Sorcs are BROKEN!!!

The idea that if not being actively guarded and healed they should be able to be killed in seconds regardless of what they do is the sum total of 75% of peoples ideas on how Sage/Sorcs should be, ie WAAAHHH I WANT EASY KILLS /sniffle /pout.

That's ridiculous. Do you really understand what that would mean re: Sorcerer damage? Turbulence would have to do 20K damage. That is why games moved away from 'glass cannons.' You either have to give them obnoxious damage to compensate or no one would play them.

All DPS specs need to be around the same damage/survivability. Doesn't have to be identical, and certainly not mechanically the same, but it should be close enough so that no spec is a clear right or wrong answer.

Exactly! THIS!

That is what they want! "I should be able to kill any Sorc 1 on 1 in seconds with no damage to me!"

Because class that already does higher damage than Trooper/BH and Warrior/Kight needs to be able to tank the same amount damage. /sarcassm
As for "games moved away from glass cannon", I call bs on that one. Check some recently released MMOs and in most of them you will find at least one form of a "glass cannon/mage" class (very high damage, light armor, extremely low survivability). Sages/Sorcs are SWTORs version of a "mage" class. They already deal one of the highest amount of damage in the game, outperformed only by hatred/serenity sins/shadows (yes I know that spec a bit OP and yes I agree it should be tuned down) and the faceroll PT/Vanguard burst, not to mention sorcs/sages can also heal themselves. Its only logical that they should have the lowest survivability, lowest defenses and such.

If you want to have all DPS classes to have exactly the same survivability and exactly same dps, whats the point of having different classes and different armor in the first place? Just make one class and one armor type and Bingo! Balance problems solved. There need to be glass cannons and there need to be sustained dps thats lower but with increased survivability.

As opposed to sorcs/sages going "I should be able to have insane dps, tank-level survivability and self-heals" as it is now.

EDIT: I forgot mobility, so please add "running around while casting stuff" and " easy-mode kitting" to that.

Posts like yours make it harder and harder to stay polite and reasonable when addressing these silly arguments. Learn the game, learn the very obvious drawbacks of this class and you will do better. Or just keep whining.

Draw backs? Sorcs have draw backs? Strange I have a mid 20s Sorc and have not found any...and on my 60s Pubs I never seem to find any, unless you simply refer to them not wearing hvy armour.