Snipers need an urget nerf

this game will never have balanced pvp classes, so get used to it or avoid taking them on or reroll a class that can deal with them.

bioware have failed in almost every respect with regards to pvp....... do you expect any less ?

Series of shots is ridic... ranged ravage, WHAT? You should talk about how all those have 20% armor pen too and if ambush is talented, which i believe with the way you're talking about it it is, then it's like 40% on that... ridic.

Snipers while in cover are immune to interrupts, leaps, and pulls and they have an ability that makes them immune to all forms of CC on cooldown while their damage is equal or better to all other DPS classes. This in itself is overpowered.
Forget the nerf Marauder threads, let's get Snipers nerfed already this is ridiculous.

Snipers while in cover are immune to interrupts, leaps, and pulls and they have an ability that makes them immune to all forms of CC on cooldown while their damage is equal or better to all other DPS classes. This in itself is overpowered.
Forget the nerf Marauder threads, let's get Snipers nerfed already this is ridiculous.

Snipers are turrets...good damage when they stand still, but close the distance, los them and there's nothing they can do to stop you.

Also entrench lasts for 20 seconds...if they move it's cancelled, use that time to use powerful aoe abilities(orbital strike, lightning storm) and they will move.

40% armor pen vs untargettable cloaked target = 0 damage
40% armor pen vs 99% damage reduction undying rage = 6 damage


35m range max you have 31m's of 0 damage, ontop of 2 knockbacks 1 with root and 1 extra root.

we have defensive tools but these don't compare at all to the defensive cooldowns that maras/sents have:
Having 35m's of range is a defense and being able to take no damage from and do damage is sufficient enough.
- i can be in cover facing them and maras/sents still jump to me... it's happened... if that should not be possible in any way, shape or form, please let me know and i'll report it the next time it happens to me... otherwise, 35m is good but can be easily countered...


BS. The leap button doesn't even light up if you target a sniper in cover, if i watn to leap close to a sniper i pick someone that is close to him. You should probably get documented proof of this happening and report it as a bug.

Then Saber ward is also useless since it doesn't block force and tech attacks, reduces damage but not block them
- evasion and shield probe are are 2 main damage reduction abilities, the rest are just cc's... as defensive abilities, they pretty much suck overall... if evasion blocked all damage including force and tech for 3 sec rather than just melee and ranged, it would be slightly better and not OP... but it isn't...

They are CC's that are given to be used defensively and no they don't suck overall.

flashbang - breaks on damage - fills up 75%? resolve
5 seconds to run away, you can go lethality pop it and counter measure and get quite a distance, I believe lethality also increases speed by 15% for 4 seconds too if you use your stun, so you can stun run and keep doing damage.
- am not lethality spec, otherwise, great if you want to stop em, and have nobody attack the target, and don't care if it fills their resolve...

I was just saying you do have the tools to stay ranged.

leg shot - lasts 2 sec
Last's up to 5 seconds, you can still explosive probe take cover and put out a ambush before the target can even move again.
it breaks on damage after 2 sec, and it can also get deflected at times... it's useful but sometimes all it does is delay the inevitable by a GCD...

Yeah i noticed it can which is quite lame but the samething happens to charge too, charge to a target "parry" oh hey they didn't get rooted. The roots should go through no matter what.

cover pulse - knockback
Also has up to a 5 second root on it in which case my last statement sir.
true but it also has a 30 sec cooldown which means it can only be used once during a fight


It's good enough.

shield probe - protects about ~ 3000 damage of protection
How does this work? I'm confused by this ability as it gives no real description in the tool tip on how effective it really is.
i honestly didn't know this either, so i went here - http://www.torhead.com/ability/8zIyF...probe#comments
i have about 300 bonus healing i think (i'm at work) so using that calc, i got that number... i could be totally wrong as well... either way, it helps a little but most of the time i end up dead...

debilate - 4 sec stun
I think i already commented about this look up to see what was said.

talented knock back

they are used to prolong your life yes, but none of them are get out of jail free cards...
They should all give you enough time to continue doing damage to your opponent while taking none and should help a ton.

yes sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't... which is absolutely fine...

leg shot - lasts 2 sec
Last's up to 5 seconds, you can still explosive probe take cover and put out a ambush before the target can even move again.
it breaks on damage after 2 sec, and it can also get deflected at times... it's useful but sometimes all it does is delay the inevitable by a GCD...

shield probe - protects about ~ 3000 damage of protection
How does this work? I'm confused by this ability as it gives no real description in the tool tip on how effective it really is.
i honestly didn't know this either, so i went here - http://www.torhead.com/ability/8zIyF...probe#comments
i have about 300 bonus healing i think (i'm at work) so using that calc, i got that number... i could be totally wrong as well... either way, it helps a little but most of the time i end up dead...