I'm a lvl 45 Scrapper Scoundrel (yes i'm 45 I don't have crazy PVP gear and i have no expertise, don't just sit on that) I have seen what my lvl 50 friends can do, and i go to Ilum enough to see what lvl 50 battlemaster scoundrels look like there. and ever since 1.1.0a I haven't seen any of us own that much. i usually top the warzone board in medals and damage, and sometimes even healing, but that's because i'm a lvl 45 grouped with a bunch of lvl 20s. Either way, today i finished a game of huttball, The top 5 people were as follows:
Me (scoundrel)
Imperial Agent (sniper)
Imperial Agent (sniper)
Imperial Agent (sniper)
Imperial Agent (operative)
Jedi Knight (Sentinel)
to me this doesn't show us being crazy good, but rather the snipers having crazy DPS, but wait, that is what they are for. And of course no one complains about them because they are out of sight more or less when they hit you hard, meaning you don't see them, you don't care. Scoundrels/Operatives, really don't need a patch like this, Yes, i can deal with a 20% Damage nerf with shoot first/operative equivalent, but 30% Armor penetration, more or less that means we can kill a light armour without a bubble around them fairly quickly, and can't really kill anything else at all, due to the fact that our sustained DPS is the lowest of any class. Guys, we are a stealth burst class, we are supposed to come out of stealth and burst damage you with all we have, hopefully we crit, and hit you hard, but there's no way in hell a Battlemaster geared Scoundrel or Operative is beating any other Battlemaster geared class while they are still on their face. And don't say i don't know because i'm 45, I've seen tons of it go on from the sidelines, and on YouTube and just by simply doing the math, It just doesn't happen anymore after the patch for buff stacking, if anyone should know that it's BioWare.