Actually even in PvE I'd say Marauders and Powertech Pyros are on the same lvl, well of course It's not 100% accurate measurement but my guildies who raid as marauder do about 1450-1500 dps on the operations dummy on their ship, while I do about 1500 DPS on my dummy as well, PvE gear PvE dummy, of course everyone is different though, I'm sure there is other PTs and marauders who do more than that or less than but it seemed pretty even so far. I agree that they both have their weaknessed to, Marauders don't have ranged attacks but they do have better defensive cooldowns to survive with.

Is your setinel Villeta? Anyways, I've seen SS of a marauder doing 720k damage and a Sage doing 960k so It's not like Powertechs are the only ones capable of high damage. Marauders are on the same lvl of damage as PTs with far better defensive cooldowns, blade warding alone is way better than Powertech's energy shield, which is 25% damage reduction. They also have other defensive cooldowns that they can put in rotation with it and survive MUCH longer than any PT can upfront, if I played a marauder I could get past 700k to, cause It's really not that hard when you que with some good players and a healer. Honestly this post would of been a bit better if you were a class that's suffering right now like sorc healer, which they die in less than 10 seconds to me, or even to any marauder who mashes his keys without even using an interupt.

Ya, I thought about the same thing many times. It all comes down to us needing a real deal damage meter, without that we'l never truely know

ya, I can't remember how much crit the aim gave me but the aim effects everything we do including railgun so I've always rolled with it, mainly cause I PvEd to, but honestly 4/6/31 is probably just as good to. wouldn't make much of a difference in the end I suppose

ya I didn't really think about frapsing that day, I was just skeptical after the recent nerf. I have uploaded a 750k video on youtube though if you guys wanted to see my play style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVIaRjTsjTo This video was frapsed before the 1.2 change, spammable railgun

nah I don't get the armor, 9% bonus aim gave me like 33 more ranged bonus damage so 6% would be 22 or so, but I haven't actually check with just the 6% hehe

Nah I never use 4/6/31. I usually run 7/3/31 for PvP, I run 8/2/31 for PvE and PvP if I'm too cheap to respec at the time. I'm fairely sure railgun is a ranged attack that is not a tech spell so the 3% tech crit in AP won't work for it

Merc is still a solid class, I sometimes I think the same way. It's the grass is greener effect

Hi guys, just showing the results of a match after the 1.2. This was done with just the regular BM set and alot of healing. http://s1256.photobucket.com/albums/ii489/ephex01/?action=view&current=Screenshot_2012-04-14_14_57_02_826377-1.jpg