Why Ranged Classes Dominate This Game and Why It needs a fix

Ever been knocked down huttball platforms over and over?

I just played a game where I basically spent 90% of my time trying to get back to the platforms after being knocked back... only to be KBed again as soon as I got there. Ad nauseum.

Boring gameplay. When I play ranged I can at least deal DPS to people above me, to help my teammates. As a melee I feel utterly useless. Heck, even fire in that map favor ranged players.

However yes, in 1v1 I feel fine, and I have never been kited to death. But I'd like to actually be useful in the warzone, instead of being forced to do meaningless random 1v1s on the side of the map.

As a lethality sniper, (the only sniper spec that can actually do damage to most melee), my only effective cc method is a melee range stun. I fight marauders toe to toe more often than not because trying to cc them while they're beating the *** out of me is a waste of time and will get me killed. I have to save all of my cc for when they bubble up anyway.

The problem, if there is one, is sorcerers/sages... not all ranged classes.

this is basically the answer to any melee who cant handle range.

melee from what ive seen possess way more overall dmg than any other class, so being able to draw your ranged target into a situation where he cant attack you until you attack him, is key and part of the challenge, is it not?

And that brings us back to the problem I pressented in the thread.

You cant stun your enemy because he is at full resolve bar, and you cant run out of LOS because you are rooted/slowed. What do you do?

Fix for this: Make roots/slows affect resolve bar as well.

Great post OP! It's not that slows,roots and stuns are the problem for melees, it's that we can literally be perma stunned rooted and made completely useless, whereas ranged is never useless.

I don't think they will every address this though, which is why I'm rolling a trooper now.

BW stated that they want all classes to output overall the same DPS. Melees dont deal more damage.

The issue is that ranged aren't punished for being in melee range enough and have ample ways to generate a gap. Ranged classes simply have better snares than most of the melee specs.

That being said, as another poster said somewhere earlier in the thread, the more melee there are, the harder it is for ranged to maintain that efficacy.

lethality sniper with 50% free slow in rotation,kb+root,root shot,stun+speed,blind+debuff has a lot tools to kill a jedi without getting more than 1-3 hits(dead range mele kiting)

Isnt this the same thing as saying: "The more ranged there are, the harder it is for melee to maintain that efficiancy" ?

when it comes to a sorc/sage. i think a good fix would be to take one abilty away, eitehr the bubble,sprint,the slow or the slow from teh lightning/force throw. and as for the push back stop they have to spec into that, thier not having it givin to them so its ok in my books.