Merc super cancer 5.0!!!!!!

I have to jump in here. Nightkin is mostly correct. I am not a leet player, I am average at best, I just like the game and like to PVP sometimes. As a Merc with “God Shield” I can say that it is nice to have an ability that stops me from being trained in 2 or 3 globals, and that was the norm is 4.0. Now in 5.0 I have lots of fun tools that I didn’t have. I get killed one-on-one all that time, by thinking players

“Oh, look he turned on “God Shield” I should stun him.”

But if you’re just going to face roll your key board you will lose and I have no sympathy for you. So sad for you that Merc’s are not free kills for you in 5.0.

Have a great day!

Lol to your logic. Mercs pop shield? Do not hit him. Kolto? Do not hit him. Reflect? Do not hit him. So basicly i must kite merc with my jugg for 20-30 seconds, and he can freecast his rockets on me. And if i am lucky to survive, he still has E-net, insta mezz, 4 sec root etc. Bro, i am jugg, not op, merc must kite me (and he has lots of tools for it) not i him.
And stop talking nonsense about new skanks. Jugg dps got ZERO dcds from this patch and lost soresu, no passive DR, except saber ward. Do you understand? If you will guard sombedy, you will melt in seconds.

From the perspective of a solo que sentinel. Are merc/mando defenses op?...probably. But nearly two years of dealing with op sorc/sage defenses has taught me to just adapt as best I can. As people have already pointed out, there are strategies that minimize the effectiveness of these merc defenses. And let's be honest, if you are strong with your main class, you will still outplay fotm rerollers. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I like how I am now actually happy to see a mando on my team in arenas. From what I have seen so far, the new merc "cancer" provides a natural counter to the sage/sorc cancer we have been living with for 2 expansions.

I'm pretty bad at Juggering myself --I wouldn't be a proper Merc if I knew how to melée -- and even I know a Jugg who clearly doesn't know how to play his class.

I see one such here, and just had to comment it because of how egregious this particular example is.

This is 100% L2P.

But realistically, this i who is going to get my main-since-forever class nerfed back into the dirt. They already did it to my 'Slingers, once, and it would seem Sorcs too, now.

Stop being bad, and learn to stagger CCs, you've got some few of them last I checked.

"Bro."

From the perspective of a solo que sentinel. Are merc/mando defenses op?...probably. But nearly two years of dealing with op sorc/sage defenses has taught me to just adapt as best I can. As people have already pointed out, there are strategies that minimize the effectiveness of these merc defenses. And let's be honest, if you are strong with your main class, you will still outplay fotm rerollers. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I like how I am now actually happy to see a mando on my team in arenas. From what I have seen so far, the new merc "cancer" provides a natural counter to the sage/sorc cancer we have been living with for 2 expansions.

As a slight aside, are you able to 1v1 *decent* dps operatives?

Because not being funny, while I agree you might not have the tools to kill good merc dps now (as veng/vigi), I'm pretty sure you can't do it with operatives either (as evidenced by every dueling tourny ever). That's pretty much the strength of a healing DPS class over a zero-burst DPS class. A model that mercs were to an extent previously excluded from, because merc self heals sucked arse (we were usually outhealed by Juggs heh).

Wondered if you had any thoughts on this.

When the second point is spent, Energy shield goes from a 3 min cooldown to a 1 min cooldown for all practical purposes. (Energy Rebounder)

No Merc worth anything is spending the second point in that part of utilities for Energy Rebounder, and if they are, then stun then and dps them down because they don't get the benefit of 30% dmg reduction (as well as already having lost 20% armour vs you).

Is it not enough you can reduce our armour by 20%? Or throw us around like a ragdoll? Or leap away using intercede to a friendly target for a few while waiting out the shield? Or use one of the numerous points you actually can spend increasing your own mobility and movement speed, removal of effects on yourself?

No?

I really can see it's a L2P issue for you. Also, you're playing a DPS spec, you're not meant to be able to face tank. Adjust your own playstyle to counter, it's what good Merc players have been doing for YEARS.