Tracer missile

yes yes!

It makes me chuckle when you see them just stand there completely unresponsive during the lockout.

If three of any class are attacking you... you should be dying... even if they're healers. Three powertechs that rocket-punch you then railshot you would burn you down just as fast.

Arsenal mercs are forced to spam tracer missile because all of their skills in the tree revolve around it, you aren't seeing the instant cast rail shots and other crap that you're getting hit with, just the tracer cast bar. The big hits don't come until the 5 stacks of heat signature are on the target, then rail shot hits, and they follow up with heatseeker or unload.

I play a powertech. Interrupting the merc's cast pretty much gimps them. All the other abilities and their defensive procs can't activate, and there are plenty of interrupts that every other class gets. If they can't build those stacks on you, they're dead pretty quick since they also can't build up their power barrier.

Tracer missile spam is a weakness because they can't do anything without it. Seriously, has anyone looked at the merc arsenal tree before complaining?

PS: The video of the one-button tracer missile is rather disappointing. The video is old, and the BH is a 50 and the republic team has non-50s (some in the teens). He loses all his 1v1 fights, typically has a group with him that just overpowers the enemy, and they still end up losing the warzone. The funny thing is that most of the time he's just ignored and allowed to spam the tracer missile.

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.

weather its good design or not, it's how bioware made the class. So it's how I play the class.

And that's the problem. Having 1 skill that does solid damage, debuffs the target, and buffs several other abilities, doesn't make sense--especially when you can spam it. That is the problem. It's a bad design because the class only really needs to use 1 skill to be on par with others who have to use much more complicated setups and have much more limited benefits. Tracer spam is a problem of design, and that's what people want fixed, the design.

A geared 50 beating none 50's, undergeared 50's and scrubs, shocking...

I'd be more surprised if he didn't beat them, complain when spamming tracer missile actually works against non *******.

I recently respec'd to tracer spam from healing spec because my guild needed a dps for EV. After that i played a few WF's, and honestly i for got what an easy mode spec this is. Its quite a joke actually. They need to change the whole mechanic of BH's and Troopers.