Could Merc/Mandos get some survivability before 5.0 please?

Mercs have to stay mobile, Snipers dont as they are harder to even get to. Snipers have cover, rolls, acc debuff, its an apples to oranges comparison. Mercs kite, Snipers turret, trying to compare the 2 is silly.

PT has a ton of passive mitigation that Mercs do not unless we take tree skills that weaken us elsewhere and we still cant get them all. I play both and i can take FAR more damage on my PT than my Merc. Yes, PTs also suffer from lack of aggro drop, but thats the only comparison. Give me baseline passive they have plus baseline carb and it likely solves all my problems.

bottom line you are reaching for comparisons that either do not exist or are not accurate.

Mercs have to stay mobile, Snipers dont as they are harder to even get to. Snipers have cover, rolls, acc debuff, its an apples to oranges comparison. Mercs kite, Snipers turret, trying to compare the 2 is silly.

PT has a ton of passive mitigation that Mercs do not unless we take tree skills that weaken us elsewhere and we still cant get them all. I play both and i can take FAR more damage on my PT than my Merc. Yes, PTs also suffer from lack of aggro drop, but thats the only comparison. Give me baseline passive they have plus baseline carb and it likely solves all my problems.

bottom line you are reaching for comparisons that either do not exist or are not accurate.

This explains so much about my initial 65 foray into merc PvP... I was like, maybe it's a gear thing. They see that I'm squishy. Now it all makes sense.

A merc that can properly kite while dpsing is a nightmare, and you are asking that on top of their mobility they also should get an escape just in case I manage to get close enough to tap them.

I have to say snipers and mercs are more alike then people think. For me there really isnt that much difference in mobility between them. I would go so far to say that i move more around on sniper then merc. The really huge difference is the types of dcds the classes have and thats where sniper wins because it has huge mitigation possability. Merc dcds arent as strong so they rely on healing too. Using 2 or 4 stacks of tracer lock to heal instead of doing damage is so much better most of the time.

Don't OTHER classes already exist like that ?

imo, the sacrifice should the be the gcd you "waste" healing rather than the proc you spent 2-3 tracers building up. but iunno. might just be me there.

Agreed... blowing those stack to heal as Arsenal is imo a bad thing. Even with them the heal wont save you, our heals are subpar for the resource cost, and wasting that higher damage is counter productive and only delays the inevitable. It wont save us regardless, the only thing that will is taking hem out faster than they do us.
You may be a very good healing Merc Asana, I dont know ive never played with you or seen you in any stream ive ever watched by players doing ranked or regs to judge, but many things you say here make me question your views outside of that spec.

You may be a very good healing Merc Asana, I dont know ive never played with you or seen you in any stream ive ever watched by players doing ranked or regs to judge, but many things you say here make me question your views outside of that spec.

As a matter of fact he seems to be on the top 3 places on merc leaderboard(not that this proves anything)