How to completely counter a Marauder

Some classes counter marauders more easily than others. All classes counter marauders more easily if they also have one (play it to 50, mind you, and just get familiar with your own rotations/tactics for every situation - don't bother replicating what others attempt to counter you if it's failing, lol). And please don't bother telling us how you dominate sub-50 pvp as class 'x' when you're level 'y'. All classes scale differently in sub-50 pvp (which can further be made obvious if you always keep your character in full purple gear for their level) and many classes are immensely dependendant upon abilities/talents unavailable early on. Yes, marauders perform well in sub-50 (particularly before obtaining undying rage), but over all the characters I have, I'll honestly say that lv. 10 sniper gets the most significant scaling. I had 6.7k ambushes (and I wasn't even geared up mind you). By lv. 19, I'm lucky to get ambush crits to break 4k (unless it's an unbubbled sorc/sage lv. 38+) and it continues to decrease as you progress until you get to 50 and significant expertise from gear. From what I recall as maraduer in sub-50 pvp, you'll notice significant loss of survivability around the same time you actually obtain undying rage (38).
Lastly, sub-50 pvp brackets are mostly composed of either PuGs that are either bad, yet to fully learn their class, happen to be at a level where they (and/or gear) happen to be between keystone levels (levels that grant improved ranks of abilities and/or grant a new ability or talented skill that might have a significant impact), or... as many sub-50 matches have become: groups of lv. 50's on alts that want a more relaxing break from lv. 50 objective-based pvp playstyles whose only goal in a match happens to be to maximize damage/killing without any significant concern for contributing towards victory and requires as little effort on their behalf (thus, don't bother to actually use tactics to counter since a death could usually mean less downtime). Sure, you might get some players that play sub-50 brackets like they would ranked 50 WZ's, but good luck getting an entire team composed of people like this. Hence, sub-50 pvp is rarely a good meter upon which to gauge how a class performs overall.

For the most part, every class is easy to play in this game, period.

Tankasin is pretty middle of the road, as far as "skill" goes for classes in this game.

My Marauder, Sniper, Powertech, and Sorc certainly aren't any harder to play.

PS) A good Sniper will tear a Tankasin apart w/ decent positioning, as will a Powertech if the Tankasin's Shroud is on cd. : )

People posted stuff like this for sorcs and ops - and we all know what happened to them.

I agree - try to save resolve fillers if possible until you can burst a mara/sent to death before they can use their bubble (i.e. stun them ~30-35% HP, more for some classes, less for others, but this is usually a good average number that most classes can burst down before the stun expires - significantly shortens mara/sent lifetimes). If you have them, use roots, slows and knockbacks to counter their significant damage abilities. Also, if a Mara/Sent has full resolve early on, they're almost certain to get at least 1 easy kill. Class with the most difficult counter to maras/sents are merc/commandos, but it can be done - the only spec they have that is most vulnerable to maras/sents shouldn't ever be alone in the first place (needs group-mates to peel enemies from locking them down, debuffs apply to all damage from all sources - yeah, safe to say it's a goup-based spec).

A nerf may be in line for Marauders. It won't be a very big one I'm sure, but we'll see how that plays out.

The only problem I have with Snipers is that I can't figure out which of their 5 abilities that are synonyms for 'shoot stuff at you' has the KB effect built into it. I guess I'll actually have to roll one to figure out, since the text itself doesn't tell me anything. Basically you just have to reposition yourself when they do the attack that knocks you back (Ambush?) but it's hard to do that when you can't be sure which attacks is doing the KB.

2 should win against 1, so you might as well just admit some classes cannot beat marauders.

Ambush has the knockback if you are close enough to them. They also have another close range knockback. I believe Ambush is a 12s cooldown. If you can cloak before they root you, you can close again, but they'll root you and move, then ambush will be off cd soon.

I'll let you try for yourself. I provided input on what to look for, you might just find that you win the next 1v1 against the Marauder that you fear the most on your server.

Pretty much exactly what I was going to say.

It's not an exact science, as they have 2 KBs, and it's really very easy to cycle them and the root so that by the time you can actually close on them again, you'll be trying to DPS through their full health and defensive cds while you're at ~30%.

Also, Sniper is a huge blast for me so far, you may like it, Astarica. : ) I rolled it mostly for the reasons you said (and because I heard the story was awesome), and found out that it's actually a really nice change of pace from my Tankasin, and seems a lot more effective for ranged dps than my Sorc ever was.

I do miss Force Sprint though (part of the reason why I have 2 lv50 Inquisitor ACs lol).