Nerf tracer missle now

Or want actual balance. As it is Sentinels and Marauders ARE in need of help, despite what you might want to think.

Other classes are in good straits, particularly ranged. I have a Sniper who can utterly dominate, and can dominate in a way which is so EASY it makes some of my melee characters feel totally redundant.

I have a Sorc, Sniper, Op, and yes, a Marauder - I'm not requesting that they give marauder some love (I find that my build works quite well, personally). I'm merely responding to one guy that was considering force charge to be a disrupt when it really isn't.

Nope, Snipers get Hold The Line and GS I'll bet get something mirrored, making them uninterruptable in cover. They also are unshakable like bosses in cover, so are immune to ability pushback. They also have low CD 5 second roots, ample time to set up for major nuking.

Snipers and Gunslingers have the most effective casting (How you play it is your problem), but pay for it with limited mobility.

There is a pushback on TM. Most of us choose to spec to reduce it by 75% while climbing the skill tree.

This is true, but you have interupted a 1.5 second cast time nuke, causeing him/her to start another 1.5 second cast time nuke, and you are now in melee range so the argument of not having a ranged interupt is moot.

Goes like this, Tracer cast begins, force leap//charge interupts cast time, new Tracer cast begins, your true interupt skill locks out tracer. Of course this is assuming your up against an actuall spammer and not a merc/commando that has some skill behind them to counter your tactics.

This proves you know absolutly nothing about the class your complaining about and make the rest of anything you say suspect. The uppercut knockback has no slow on it and only barely knocks you back out of melee range, 5m is all. jet boost is the aoe knockback with a 60% slow on it, 30 second CD, 20 if tallented.

I fully support nerfing tracer missile spammers. All ranged classes with their auto facing mechanic deserve it anyway.

I think the sorcs/sages and commandos/mercs could do with watching the first 3 minutes of this old gem, it highly applies to them xD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caYYY...eature=related

Restarting the activation timer seems to be what this entire conversation is about. It doesn't sound like you'll be happy until you can put another class on a permanent reactivation timer of 4 seconds at a time. It has the same affect as KB, which is to disrupt the action taking place. You reset 1 tracer missile cast, you've effectively added an additional 1 to 1.5 seconds to their dmg out put. As other people have posted, it takes about 8 seconds to do 50% dmg to their target, well, you've just taken it to 9 to 10 seconds. If you do get KB'd after a charge, use your force camofluage or obfuscate and close the distance again, you act like there aren't any tools in a melee's arsenal to combat a TM merc.

Charge is a disrupt. If it causes whatever cast bar being used at the time to reset, then it has effectively disrupted the ability. How can you not consider that an interrupt?

Full disclosure, I play as a bodyguard and I see warriors pull their charge shenanigans on me all the time, after I KB them. Seems like these players know when to use their abilities.

I don't have any comment on your point about melee attacks, haven't played my warriors enough to see that. If it is true, the correct solution would be to fix your charge, not nerf your target's ability. It's not their fault your mechanic is broken.

Yeah I know, that's probably the issue though. That might be leading to this feeling of helplessness when facing it.

The only class I have a problem with tracer missile spam is my levelling Sentinel really. I find I need to use all my possible cast time interrupts (force leap, force kick, force camouflage for them to lose target, force stasis) to bring just one down. Blowing all your cooldowns just against one guy in a Warzone is a bit of a pain when its a team game.

I imagine it's different as a geared 50 Sentinel, but it's pretty painful as one who's in the high 30s and still levelling.

A 5m minimum range would do wonders. It would still be potent at range, but you would need to position, set yourself up to use it, instead of just stand there spamming it as a Melee swats at you at close range.