Tracer missile

Not really... you have 2s snare on proc of plasma cell, also if you spec into it a snare break on shield for ourselves. Assault is ALOT more fun and tactical than spamming grav/tracer all day.. i got so bored just pressing one button and still top dmg/kills with assault. PLUS you have the ability to single handedly stop a group from capping by dotting everyone around you.

Burst is still great as assault too. Plasma Grenade, Incendiary, Plastique, High Impact,Full auto, (high impact if it procs). Mix in a few hammer shots for the proc/snare. Almost all while running. I hardly ever have problems with melee.

Personally, as a mid-40's Merc, I REALLLLLY hope they nerf Tracer Missile.
Then the REAL crying is going to begin.

Pyro mercs are 10x nastier than arsenal mercs.

Arsenal is only "OP" if the "P" stands for played.
Overpowered they are not.

Be careful for what you wish for, cause the day after the tracer missle nerf, you guys are going to drown in a flood of tears.

Shhh! You're not supposed to tell them about us pyro mercs! Now they know.

Mostly because our rotation requires Grav/Tracer in order to make our other abilities useful. Oh, and because getting interrupted isn't super obvious with the terrible UI in this game.

If you get owned by Tracer spam, then learn to LOS. If you get caught in the open by a Merc/Commando, and can't interrupt him, then you deserve to die.

The funny thing is, with no combat log, they don't even know about all the other things we are hitting them with - they only notice tracer because of the obvious cast bar and ridiculous animation. You know that pew-pew laser thing we do? Yeah, that's actually more damage than tracer missile. So is the thing where we instantly fire a spread of rockets at you. And sometimes even that little laser thing that you probably didn't see because it blinked so fast.

Of course, tracer buffs all of those things so, yeah, we probably tracer tracer'd you first. Once that's done we probably use more single target damage attacks than most other classes. You just don't notice them.

Complaints of this type are usless without combat logs to show how many abilities people actually use in PVP. Of course tracer will be our highest damage - because EVERYTHING else has a cooldown, DUH. What else do you want us to use when those are unavailable, harsh language?

As long as the qq about tracers drown out the secret awesomeness of pyro mercs, we'll be safe to own everyone.

Just tried it with my sniper... i think that bounty hunter was avoiding me for the rest of the fight

I have a low level tank spec BH and a low level of the infamous BH tracer missile spec. My issue with my poor tank spec toon is that survivability isn't much different than it is for my Mercenary but my Merc does three times more damage. That said, gameplay wise, I think I like the tank better in pve and pvp. It's more fun. Please tell me this class is competitive in solo pvp at higher levels.

Actually pyro mercs arent tougher or better imo, but you do tag more people easily and thus get credit when they die :P i been doing this.

By/troopers are useless unless healing