Why Smash Should Not be Nerfed

cappinng and defending you will be pretty close to each other

i dont think so people dont go ok take out the healer and then the monkey, they'd go after the tank next

i have no idea what you just said, i only know english though

Ive never seen anyone slap a 12k hit attack unless its masterstrike which has a 3s duration and just walking away you avoid the last hit
Im a full conq BiS vigilance guardian and I still take these 8-9k smashes with 33% damage reduction imagine if i got hit full force

both those classes arent OP the only thing OP is the super huge aoe hit that does more dmg than all instant attacks

the threads have clearly have people asking for healing to be nerfed for a long time but the smash monkey was op way before that
dps can burn a decent sorc/sage healer and mercenary/commando healer but its that OP scoundrel/operative and guess what, people have ALSO asked for that to be nerfed

auto attack and kite is the answer every time you see cloak (unless you have low slash or some other white stun/mezz/attack). however, since they are pretty **** dealing with multiple ppl attacking them, I'm going to assume they're 1) attackng a node or 2) on a vastly superior team, and it really doesn't matter what they're doing.

Just have to say that since we are a pure DPS class with no other function (same with gunslinger/sniper), of course we should dominate the melee DPS and the ranged DPS slots. All other classes with DPS ability can easily respec.

And yes, I'm sure other classes would love to have an autocrit high damage DPS. Just the same, I would love the ability to respec to heals or have most of my attacks be ranged, or the ability to scamper roll or have permanate stealth ability.

Man have you not played arenas? Have you not seen how easy it is to kite around those pillars as a healer with a slowed smasher just sort of walking around after you? The only reason smashsers insist on following the healer around the pillar is at least it prevents big heals from coming out.

Because we are a pure DPS class that cannot ever node guard or respec to tank. Why do you expect the two classes to have similar utility?

So you would want your class to be simultaneously on par with smasher for DPS, the top node guard in the game, top tank in the game, on top of the hordes of other utility feautres you had such as being able to stealth in huttball and wait at the line for the friendly leap?

There's a reason why you couldn't field a ranked team without a shadow.

"Oh, that smasher popped his guarded. OK CC the healer and hard switch in 4 seconds."

A smasher that has popped his guarded is #1 burn-down target.

OMG this is exactly what I have been advocating!!! Glad to see someone else who thinks the same

Yes, and remember how sorcs were nerfed to the ground and rendered absolutely worthless until bubble-stun, and then sorcs were only taken into ranked games for the bubble-stun alone?

Nerfing sorc to the ground was the single worst balance change the devs have made so far in this game.

Given that absolutely zero healing is recieved. Which is a very unreal situation. The healer is probebly already at full resolve because that was required to get you low in the first place. And exactly that illustrates why it is OP.

And most of other DPS can respec to heals or tank, and have all sorts of other crazy utility like being able to throw down a lot more AOE, stealth out indefinitely, scamper, pull, push...