idea of what you are talking about, you would know that a healer + guard is extremly powerful but it has nothing NOTHING to do tank's mitigation... Your 6 people are just mindlessly wacking at the healer while the tank is behind taunting like a madman with guard up...
I guess taking 5 sec to focus fire on the tank and cc the healer is too hard even with 6 people!

how about we do nothing to Shoot First since its all we have. no utility and no defense but too much damage? how about we focus on the other "i win" classes? i dont see Ops hopping ledges or bursting through burners to score points all by themselves not to mention snaring people every 4 seconds and/or rooting them on knockback or leap (which interrupts too) or maybe interrupting people with their pure interrupt