Dots no longer helpful in defense???????

The funny thing is you're basically saying a zerg should also automatically win because they have more people.

DoTs are definitely powerful for Marauder/Sentinel, but for something like a Powertech, Assassin or Operative they're pretty weak. Doing 2k damage over 20 seconds isn't that amazing especially since it can be cleansed. Operatives can do decent damage with Lethality but it's more of that they get increased damage because of the DoTs, not the DoTs themselves.

Yeah? Why?

Hold on, were you being sarcastic when you said...

Because that sounds like a vast improvement and the way the world should *********** work. It is brilliant. Think about how the poor tank feels if all you had to do to make him useless was cast 1 spell that puts a DoT on him. If you had to actually stay and lay into me to prevent me from capping, I would be an actual tank and I would feel awesome for the teamwork my DPS partner and I displayed.

Essentially, yes. That is the case, if there's one defender at a node and 3 people come to take it and the one defender can't play defensively long enough to hold them off (and I have seen it done) then....how could you justify the attackers NOT taking the node?

It's like you guys don't think anyone should be able to take a node, ever. If sending an attacking force to a node and killing the defenders isn't enough to deserve taking a node in your mind, what the heck is?

Perhaps but it kills the utility of dot specs in pvp. The reason I could care less as Hybrid Sage is because I now become far and away the best node interrupter in the game. Pyrotech BH's? Dirty Fighter Smuggs? All got nerfed hard due to this.

QFT ^

Especially the part about the PvP dev team being incompetent. Some specs rely on DoT to be viable. Apparently Sorc/Sage wasn't alpha enough so they had to add another nerf to make it even easier for them.

Why should my dots disappear when I'm dead? I have gotten plenty of killing blows from dots even after I'm dead. What you suggested makes no sense.

Okay, since you obviously don't get it, let me spell it out. I could DoT the tank, then go after the ranged class, roll him and work on the tank until help could arrive. Now, I have to spend all my time attempting to kill a tank while the ranged class just blows me up at his leisure. It handcuffs me into losing, while before, if I was decent melee PvPer vs. bad PvPer's I at least could hold them off. Like I said, the better way to work this would have been for DoTs to not count against capping a point if the DoT dealer is dead, but if he's alive and actively defending, the benefit should be there. If the DoTs don't count after the DoT dealers death, it's not going to encourage suicide DoTing runs, now is it?

Yeah, DoTs shoudn't just disappear when you die, that'd be completely awful for the DoT classes.

I obviously don't get it? Believe me, we ALL get it. Of course you like a system that lets you hold off 2, 3 or more people all by yourself. You like being that "skilled". Really, everyone posting here in favor of the change understands your view on it 100%.

Hahahahaha. No, see, you've got that backwards. If you're a lone defender being overrun by two attackers, me and my DPS partner aren't the Zerg. The zerg are my 6 other teammates who are all slamming away at the other cap, distracting your allies while me and my partner execute a covert attack against a point with only a single defender. If we were enough to overwhelm your defenses, we rightfully deserve to cap, because you couldn't have killed the two of us anyway.


This. It handcuffs you into losing because you deserve to lose if your allies can't respond before we kill you. As an Immortal Jugg, I would have lost that cap too, because I don't simultaneously have the DPS to drop another tank, and the health to survive a direct assault by two players, one of them ranged. However, because you're a DoT-spec melee, you had an unfair advantage over me on defense duty. You could even potentially win the fight and not need help at all. Having access to a broken tool doesn't make you a better PvPer, it makes you overpowered.

Already there. But it wasn't the PvP stupidness that continues to go on but their forum moderation idiocy and lack of customer service.

These people don't deserve to make money.