Because 'your' damage numbers are a factual representation of the state of the dps compared to lightning?? RNG is RNG even for parsing. We need to wait a lot longer so we have more data samples to compare. Still recon arsenal is higher than lightning though (Non bugged ones of course).

There are already two high parses for dirty fighting on parsely - 9.9 and 9.8k. However remember these are usually the lucky parses, not the average. Engineering also has a few 10kish parses up there post nerf. Nerf seems fine, took them down from being well over tuned like they were, to 'balanced'. I have a feeling in 5.4 or sooner the last few over performing specs, even for melee sustained (looking at you lethality operative!) will get a small nerf.

The tears in this thread are glorious. Such a long time as the top dog healer, blatently overpowered which ruined pvp and made pve healing trivial. The moment they get balanced to be equal to mercs and operative healers the crys of OMG unsub and not playing anymore come out. If you cant heal on anything that is not overpowered, dont heal at all, period. Balance is good for the game.

Can you please tell us when you'll be posting more class balance changes? This is by far my most anticipated change in the next patch and would love to know the balance change plans

/signed

Not sure what you are getting at here, often i dont agree reading what evo says when just browsing and reading but i fully agree with him here regarding healing. Anybody who has played this game along time knows what he means, damage vs health pools has been getting worse with each expansion. This has contributed to healing getting out of control that's been increasing exponentially each expansion. Too little damage going out, too easy to heal players and heal numbers are far too high. This is experience over time he is referring to, not "cuz proof", you cant 'slap proof' on trends over time unless he constantly logs and takes screenshots over years, which c'mon that's just not going to happen. Throw in what i hear many say about guard also being too strong and we have a very low deaths meta that we have now. Its stale, boring and has further helped pvp decline, aside from the ugly command xp gain why people queue. Only good thing i can think to balance it out is perform a stat squish next expansion (numbers are getting silly now), and tweak the ratios of dmg/guard/heal in pvp. Also some kind of cross healing debuff in regs would also be good but no idea how they could implement this. This would help stop healer stacking being so effective, sort of a diminishing return for using too many healers and nobody ever dying.

And missile blast sucks awfully bad, the new animations look better. I see no problem here

As a player since beta and launch all these years, and running a guild that has raided the entire time. This has to be the most dumbfounded design decision I have EVER seen for this game. This makes absolutely zero sense, even dulfy is having a dig at the sheer stupidity of this change. NiM is significantly harder than highlighted 'casual' modes each week and as such should reward the best gear 100% in all of them. TBH you should be giving out 228 gear set just for NiM only so the prog raiders actually get rewarded. What incentive is there now? nothing, none, and not even to be "fixed" until feb. Massive let down, starting to have enough with this game after hundreds of £'s spent on it.

It was edited out at some point after the initial posting, but i also saw the post about him only wielding one blaster. Guessing they removed it as it was incorrect, either way technically everyone is correct and they have screenshots to prove it, bioware omitted it

There is a chance it is yes but many people raised tickets and made posts back in 1.4 when changes came out and it was never confirmed if intentional or a bug, the majority of people assumed it was a bug but to this day we still have no confirmation of it. Id just like them to look into it and if it is a bug, please fix because really im not lying, the old effects were far better, its just on those 4. the fusion missile one is just a launch sound bug (100% bug) but the other 3 had active sound changes.

Uh perhaps try to sound less condescending about what is essentially a bug report? No need for attitude for something you don't like when its a bug.

No mate you have no idea of the number of complaints posts that were made when they gutted many sound effects since 1.3, they sounded better then. If you think they sound fine now youd really love the original sound effects, there is a reason this is being called a bug.

See this thread and my post specifically on it as the issue still exists http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=8404968#post8404968 This bug still to this day since 1.4 drives me insane when playing arsenal merc and assault specialist commando

I cant believe this still has not been fixed, even with 4.0 mere 2 months away The original old sound vid link doesnt work, but this one does! This was recorded when 1.3 was live and sounds worked correctly, ever since then many ability sounds have been bugged/changed and have never been fixed. Tracer since 1.4 and to this date sounds horrendous, note on the video it has both charge up sound during the cast and a launch sound which sounds amazing, both were removed in 1.4 and the cast is almost silent and lost all its ooph. Heat seeker missile also sounds far better in this vid and has extra sound effects which played all time. Currently on live HSM only has a few of these extra sounds inside warzones and player ship, but still not as good as in this video i linked, when questing or pve operations absolutely none of the extra sounds occur, its the same sound every time, no wizz of the missiles or a flashy sound, just a dull plain click. Fusion missile has a similar bug to live HSM, its launch sound only plays in warzones and on the player ship, in the field and operations it doesnt make a launch sound, just silent, another bug. Charged bolts on commandos also lots its powerful fwush sound it made when it fired, it made 2 sound effects, the current one on live and the additional one which was removed, so since 1.4 it sounds incredibly weak and pitiful. Far worse than mercs powershots. Quickshot on smugglers used to make a powerful bang when shot, this was also removed, along with charged burst (but this one is no big loss, sounded silly). Main request: Please please fix the arsenal merc sound bugs and the charged bolts sound bug, restore them to their 1.3 glory where they actually had excellent sound design and sounded far more powerful, this will make myself and other arsenal players (and assault commandos that use charged bolts) far happier. Abilities in question to be restored and have bugs fixed: Tracer missile, Heatseeker missile, Fusion missile launch sound, charged bolts. It is only 4 abilities, thank you.

Yup its a sound bug issue mate, same with fusion missile, makes the launch sound on the ship and in pvp warzones but not anywhere else or operations. That and heatseeker as you said... Back in 1.3 they even had extra sound effects (heat seeker sounded even better than it does on the ship atm) and tracer missile even had a charge and launch sound when casting! 1.4 removed this and the sounds have been bugged/crappy since Sound restoration on these would be nice.... A load of other sounds got changed in 1.4 too for other classes, charged bolts (used to sound alot better), charged burst etc