They killed a whole class

Usually a class being fotm implies people actually play the class.

Vanish is your gap closer, your escape mechanism and your in-combat burst, or double frontload, ambush > backstab > vanish > ambush.

Like vanish, and later cos/vanish, it is basically you're one button that you need in half a dozen situations

Honestly I've seen too many MMOs nerf a class and leave it there for a whole expansion. It took them a month to nerf Ops, I doubt we'll see any buffs to any trees any time soon.

I'm not sure if this nerf will balance things or not, but if they miss and its underpowered, don't expect any buffs. The community wanted Ops nerfed and they got it. Whether it balances things out doesn't matter.

I played a Scount in DAOC and that was an op class. I could take out whole groups solo, and you'd have 2-3 posts not about the class but about you; that was the closest to god mode I've played. The community got up in arms about it to the point they were harassing devs at the their work.


Scouts got nerfed, and rightly so, but the problem was all Scouts did well was PVP, they weren't invited to groups, and you had to solo to 50. None of that was addressed, and it felt more out of spite than balance. I see some of that with Operatives / Scoundrels, it does one good thing and that's burst. Its not the best healer, Lethality is a useless tree, and now I'm not sure its viability in raids. Look up the Operative forums, they're even terrible at leveling.

As an Operative some of the fast kills were fun, but highly conditional, but being the class that will be inevitably nerfed is no fun either. Trust me, the class is not all roses, there are some major problems with the gameplay and its function in wz's.

A shame it has a 2 minute cooldown and is defeated with a dot or stealth detection or aoe.

lol this.

I think you quoted the wrong person. I know what Vanish is used for.

CRY MORE your op and you know it so stop crying i played my friends 50 op yesterday in half pvp and i STOMPED 50s in champ gear while beating my meat at the same time

I must have the reflexes of a cat because I am able to vanish before a dot ticks and reopen, thought I would school you on this neat trick.

That tactic works MIRACLES for a medic trying to escape fire.

Oh...

this thread obviously isnt geared towards medics, get with the program. I was just teaching people some neat tricks that I learned as an elite battlemaster Scoundrel.