Level 50 Gunslingers/Snipers in WZ.

Oh, ok. So tell me how we can protect our dots from being dispelled.

Quit casting them 1v1 on a healer and focus on the chaos? A healer isn't going to notice every dot in a sizeable group. Quite honestly? I have yet to see my DoTs ever be dispelled

I have almost completely stopped playing my sniper in pvp. It's just not fun, so I rerolled a class that is.

I see snipers frequently and 2 guildies are gunslingers.

They are great for burning healers, all except for the cover system.
Really hard to be viable when so easily LoS'd

Sometimes your burst demolishes the enemy. Then you encounter an enemy with equal expertise. And they absorb everything, take barely any hp damage, and continue to destroy your party while you plink away uselessly.
Many gunslingers think they are amazing because they can destroy fresh 50s and squishy targets like non-tank spec assassins. They don't realize that their amazing damage logged at the end of the WZ isn't actually doing much to help the team.
At the moment, an equal expertise healer, especially mercenary, can outheal your burst while also healing the team, especially if there is also a sorc to bubble. We are underpowered. Extremely underpowered.
The worst class in the game at the moment. And Bioware hasn't even acknowledged that there is a problem.

They are underpowered. In a game where EVERY class is dps, then the pure dps class needs to have ZOMG! NERF THIS CRAP! dps. And do you ever hear anyone crying about nerfing Snipers and Slingers? Nope. Which means they do "good" dps in a game where everyone does "good" dps. But they don't get the defense, heals and utility of other classes. If done right every third post on the pvp forum should be entitled "Aimed Shot".

Ballistic shield is amazing, just I don't see it used nearly enough..
No class pulls out more lethal AoE. Is it easy to dodge AoE? Yeah, a bit, but in a harsh fight, its a game changer.
Evasion could use some work...
Trust me, the utility they lack is only Huttball utility. In Huttball, they play a game of, "lets see if I can kill this person!" and they will do so fairly reliably if they aren't picking horrible targets.

I disagree about the AoEs. I think Commando/Merc take the AoE title. Not only are about half their attacks AoEs, Death from Above does more damage than Thermal Grenade.

Like I said, I don't think Slinger/Sniper damage is bad. I just don't think it's where it should be given three dps trees.

Orbital strike crits for 3-4k.. add in plasma probe and suppressive fire with occaisonal grenade and if anyone is stupid enough to not move, they die, pure and simple, they WILL die. I've caused TPKs in Voidstar with that. (Doesn't happen often, but when it does, its glorious)

I freaking hate that, as soon as I see that on me I start scrambling to break LoS because 2 or 3 shots after that I am dead.