Tracer Spam

never played a bh before?

tracer missile does more than just dps. it stacks an armor buff on the bh and a debuff on the target that increases the damage of rail shot and heatseaker missile. also every time you use it, it has a chance to remove the cooldown time of unload.

it is the basis for many different abilities.

I agree with you that the vast majority never use those skills, but that's because of how it's been designed.

For every stack of Tracer Missile on the target, the Mercenary will do more damage with their Weapon/Kinetic damage attacks - of which they have many.

But after 5 TM's, the target is going to be out a sizable portion of their health. 1/3 or more, depending on how lucky the Merc is with criticals.

After a Rail Shot, Explosive Dart, Thermal Detonator, and (likely) a Heatseeker Missile, plus a new Tracer Missile to refresh the stacked debuffs, there's not a whole lot of time or enemy HP to dedicate to a 3second channeled ability that doesn't do all that much more damage than the other attacks available. Even less time if the enemy player gets close enough for a Rocket Punch.

And that's all assuming there isn't a grouping of players that they can let loose AOE's on.

Folks have to learn to press more than one button because you don't get tracer round until level 20. Also no Merc is topping damage and kills just using single target tracer missiles. The ones blowing up damage and kills are the ones who are throwing out their AoE every chance they can get, that is the real power of a Merc. Tracer missile is just a good option against a single target, although so is death from above if you have a target standing still. Its also one of the most counterable abilities, easily interrupted, locked, or LOS'ed. People complaining about it really do need to learn to play. As for one button spam; Sorc's spam lighting, snipers spam snipe, Mercs are hardly the only class that has an ability they use as the staple of their arsenal.

I saw a level 50 BH that called himself "pro" spamming tracer missile the entire round. He got the 2nd most kills in the round because he had a healer yes-man that would stand behind him and smile and nod whenever he'd say something.

assumeing that the lighning deals 1000 dps at least itll end up at 4,5k dmg at least

with a critchance of 33% and 60% critmultiplier:

(1000dps + 1000dps*0,6/3)*4,5s=5400dmg average

well, most of them dont just spam lightning (or whatever the channeled ability is called)

they also deal rediclous dmg having quite some mobility and an aoe knockback. the problem with sorcs is that they deal internal and elemental dmg which cannot be reduces by anything but overall dmg reduction (such as commandos have in their gunnery tree as a stacking buff or the sentinel's rebuke).

as we see there are several overpowered classes. atm mercs and sorcs (and their mirror classes) dominate pvp more than any other class. the sorc busts tanks and the mercs bust melees and basically evrything else that crosses their way.


btw as a sentinel i need 4,5s just to start the fight and having dealt 1k dmg. there are 3 abilities that crit with more than 2k dmg, none has a cd under 9s. there is one ability which sometimes deal over 3k dmg which can be used every 15s at best and deos not hit moving targets due to an animation issue. additionally the spec which is neccesary for this 3k+ crit lacks overall dps an features slightly better survivability.

°_° snipers spam snipe and don't use at least followthrough (more damage less energy and instant) inbetween?

thats nonsense. Full auto is hands down our strongest attack. If any Gunnery Trooper isn't using it then they are absolutely the worst player to ever play.

im sorry but I dont have a blind. and the best way to kill us is with melee all over us.

thats one guy and he sucks. and the team he is playing against sucks. please stop showing this garbage *** video. He has no clue how to play the character. I can make the same exact video using Forced Lightning only. So I really don't even see how that is relevant.

It actually couldn't be more relevant considering this is a thread about Tracer Missile spam, and that is a video of a guy doing a warzone only spamming Tracer Missile.