Buff Sniper Immediately! - Enough is Enough!

I agree that snipers need a bit of a defensive tweak for pvp; an issue for the developers is to not make them even more overpowered in pve; they top a lot of boss fights and parsing, similar to IO merc.

I like that OP has listed a number of changes and hope it adds to the dev's list of ideas for the class. I'm sure they've already got a whiteboard somewhere.

Virulence is perfect, it's a beast. It's just as fun and just as effective as MM, perhaps even more. It has the easiest dot spread in the game, simply because of the range, area it affects and no cooldown on it. The burst is incredible on top of that.

I retired my madness sorc and sage, and have completely switched to virulence sniper, even though I have spent most of the last couple of years as sharpshooter/marksman and the sorc has been my main since beta. Sniper has pretty good defensive cooldowns, outstanding mobility with one masterful talent and the dot spread mechanic and damage puts all others in the game to shame.

You guys can keep thinking whatever you want, and I guess I'll take any buffs you guys make happen, but I feel they would be completely unnecessary -- sniper is golden.

Virulence dot spread is almost as bad as Annihilation marauder. The area of the spread is incredibly small, especially compared to Sorc/sin, and the dots are extremely weak, especially compared to Sorc/sin. Any healer can easily heal through Virulence dots without breaking a sweat, and Virulence damage at 60 is rather pathetic.

Virulence dot spread is actually fine, that's what dot spread should be. Sorc/Sin dot spread is dumb and so many people have suggested moving it to Lacerate for Sins, who knows what for Sorcs. Death Field is ridiculous, very true to its name

Virulence dot spread is almost as bad as Annihilation marauder. The area of the spread is incredibly small, especially compared to Sorc/sin, and the dots are extremely weak, especially compared to Sorc/sin. Any healer can easily heal through Virulence dots without breaking a sweat, and Virulence damage at 60 is rather pathetic.

Dude hardly anyone has more than one good DPS spec.

VG? Nope Plasmatech is ****
Operative? Nope Lethality is ****
Assassin? Almost but Deception still does not have quite enough burst
Sage actually does have two, unless you are talking about team ranked in which case it has 0.
Mercenaries are close but IO's ramp time is shooting the spec in the foot.
Marauders? Do I even need to elaborate?
Juggernauts the only class off the top of my head that has three pug viable specs.

for snipers: MM - Burst, Lethality - Dot, Engineering - Defensive

Virulence dot spread is almost as bad as Annihilation marauder. The area of the spread is incredibly small, especially compared to Sorc/sin, and the dots are extremely weak, especially compared to Sorc/sin. Any healer can easily heal through Virulence dots without breaking a sweat, and Virulence damage at 60 is rather pathetic.