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Going to leave this here even though its not what was asked:

 

The opening BH cutscene needs to be cleaned up when picking a combat style not originally from BH.

 

It looks weird as hell for my BH with a commando combat style carrying his heavy cannon and then looking like he shot electricity from his hand to knock out the runaway guy - maybe have an alternative where the character pulls a gun out and stuns him?

 

Otherwise, its weird and jarring, especially if I were a new player, it would be a poor first impression.

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Have to agree with others based on the tree I am seeing, the whole point of all these class changes was to reset the play field so everything is more balanced, but right now mercenaries are still able to have access to most of their hyper strong defensives and passives that boost them while many other classes either lose something big to get their defensives or simply dont have as many anymore.

 

I definitely feel mercs need less DCDs if we are to try balance them with every other spec in the game in 7.0

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Have to agree with others based on the tree I am seeing, the whole point of all these class changes was to reset the play field so everything is more balanced, but right now mercenaries are still able to have access to most of their hyper strong defensives and passives that boost them while many other classes either lose something big to get their defensives or simply dont have as many anymore.

 

I definitely feel mercs need less DCDs if we are to try balance them with every other spec in the game in 7.0

 

And yet again Merc is currently losing the most abilities/utilities at a disproportionate rate (7 to everyone elses 5). Not to mention haven't seen their BiS gear have a legendary equivalent, yet.

 

But yes lets nerf a class thats already losing the vital 30% AoE/Stun Damage reduction bc.... Why? I mean its downright insanity thinking Mercs will have more survivability then a class that has that. The majority of meaningful damage a DPS takes is AoE damage, PvP no stun defense good luck with that with how OP stuns are currently & showing no rebalancing....

 

These posts genuinely feel like people haven't looked into the fine print/details. Merc are giving up an excessive amount of things in comparison to how much other classes have their utilities baked in.

 

But lets be honest everything is going to be less fun to play at this point so sure why not just take all our abilities and give us a damage button so people will be happy.

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The opening BH cutscene needs to be cleaned up when picking a combat style not originally from BH.

 

It looks weird as hell for my BH with a commando combat style carrying his heavy cannon and then looking like he shot electricity from his hand to knock out the runaway guy - maybe have an alternative where the character pulls a gun out and stuns him?

 

Otherwise, its weird and jarring, especially if I were a new player, it would be a poor first impression.

 

This ^ is an excellent point and goes along with what i've been saying (aka "complaining" ) about for years: One of the many unforeseen problems with BioWare's constant rotating transient dev teams changing the guts-of-the-game every couple years is that it tends to render much of the rest-of-the-game-attractions (cinematics , cut-scenes, & such) somewhat misleading & moot.

 

It's sloppy game design, imo , and i've always believed BioWare was better than that type of thing.

 

Still do. :ph_use_the_force:

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I really cant understand why ppl complain so much about mercs survivability. All our shields have no effect on dots or aoe,so they need to be used wisely, and if the enemy knows what to do,they are pretty much not that powerfull dcds. Mercs have second tier dps,and if u compare to almost any other class ,merc's dps underperforms. So,ye,I'm not surprised they arent taking our dcds away,since they arent making our dps higher as sorcs,snipers,pt, operative and so on.

I'm personaly ok with every changes they made but the hydraulic overide one. Without it,we goin to be easy pray against globaling, stealth gangs and jugg roots. They basicaly goin to make mercs fight as melee,most of the times,since we wont be able to get away from slows and roots. Our Rocket out cant be used while rooted,so its going to be a mess. Basically all u gonna have to do in order tokill a merc is root em and dot/aoe till they gone. And yet,operatives have everything(top tier dps,top tier utility and top tier dcd,plus heals)...what a joke.

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I really cant understand why ppl complain so much about mercs survivability. All our shields have no effect on dots or aoe,so they need to be used wisely, and if the enemy knows what to do,they are pretty much not that powerfull dcds. Mercs have second tier dps,and if u compare to almost any other class ,merc's dps underperforms. So,ye,I'm not surprised they arent taking our dcds away,since they arent making our dps higher as sorcs,snipers,pt, operative and so on.

I'm personaly ok with every changes they made but the hydraulic overide one. Without it,we goin to be easy pray against globaling, stealth gangs and jugg roots. They basicaly goin to make mercs fight as melee,most of the times,since we wont be able to get away from slows and roots. Our Rocket out cant be used while rooted,so its going to be a mess. Basically all u gonna have to do in order tokill a merc is root em and dot/aoe till they gone. And yet,operatives have everything(top tier dps,top tier utility and top tier dcd,plus heals)...what a joke.

 

Dude- your damage is good enough, you got the strongest dcds in the game, you got perma slows build in your rota, you got e-net, you got double rocket out, you got a 30 m range- you don't need hydros, if you do, maybe its time to get good...you have more tools to survive than anyone else, barely loosing any in the upcoming patch while other classes got nerfed to oblivion and you are still complaining?! lmao big time! mercs needed to feel the nerf hammer harder than any other class in the game except conc ops. get real and l2p

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I really cant understand why ppl complain so much about mercs survivability. All our shields have no effect on dots or aoe,so they need to be used wisely, and if the enemy knows what to do,they are pretty much not that powerfull dcds. Mercs have second tier dps,and if u compare to almost any other class ,merc's dps underperforms. So,ye,I'm not surprised they arent taking our dcds away,since they arent making our dps higher as sorcs,snipers,pt, operative and so on.

I'm personaly ok with every changes they made but the hydraulic overide one. Without it,we goin to be easy pray against globaling, stealth gangs and jugg roots. They basicaly goin to make mercs fight as melee,most of the times,since we wont be able to get away from slows and roots. Our Rocket out cant be used while rooted,so its going to be a mess. Basically all u gonna have to do in order tokill a merc is root em and dot/aoe till they gone. And yet,operatives have everything(top tier dps,top tier utility and top tier dcd,plus heals)...what a joke.

 

Dude- your damage is good enough, you got the strongest dcds in the game, you got perma slows build in your rota, you got e-net, you got double rocket out, you got a 30 m range- you don't need hydros, if you do, maybe its time to get good...you have more tools to survive than anyone else, barely loosing any in the upcoming patch while other classes got nerfed to oblivion and you are still complaining?! lmao big time! mercs needed to feel the nerf hammer harder than any other class in the game except conc ops. get real and l2p

I'm not the one complaining about mercs dcds. I love that u admit we have "good enough" dmg,and want us to lose a dcd,sou want us to have mid tier dps and mid tier survivability. Try not to gutter a class just bcos YOU dont know how to fight em. Merc dcds are pretty easy to counter. I can name u a few better dcds than merc's,and some of em can be found in classes with insane burst,which mercs dont have.

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lol...I know how to fight a merc-that doen't make them less overbuffed considering the condition other classes are in...

 

It is funny that quite literally everyone but merc players seem to see how overpowered mercs are. Their main excuse has always been "everyone who thinks mercs are OP clearly doesnt know how to counter the obvious to counter dcds" even when in the post people show they know the weakness of those dcds which dont really matter when you think it as a full encounter rather than a "haha you popped reflect, im gonna just aoe and dot, i ve found your weakness" *Meanwhile merc is able to fully dps or heal themselves casually while you are tickling him*

 

Not only do they have godmode dcds that if rotated properly through good useage of their rest of the toolkit they are gonna be up again by the time the 3 healthbars are down, they have decent burst, self heals, NET and escapes.

 

And some people are talking as if how a class parses on a dummy matters, in pvp it is heavily about burst windows and how susceptible they are to interference, and with how simple merc dps is along with heartseeker burst their dps in pvp is nowhere near as bad as some pretend it is.

 

The class needs at the very least heavy dcd nerfs, making them choose between reflect and blue shield could be a decent solution because even if they still have 2 strong dcds, it would be a lot harder to rotate due to the cooldown times.

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It is funny that quite literally everyone but merc players seem to see how overpowered mercs are. Their main excuse has always been "everyone who thinks mercs are OP clearly doesnt know how to counter the obvious to counter dcds" even when in the post people show they know the weakness of those dcds which dont really matter when you think it as a full encounter rather than a "haha you popped reflect, im gonna just aoe and dot, i ve found your weakness" *Meanwhile merc is able to fully dps or heal themselves casually while you are tickling him*

 

Not only do they have godmode dcds that if rotated properly through good useage of their rest of the toolkit they are gonna be up again by the time the 3 healthbars are down, they have decent burst, self heals, NET and escapes.

 

And some people are talking as if how a class parses on a dummy matters, in pvp it is heavily about burst windows and how susceptible they are to interference, and with how simple merc dps is along with heartseeker burst their dps in pvp is nowhere near as bad as some pretend it is.

 

The class needs at the very least heavy dcd nerfs, making them choose between reflect and blue shield could be a decent solution because even if they still have 2 strong dcds, it would be a lot harder to rotate due to the cooldown times.

 

Nobody saying mercs have bad dmg. It just happens that mercs are mid tier dps,while most of the classes/specs used for pvp have more dps than mercs. Mercs only get there in the dps counting due to the good use of their dcds,so they survive more,to hit more. If u strip one or 2 dcds without increasing its dmg to top tier,u going to kill the class cos they'll die alot easier and so wont sustain their dps.

 

Mercs are the exact oposite to PTs. Imo,asking devs to take away one of mercs dcd,but keeping their dps as it is,is like asking them to give one more dcd to PTs,without nerfing their dmg. U just going to mess with the balance of the classes.

 

You guys complainin about mercs dcds like they were nearly unkilable and got immunity to any kind of dmg. Come on...responsive safeguard(reflect) has 2min cd,and kolto overload(the 60%) heal has even more! Merc selfheals wont make em survive unless they are kitting and using it,which any class with selfheals can do too.the only shield that has low cd, is the energy shield(blue one),but it decreases only 25% of any direct dmg,which is lower than sin,mara and jugg dcds dmg mitigation. What makes it good than? It heals the merc for a % of the DIRECT dmg he suffered while the shield was on,after the shield ran off. Most of good dps classes can kill a merc while using energy shield,even with direct dmg,cos 25% mitigation isnt really that much. I know cos I kill alot of mercs like that. Just avoid to hit their reflect and he wont get 3 health bars. They only have 3 health bars cos ppl are stupid and wont learn how to deal with their dcds. Its completly diff from some other class abilities,like jugg's enraged defense,where any type of dmg heals em. The only class that really has 3 health bars,is the jugg,when using grit teeth. And even so they arent immortal,and its undestandable since they are q melee without PTs dmg and cant stealth out like other melee classes.

 

Hypoteticaly, in a fight where nobody uses any dcds,or maybe just one,what class would lose in a 1v1 to a merc? I mean,maybe mara or sin,if the merc is good and can control em. Any other class,and even those 2 can 1v1 easily a merc in a dmg duel. So, my point is...u want us to lose a dcd? Fine by me. But our dmg gonna have to be higher.

 

After all,imo,the only specs/classes that should get a small nerf are concealment op and immortal jugg. The only ones that need a small buff are all the marauder specs, rage jugg, madness sorc and the dot sin which I always forget the name xD. The others are just fine as they are. I do believe some changes they making are just dumb,indeed,and they should rethink most of em. I hope they realize that.

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Its honestly just people not knowing the strategies to counter mercs. You just fight them in the same way you do an Immortal, CCs and wait out their DCDs. Its why they've limited stun breaks bc thats how you handle them. As Doug stated this is why they're lower DPS then others. A Merc is literally survive then burst.

 

It's literally the identity of the class people want changed. But sure lets keep asking for even more removed in an entire update centered around nerfing the game. Its why we can't have nice things :p

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guys you need to understand-every class looses dcds! you argue that loosing one would kill the class-no it won'T cause everyone else looses dcds as well, you are the only class still able to spec in all your dcds-that is just wrong and problematic. mercs allready were problematic and will be even more if nothing gets changed. you complain about loosing a 30 aoe damage reduction, which you shouldn't have had in the first place-you are ranged for gods sake, if you have trouble getting too much aoe lern to position yourself properly. classes that need that don't have it-melee. and a class which got the most dcds of all complain about loosing something they shouldn't have had in the first place. your damage might be midtier-still good enough cause you live way longer than most classes cause of your overabdundance of strong dcds+ you got the abillity to selfheal on top. its laughable...if you can't survive loosing a dcd while still having net, double rocket out, being ranged, knockback, perma slows build in your rota and solid damage -the problem is in the lack of skill of the vast majority of merc mains. and if it happens that mercs might be at the end of the foodchain again, then so be it, lots of specs are right now too-you had 3+ solid years being on top, time to shake up the meta! mercs need to be brought down to lvl the playing field-no second opinion on this! conc ops need this even more tbh...
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guys you need to understand-every class looses dcds! you argue that loosing one would kill the class-no it won'T cause everyone else looses dcds as well, you are the only class still able to spec in all your dcds-that is just wrong and problematic. mercs allready were problematic and will be even more if nothing gets changed. you complain about loosing a 30 aoe damage reduction, which you shouldn't have had in the first place-you are ranged for gods sake, if you have trouble getting too much aoe lern to position yourself properly. classes that need that don't have it-melee. and a class which got the most dcds of all complain about loosing something they shouldn't have had in the first place. your damage might be midtier-still good enough cause you live way longer than most classes cause of your overabdundance of strong dcds+ you got the abillity to selfheal on top. its laughable...if you can't survive loosing a dcd while still having net, double rocket out, being ranged, knockback, perma slows build in your rota and solid damage -the problem is in the lack of skill of the vast majority of merc mains. and if it happens that mercs might be at the end of the foodchain again, then so be it, lots of specs are right now too-you had 3+ solid years being on top, time to shake up the meta! mercs need to be brought down to lvl the playing field-no second opinion on this! conc ops need this even more tbh...

 

You talk like mercs didnt get nerf at all. They can keep almost all their dcds, yes,but lost mobility a control(mercs lost their only hard stun and skill thst offers immunity to pull,push and slow). Take away one of their dcds now,and u'll just destroy the class,as mercs wont be able to get away from melees as easy as they do now without hydraulic, and gonna get globaled way easier too. Imagine that without one of the dcds? Keep in mind mercs lost the only dcd that gave em dmg mitigation to aoe, which is one of their biggest weakness. No,the nerfing was already way too harsh,as it was on every class,apart from operative. I do agree the most affected class was the jugg class,and I believe the dps specs shouldnt be that nerfed(rage deserved a buff actualy).

And lets be honest. Juggs having to choose either mad dash or saber reflect is praticaly the same thing that mercs having to choose either responsive safeguard or hydraulic. I see many juggs complaining about that and I find it funny that some of em come to say that merc is getting out intact. Lol. I agree that changing grit teeth is dumb tho. They should have just nerf skank tanks dps to the ground,the same way assassins and powertech tanks are and that would be fine already.

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The discussion is confusing. People are discussing as if abilities and balance in PVP and PVE are the same. Arsenal Mercs burst very well and that's what makes them dangerous in PVP, but sustained damage is bottom of the barrel, which plays no part in PVP. If you get off a full rotation in PVP you're playing against a bad opponent. So, the abilities that are grouped together for certain choices affect PVP and PVE differently. Mercs are bad at dummy parsing when compared to other classes. It's their utilities and mobility that make them even viable in Ops. It sounds like these changes/choices need to be geared toward whether a person seems to be building toward PVP or PVE. If, at the first selection, a person chooses a prominent PVP selection, cater the next selections to achieve the balance you want in PVP. I play Merc mostly in PVE, and if some of these changes take affect for PVE I'll probably just stop playing all together. I play for mobility and utility, like a Merc/BH should have. If I wanted superior DPS I'd play a different class.
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You talk like mercs didnt get nerf at all. They can keep almost all their dcds, yes,but lost mobility a control(mercs lost their only hard stun and skill thst offers immunity to pull,push and slow). Take away one of their dcds now,and u'll just destroy the class,as mercs wont be able to get away from melees as easy as they do now without hydraulic, and gonna get globaled way easier too. Imagine that without one of the dcds? Keep in mind mercs lost the only dcd that gave em dmg mitigation to aoe, which is one of their biggest weakness. No,the nerfing was already way too harsh,as it was on every class,apart from operative. I do agree the most affected class was the jugg class,and I believe the dps specs shouldnt be that nerfed(rage deserved a buff actualy).

And lets be honest. Juggs having to choose either mad dash or saber reflect is praticaly the same thing that mercs having to choose either responsive safeguard or hydraulic. I see many juggs complaining about that and I find it funny that some of em come to say that merc is getting out intact. Lol. I agree that changing grit teeth is dumb tho. They should have just nerf skank tanks dps to the ground,the same way assassins and powertech tanks are and that would be fine already.

 

The level 70/73 choices are similar, but the difference is that Merc starts the fight with a ranged advantage. I can see why they opted to put hydraulic overrides as the 70/73 choice instead of rocket out. A Merc will cover way more distance with hydraulic overrides than rocket out, and it had an immunity buff which limits counterplay. Thematically a Merc that can't boost makes about as much sense as a force user that can't deflect blaster bolts, so I am glad Mercs kept rocket out. However, we're basically in a situation where melee leaps to a Merc, Merc hits rocket out, then we're back to square one. If you catch back up Merc just knocks you back / e-nets and now you get to stand there like a smart guy and get destroyed.

 

Mad Dash / Saber Reflect is a much more punishing choice for Juggs since we can't spec into Enrage movement speed boost anymore. Chilling Scream is removed and the movement speed boost that went along with it as well as Through Power and the movement speed boost + immunity that came with that.

 

Realistically a Merc is just going to choose thrill of the hunt + responsive safeguards and carry on with their lives. They'll be softer targets for sure with the Kolto changes, but they'll enjoy a much greater movement speed advantage + DCD advantage than they currently have on live. Unless of course Bioware removes / reduces the amount of movement impairing effects that melee are currently subjected to.

 

It's obvious Bioware tried to standardize the type of choices we have to make, which is great, but they didn't account for the fact that one class is ranged and the other is melee.

 

So yes Mercs were subjected to a solid nerf, but it's hardly even given the destruction Juggs / Marauders have endured. It will be almost impossible to catch Mercs in a 1v1 scenario unless they limit rocket out to one charge at the very least.

 

This is a problem of Bioware's own creation lol. Let's see what they do (if anything) to attempt to fix it. I'll help them out. The answer is not to break Mercs even more.

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The discussion is confusing. People are discussing as if abilities and balance in PVP and PVE are the same. Arsenal Mercs burst very well and that's what makes them dangerous in PVP, but sustained damage is bottom of the barrel, which plays no part in PVP. If you get off a full rotation in PVP you're playing against a bad opponent. So, the abilities that are grouped together for certain choices affect PVP and PVE differently. Mercs are bad at dummy parsing when compared to other classes. It's their utilities and mobility that make them even viable in Ops. It sounds like these changes/choices need to be geared toward whether a person seems to be building toward PVP or PVE. If, at the first selection, a person chooses a prominent PVP selection, cater the next selections to achieve the balance you want in PVP. I play Merc mostly in PVE, and if some of these changes take affect for PVE I'll probably just stop playing all together. I play for mobility and utility, like a Merc/BH should have. If I wanted superior DPS I'd play a different class.

 

I retract my statement lol. Bc while I disagree with some parts. What you're saying I can agree with for the most part.

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The level 70/73 choices are similar, but the difference is that Merc starts the fight with a ranged advantage. I can see why they opted to put hydraulic overrides as the 70/73 choice instead of rocket out. A Merc will cover way more distance with hydraulic overrides than rocket out, and it had an immunity buff which limits counterplay. Thematically a Merc that can't boost makes about as much sense as a force user that can't deflect blaster bolts, so I am glad Mercs kept rocket out. However, we're basically in a situation where melee leaps to a Merc, Merc hits rocket out, then we're back to square one. If you catch back up Merc just knocks you back / e-nets and now you get to stand there like a smart guy and get destroyed.

 

Mad Dash / Saber Reflect is a much more punishing choice for Juggs since we can't spec into Enrage movement speed boost anymore. Chilling Scream is removed and the movement speed boost that went along with it as well as Through Power and the movement speed boost + immunity that came with that.

 

Realistically a Merc is just going to choose thrill of the hunt + responsive safeguards and carry on with their lives. They'll be softer targets for sure with the Kolto changes, but they'll enjoy a much greater movement speed advantage + DCD advantage than they currently have on live. Unless of course Bioware removes / reduces the amount of movement impairing effects that melee are currently subjected to.

 

It's obvious Bioware tried to standardize the type of choices we have to make, which is great, but they didn't account for the fact that one class is ranged and the other is melee.

 

So yes Mercs were subjected to a solid nerf, but it's hardly even given the destruction Juggs / Marauders were subjected to. It will be almost impossible to catch Mercs in a 1v1 scenario unless they limit rocket out to one charge at the very least.

 

This is a problem of Bioware's own creation lol. Let's see what they do (if anything) to attempt to fix it. I'll help them out. The answer is not to break Mercs even more.

 

Well,I agree warriors/knights got nerfed more. Tho I think the skank juggs deserved to be nerfed, I feel like some of the other changes on the dps specs were too harsh and should be reworked. But that dosent mean mercs didnt get nerfed, and believe me mercs goin to be the easiest range for melee to jump to,since we lost mobility and control. Fight to see bw changing the dps jugg specs, but mercs dont deserve to be even more nerfed bcos of it.

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I retract my statement lol. Bc while I disagree with some parts. What you're saying I can agree with for the most part.

 

I mean, how many raid bosses do you get to hard stun? So, the hard stun is probably something you can do without if your primary gameplay is Ops. My guess, though, is that ALL Mercs, while in PVP, keep their hard stun on cool down for the most part. It's a staple of the class that gives you a fighting change against a harder hitting, harder to kill melee class. Stunning them, pushing them away, slowing them, and rocketing out (utilities) are your lifeblood in PVP. Very few Op Boss fights rely on any of those things.

 

Maybe they should seriously consider having a PVP and PVE toggle or quickload so you can make different selections for different content. It would alleviate some of the problems I'm seeing mentioned here.

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It's obvious Bioware tried to standardize the type of choices we have to make, which is great, but they didn't account for the fact that one class is ranged and the other is melee.

 

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that is the core of the problem- mercs are ranged, range is kinda a def in itself, which means that they got too many dcds + tools on top of being ranged. but the same goes for other ranged classes as well...range classes should always do less damage and be more squishy than melee, which they do not atm. this needs to change fundamentally. especially considering the amount of slows and roots ranged class have to make life miserable for a melee trying to get to ranged...

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that is the core of the problem- mercs are ranged, range is kinda a def in itself, which means that they got too many dcds + tools on top of being ranged. but the same goes for other ranged classes as well...range classes should always do less damage and be more squishy than melee, which they do not atm. this needs to change fundamentally. especially considering the amount of slows and roots ranged class have to make life miserable for a melee trying to get to ranged...

 

That would be true if melees didnt have tons of gap fillers to approach ranged,and so many control and immunity. Also all the melee classes have either stealth abilities or better defenses than ranged. U play a jugg,a class that have tons of dcds that if rotated well,can make a huge impact in pvp;tons of CC,stuns,slows etc;and u are a good dps class,if played correctly. With that being said,I agree that some of the changes were to harsh and shouldnt go live. But that dosent mean mercs didnt get nerf too,and need to get even more nerf.They should just give mad dash back to juggs not as a choice and change back the grit teeth effect and nerf skank tanks dps. And thats all

 

I already said that,and I'll repeat: snipers have more control,dps and immunity to control than mercs,plus they have phase,and melees cant jump or teleport to em while they are in crouch And sorcs have more mobility and dps than us,plus they can also phase. So, ye,thats why mercs have their dcds. Keep in mind that energy shield(blue shield) mitigates only 25% of dmg taken,while warriors shields mitigate 40%-50%.And while the melee mitigation works for every kind of dmg,the merc ones only works for direct dmg.

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saying that juggs only need mad dash back und grit teeth change undone and they will be fine disqualifies you from a serious conversation, cause they are not fine in 6.0 at all. ED isn't scaled properly scince 5.0 days, endure pain is completly useless, mad dashs cd is way to long compared to cds of other escapes, sabre ward doesn't negate damage it gives u dodge chance, reflect is capped, doesn't work against melee, we don't have 30% aoe reduction build in as you guys do in 6.0, etc, ppp.lets look at you, you got a self heal on all your defs, you can safe heal yourself on top, you got double rocket out, hydros, way too many slows and roots, freaking net+ a hard stun, heavy armor, you are ranged, solid burst, a knockback on half the cd as force push etc, ppp..... but yeah mercs are fine-lmao....
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A DPS spec Merc's heals are pretty worthless LOL. I'm pretty good with my Merc but I have a hard time beating even an average Jug in PVP... and most of the time it isn't even close. It's very hard to kill a Jug in PVP 1 on 1. You usually need 2 people to gang up on them.

 

And, in PVE, any group would take a Jug over a Merc for DPS any day unless they actually needed a ranged, and even then they would prefer a Sniper. So, talk about the abilities all you want, they still leave Mercs lacking in PVP and PVE.

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A DPS spec Merc's heals are pretty worthless LOL..

 

My rapid scan as an Arsenal currently heals on a mid level crit for 22k, high end just under 40k in PvP/Uncapped. It averages about 10% of my health per heal.

 

Just finished a 4v4, Healer had 0 dmg and 500k heals. I had 1.2mil Dmg and 700k heals.

 

I'm not sure how you're spec'd but Arsenal esp with such low alacrity breakpoints are very effective utility atm and can off heal probably better then any other spec. So I'd hardcore disagree.

 

And they'd be wrong to pick a Jugg over a Merc atm, but if you're following guides I can see that being a popular misconception due to the incorrect stat breakdowns most people use.

 

Currently only seen PTs pull more consistent DPS vs. a perfectly spec'd Apex build in PvE. Viru comes close, but with zeal and inherit alacrity 3% allowing 1.3 gcds at 514 stat gives too much free stats to move into crit.

 

Also not checked on the PTS in a few. Have they said what those mysterious choices are yet?

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saying that juggs only need mad dash back und grit teeth change undone and they will be fine disqualifies you from a serious conversation, cause they are not fine in 6.0 at all. ED isn't scaled properly scince 5.0 days, endure pain is completly useless, mad dashs cd is way to long compared to cds of other escapes, sabre ward doesn't negate damage it gives u dodge chance, reflect is capped, doesn't work against melee, we don't have 30% aoe reduction build in as you guys do in 6.0, etc, ppp.lets look at you, you got a self heal on all your defs, you can safe heal yourself on top, you got double rocket out, hydros, way too many slows and roots, freaking net+ a hard stun, heavy armor, you are ranged, solid burst, a knockback on half the cd as force push etc, ppp..... but yeah mercs are fine-lmao....

 

Lets see..juggs have more dps than mercs atm,have too many gap fillers and immunity to push and stuns,have more stuns and slows than mercs,plus their dcds have way more mitigation dmg than merc's dcds. But the problem is the healing effect of mercs dcds,right? Well,they only work on direct dmg,while jugg's enrage defense works on any kind of dmg,and with grit teeth u can use it very often. So...I feel like u just want ur fav class to be better and the others to be easy targets. Thats not gonna happen,bro.

As it is now on live server, its very balanced tho. I'd say only concealment ops and skank juggs are overtuned. But if u look on pts,then ye,juggs got nerfed harder and I think they should get at least mad dash back. That dosent mean mercs didnt get nerf. It just happens that juggs got more screwed than any other class. So go and try to convice devs to make some chages on juggs, instead of trying to nerf mercs more than they got nerfed already.🙂

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