I agree with the above post whole heartily. I love this game and I would hate to see it fall into complete chaos and just destroys itself. It's a scary thought. I also agree that the only reason they are nerfing the classes is because people are crying about how they suck at PvP. I am very much a PvE player. I love raids, I love leveling, I love the story line in this game. That was the main draw of the game for me. I couldn't care less about the PvP. But once I got to lvl 50 I decided to try it. get myself some gear I could use in HMs and also get a new style for my BH. I didn't think the armor was that bad looking. Now when I first entered the PvP arena I got stomped, it was brutal. But I laughed and decided that I couldn't play the PvP arena the same way I play the PvE arena....WAIT WHAT!!!? OMG NO WAY!!! That seems like such a simple concept to grasp and for some reason that concept seems to be the reason players are getting nerfed. I guess real players don't just stand there and take hits like the NPCs do. So naturally I just changed up my playing style and started to see a bit of improvement. I wasn't awesome, but as a dps arsenal merc my job was to cause havoc and be a pain in the *** on the battlefield, not to go charging in 1v1 and take out massive groups of guys....that was the assassins and tanks job. Now that I go back to the PvE arena and do Black Hole quests and other random HMs that I do with friends, it's a nightmare. My dps blows! I can't even do my original play style anymore because quite frankly it doesn't work. All can do is cross my fingers and start hitting the enemy with everything I have and hope I make some sort of dent. BW just needs to remember that it's not all about the PvP and that people will always cry about their toon getting stomped. It all comes down to finding your niche, and playing it to the best of your ability, just like it was said in the above post.. That's what makes MMOs like this fun.

I love this thread. It basically has said everything I have been thinking. Minus a few classes that I didn't care about. But I play a Merc and have been playing a Merc since the very beginning of the game going public. I loved it! It was so awesome popping off a few tracer missiles and watching as healers tried frantically to heal their comrade because they knew a Merc BH would smoke them in the next 3 seconds if they didn't. Although, that being said, I ran my *** off from a fare share of other classes. Assassins and shadows were the players to avoid because they would just wreck kids. hahaha I agree completely that BW needs to have some kind of high level, very experienced players on a panel to tell them the things they should take under consideration. I also agree that instead of nerfing the players repeatedly just leave them alone. I would rather be wrecked by a class because I got outplayed then just realizing that my arsenal of awesomeness couldn't blow up a freaking Ford Pinto even if I hit it in the rear with a tracer missile. It is a sad day indeed for us Merc's but hopefully we will be avenged in the next patch, because I am way too lazy to re-roll a new class just because it's the flavor of the week.

I completely agree with you. I'm a lvl 50 Merc, and I do love the class. When it comes to PvP you do get people who just spam TM like there is no tomorrow, but those are the kids that rely too heavily on the 1.5 sec dmg in big numbers. I am by no means geared perfectly or amazingly for PvP so my TM does on avg about 2k dmg or a little more each hit. But it's the bonus for unload and railshot that make TM so necessary. Pop 3 to 4 TM on a target, lower their armor, then unload with 25% more dmg, and railshot with their weak armor. You will see a massive dip in their health almost instantly. We just happen to look very grandiose when we do it, so like you said, it get's noticed a lot more. Spamming TM doesn't denote lack of skill either, it shows someone who understands the concept of a very good strat. Not a perfect strat, but every class has that 3 or 4 move strat to enter a battle with. After that, it's just hack and slash until cooldown is done, or just blow em up with a heat seeker missle if your a Merc (which by the way is also very noticeable when used on the battlefield).