Vanguard/Powertech Most OP class in the game

Both Juggernauts and Marauders have better defensive cooldowns than PT's, Jugg does need to somewhat gimp itself to get it's good one though. 40% mit to everything.

Rail shot is a ranged attack, not a tech attack. This might help some sniper/slingers out.

Well when I´m facing a Sniper or any ranged class for that matter I´m always glued to them circling them so they can´t use some abilities.

So I´m not fighting a ranged battle with him which I would obviously lose :P

Games are not balanced for 1v1...

Sometimes it happens. That´s why there´s an Assassin medal :P

Pyrotechs/Assaults are the new FOTM class, actualy its been for a couple of months now.
I see alot more of them then Merc/Commandos on my server actually.
Its a very easy class to play and very mobile while still dishing out 400k+ damage per warzone easily.

I agree the damage should be brought down quite a bit, considering all the other utilities they have. They pretty much have all skills a commando have, except grav round and demolition round, plus grapple, shields, interupts, higher damage, more mobility.

A well specced, CC-immune sniper in cover that makes good use of his knockbacks & snares can be very hard for a char that needs to be within 4m to perform best and can't leap or use CC to break cover and then leap (or walk towards them while they are stunned).

It's the combination of the right skill points and abilities that make them good against powertechs, a sniper with some or none of these things specced will be much worse off against a PT.

Well Played Assassin and Marauder > Well Played PT.

Problem is the % of well played sins/maras are so few and far between it means I can usually just wreak havoc on the other team. (Which is funny on my server, I have gotten so many hate tells for the damage I do from people and guilds i STILL can just shoot away without a single person attacking me).

Fun fact. The guy that can kill you in under 8 seconds you may want to kill before you focus somebody else.....he is beyond squishy, don't let that heavy armor fool you..

EDIT: to the guy that posted below, I'm guessing he's running a tank hybrid.

If I don't get a 5K medal a match I'm disappointed in myself....

The ranged damage capabilities are pretty meh if you spec. into charge. If you have charge, you don't have thermal det, which cuts your ranged damage by quite a bit.

As far as weaknesses, I would say (with my spec) anything you can't go toe to toe with. I have a really hard time with snipers (cover really screws over powertechs quite a bit, can't charge or pull to close range after they push you back and snare you and cover mitegates rail shot) and I have a hard time with tank assassins. They just have more survivability than me.

All in all though, I agree with your assessment. Powertechs are a pretty great class, and I'm pretty sure the only reason we don't have more nerf threads is because we aren't as flash and we don't pull big numbers. Power techs don't ever hit for over 3.5k (unless it's thermal det, which I don't have) but we have good consistent damage to make up for it. We're certainly nothing to sneeze at that's for sure.

Unless they have the big CC immune cover you can use electro dart to break cover then grapple / leap.

I love doing this to snipers who think they setup in a good position above us.