Yep And its all about skills its so simple to fix too in 3 simple steps. 1 Gives mercs back the KB effect with rocket punch it really helped because of the short cd of rocket punch , i mean come "imobilize pfft "a short range imobolize move with a ranged dps omg 2 Give mercs back the 30 metre range fo their 4 poxy second stun only half decent defence move they have.and can stun one guy " BEFORE" they actaully have freaking charged and smashed you . 3. Give them a new decent defensive ability like that uses their jetback .boost back much like the sorcs teleport move in Aion. Done job

I think the main problem is showing itself more so now in the new 4v4 arenas ..the lack of defensive abilities is all to apparent, you get bombed by charging foes sent/gaurd/vangaurd,or whatever at the start as they have already targeted and marked you for a nice quick easy termination before the round even begins and boom after youve popped the aoe kb the only tactic available,they all seem to be back on you 1 second later, so now youve tried to stun 1 of them for 4 secs and he just pops cc breaker.. futile your dead.vans/PTs are the worst they know what your gunna do and jusr pop Hydrolic overides to negate the kb . I think its about time this had some looking at and why the hell did they change the kb effect in arsenel tree with rocket punch to " imobilize" i find it completly useless ( what am i supposed to do - rocket punch and imobilize a guy for what 1 or 2 seconds and run away ? yeh right-o ) and the kb atleast let you keep mele guys off you a bit more and have a bit better chance of suvival. I think they got that right the first time and should never have changed it ( I am a returning player so Dont know when or why this changed ). So to answer your question despite mercs having heavy armor yes they are the squishiest of all classes. DPS mercs i mean, ofc healers have more survival options availible to them. DPS mercs cant heal in these situations the instant AOE heal is pitiful with a couple meles on you, by the time youve waisted a GC on it to heal 1-2 K you will have lost alot more ..but you had to try smt right? I also have a DPS sorc and when i am focused i have the aoe kb a sprint and the 10 sec invunarability sheild and the a 4 sec stun, and a insta heal not a great heal but quicker and stronger than the merc one, Its not about armor its skills and the smartest thing a merc can do in random 4v4 hide for a bit because they really are almost always focused first and really gets frustraiting you must rely on your team to save your *** its not good enough. There should be like the legasy ability a 5 sec rocket boost that lets you fly away but you cant attack while flying or some kind of decent escape move.

Yeh and thats what our crying is all about it was crying that got the class nerfed and it will take counter crying that gets this class back to being a good char which we spent *********** months to get lvl 50 and full battlemaster and valor rank 80+ no i wont make another advanced class nor do i expect bioware to wave a magic wand to let me go from merc to PT i just want o hear smt from them about what the bloodyhell they were thinking destroying an arsnal merc so bad especially since pyrotree has always been broken from day one for mercs..yeh i can stll play this char and get 200k-300k damage in most wz`s but its mostly irrelivent damage now countered by heals and gaurded imba shelds did these gaurd sheilds get nerfed to balance the lack of dps we do now? NO. Pyromerc may sometimes seem like its ok but its kidding ourselfs I dont want to be as half as effective as a PT same spec ..we want arsnal fixed or some info from bioware about what they INTEND to do next for this class.

Yeh that would be awesome its just rediculas that the only usefull merc it a team is now a healer and even if i was willing to be a healer i would not want to because all my armour is eliminator and come on " healing bounty hunter pfft " in star wars lore BH`ters do just one thing hunt to kill or capture dead or alive your coming with me..not oh " you there there is a bounty on you i have come to heal you " injured or not your going to be healed by me" But really they will never give us an adavanced rechance, they could have done smt clever with the legacy system about that- as a high cost legacy perk,but with so many mutli millionairs about that would just pay for it like it was a no prob got tons of credits ill just do an advanced respec whenever i feel like ,and because it would be unfair to the other classes and the forums would be overloaded with operatives wanting to be snipers and jugs wanting to be marualders raging "its not fair im unsubing" And could you blame them?.And then there is this jetboost OMG hell what they should have done was to give mercs that jetboost because come on it dosnt take a genius to figure out thats what they made it for they arnt as stupid as they look (are they?) they know damn well mercs need a skill such as that especially after supernerf .But they bottled it- worried that it would have all the others raging on the forums crying "doh how come mercs get a new skill and not me:( hmff its not fair and im unsubbing sobysobysob ..so instead they just give it to everyone as a legacy dumb down gimmik and now we see sith fyling around as if they are wearing a jetpack shouting weeee look at meee heheeeeee!!!.just pathetic and not even lolable. They just hate arsnal mercs m8 its like we are their bastardchilds a complete embarasment to their game and they want us to just dissapear and powertecs are there pridechilds they can stay and play, they nerfed them a bit to shut the whiners up for 5 mins but didnt destroy it like merc.

Bioware when i first played my merc in pvp i thought you were being smart ...here i was with no usefull group skills to speak of and with no decent defense/suviibilty but with awesome ranged burst damage ..i understood my role perfectly WHICH WAS to put a big dent in priority tagets fast ,healer/ballcarrier or whatever and you have weak defenses so that other classes can mob you to try and stop you from doing your job.And i only had to take one look at those skill trees to realise arsnal was for mercs and this pyro tree was for any powertech wanting the dps role over a tank. I honestly thought this is what the class was INTENDED FOR yeh your fav word intended yeh great.., But *** is this **** im half BM half WH i am spending alot of time at the respec guy im lost i just cant find anydamn spec worth anything bar a pile of horse **** for burst damage now.AND with no usefull abilitys just what the hell good am i now?????? For all these people on the forums saying "hey its all ok its not so bad i just did 500k with my pyro merc in the voidstar guys it all good dont worry the class aint broke guys just ditch arsenal its dead and go pyro now guys :XD " its no where near ok m8tys sorcs jugs maruls and any dps class does that aswell but they have so much other stuff they can do ,and most of the time your damage is just spam healed away it MEANS nothing.And anyway Stop trying to be a freaking POWER TECH only they can get the most from that tree, and realise and fight for what your class should be PYROTECH IS FOR PT and ARSENAL FOR MERC for gods sake dont settle for this!!! SPAM THESE gosh darn FORUMS NERFING MORONS BIONERFING IDIOTS. FIX DAMN ARSENAL SO MERCS CAN STOP TRYING TO BE POWERTECHS FFS RIDICULAS And also dont nerf PT just so you can bring them down to the usless lvl of arsnal mercs which you nerfed already stop nefing and sort this **** out ..listning to nerf whiners is what this amounted to oh sigh just wish for a company who have grown themselfs a ballsack and just give us the game they intended and leave it that way and progress upwards introducing more new skills and stuff but ow nah all we get is nerf this nerf that and then oh right now we have to nerf that character to bring in inline with the characters we just nerfed nerf nerf nerf once you start you cant stop nerfynerty nerfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff lets do some more nerfs oh ..wait have we neFred that one yet ..nope NERFFFFFFF IT YEH WHERES THE NERF STICK GONE!!

Well this will be repaired soon enough i guess, but this class needs a serious review in general we should either be the very best ranged dps class bar no-one other than sniper/gunslinger or we should get some usfull ability to be able to compete with sorcs/sages and I am talking about being useful for the entire group in a wz since that is all this game offers us with 0 world pvp. And also the fact that we have no defense/escape skills like spint/stealth/imunities other than a crap -25 reduction shield with long cd . Our heavy armour dosent even seem to mean **** we are as squishy as a hell onces focused bb. Due to the complete lack of usefull group skills like sorc has freindly pull and can apply shields for instance My point and concern is.... how useful in a group is a dps merc going to be in rated warzones?? will a group leader choose a merc over a sorc or a sniper? Not a smart one.At least a sniper can camp out and not be charged by worriors and be an actaul useful benifit in hutball for instance and sorc.... well any group that wants to win will grab as many as they can lol. Snipers do better single target damage,can stun an enrire group for 8 seconds and can camp in safty from charging worriors. Sorcs have got 3 usefull abilitys Sprint/friendly pull/apply shield to others AND do way way better aoe damage. Just what the bloodyhell use is a dps merc to anyone?? stealthscan? ppfft only good merc in rated will be a healer merc. My take on it is change sweeping blasters for a new more viable aoe damage attack and give us a sprint or smt ,, teleport lol anything and give us it before rated or dps mercs will phase out to nothing but an old story sorcs tell to thier little rakling pets at a camp fire

Your absolutly right m8 ...and whats the difference between a bunch of sorcs spamming force lightning followed by shock and a bunch of mercs spamming TM well both are very anoying to the poor victim (and it is how it should be) and they are gunna go down like a sack of **** ,but a bunch of meles charging on you and you will go down even quicker. but tracer ofc does have the edge over FL and the target will go down quicker ,but a sorc has far better survivibility and useful skills. A mercs suvivibility in full arsenal is to try and dps the **** out of something asap OR YOUR DEAD its the only hope!! There is no escape you either kill or you die and you usaully are dead with any good jug, sin or marau on you DONT NERF ANYTHING !! Screw off the nerf whiners instead if they dont like bh that much make them leave the game instead of people who made a bh put all those hours in and put up with the weaknesses of their class to enjoy the benifits...merc suvivibility is crap compaired to all other classes but some peeps only see our strengh and need to learn how to exploit our weeknesses. And thats just the PVP side of things a nerf would damage PVE just as bad just imagine " hi im dps merc can i join your raid for Eternity Vault nightmare mode " "No m8 sorry you cant spam your tracer missile and do enough damge and dbuffs any more ,we will look for sorc or sniper sorry bout that BB have fun!! )" All in All it was a very bad press release saying " Nerf Bounty Hunters " i mean not at all proffessional and now we all have our nickers in a twist fearing and wondering what it means and what would be a dissaster for us lol verybad BW.

All i can say BW is be very careful about this anounced "nerf " because what is a merc bounter hunter it is pure dps as in thats all they have no skills like charge and pull/grapple and sprint and cc imunity this / damage imunity that..yeh they have cc`s ofc but only a few ..thats all mercs have without very good dps they are absolutely useless and pointless, unless a healer and lol i def didnt make a merc to heal ..they are killers they hunt they kill ... If you take stuff away you need to give something in return. I would imagine this nerf is coming because of nerf whining ofc and tracer missile but if you make tracer missile so it is doing 6 things at once then people are goin to spam and mostly its to try and reserve heat ..just take away the effect that you might get 8 heat back if the spam the hell out of tracer and give us more heat to play with in the first place and job done