I recall I was on my Op on DK at about 14 (you know, when I had...um. Yeah.) so I grouped up for a heroic quest and I used snipe and darts and whathaveyou. Some oh-so helpful Sorc decided to get pissy and tell me that I am a Melee character and that I was hurting the group. So I, of course, got pissy back and asked him what the hell he thought I should be using at level 14 to do decent melee damage. Silence descended upon party chat. My scoundral was on Taris and again, I'm in a group. At this stage I have back blast to work with and weave that with kicks and whips, but when all of these things are on cooldown I do in fact crouch down and shoot at things. Beats standing around going 'Derp derp', you know? And I say this as someone who is in the fact the melee spec. I ask you, was the Ops/Scoundrel the melee spec? Do you actually know what they were, or did you just assume for the sake of assumptions? Were they using melee abilities and then strafing back out of range? (I do this on my gunslinger. Sharpshooter is oh so boring, sometimes a girl needs to kick things or smack them with her gun to keep herself awake.)