Sounds about right. lol

So, your solution is to grind endless painful hours to get War Hero gear so we can then come tell you that there's still issues with the game? No thanks! Enjoy sitting in the PvP wing of your fleet waiting hours for pops with your shiny WH gear.

Sounds about right...

I unsubbed Wednesday night. I'm tired of this game. It might be fun if you were one of the favored melee classes but Mercenary is no fun PvP. I really enjoy Pyro sometimes but it's still weak compared to everyone else, our utility is garbage, and frankly PvP in this game is a boring stun-fest. Good luck, I hope they fix Merc. I still have three weeks on my sub so I might play a little but I honestly haven't even had the desire to log in since unsubbing.

You need to work on your reading comprehension: #original quote "...vast majority of players on these boards..." Apparently you failed out of more than math class. Your reading comprehension skills are also lacking.

mmhmmm keep on telling yourself that. There's a reason that the vast majority of players on these boards are in agreement about this matter, however, you and a few others seem to cling on to nonsense and use straw men and red herrings (see post above where guy tries to bait me in to a trap). The fact of the matter is that 5 seconds of damage immunity with the level of burst that marauders have is too much. Sorry, but you're are in the minority if you feel otherwise and it *will* be changed. You can quote me on that. it might take a while to patch it, but they will.

Negatory good buddy, just OP ones that practically give damage immunity. I know you guys like to claim that it's not immunity, and you are correct, however you clearly failed out of math class if you can't see that it's practically the same thing.

This guy can be found posting nonsense on every single Marauder post. It's really kind of funny that h'es so scared of an equal playing field. *IF* Hunters could do that, it was fixed. GBTF should reduce outgoing damage by 99% as well and then it would be fine. But hey, I'm sure you'll have some weird illogical straw man argument for that as well.

I run this build: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#300MzZMckZcGrbzGGMs.1 I find the improved vents is more useful than the 2% crit. I know it seems crazy but heat is an issue for Pyro and I like to go balls to the wall. I do pretty well 1v1 including marauders/sents. I also use freeze bombs to root for 2 seconds to keep melee off me and I'm sure that helps a lot in the 1v1 department.

You have to use a lot of rapid shots. This is good though because CGC buffs the damage substantially. If you factor in the 2 second snare from withering heat, you really need to spam rapid shots a LOT to kite. If I'm just turreting I'll use power shot, otherwise, rapid shots is my go to move when everything is on CD. I cannot stress this enough, do not underestimate the increased damage and snare from rapid shots.

What's with all the crit instead of power on the BM gear? I'm Pyro and every piece I'm losing power and gaining crit... this sucks...

The amount of ignorance on this thread is staggering. With that being said, OP is correct. And I'm off to work. Edit: One more thing. The sheer lack of reading comprehension on this thread is very sad and I truly hope this doesn't reflect the future of this country. Seriously, stay in school kids.

Welcome to the life of a Mercenary. It's especially bad for Pyro because railshot can be deflected. Keep in mind I'm talking Pyro Merc, not Pyro Powertech.

I'm a rank 58 pyro merc and I do pretty well PUGing. I just had my first child and I'm lucky if I get an hour a night. I can usually finish my daily still. I win 75% of my PUGs. I try and communicate in ops channel, work together, and melt some faces. I think this is an issue for lower population servers where you have the same premades rolling the same eight PUGs over and over. My server is medium pop and either there's a lot less premades on my server or there's a lot more PUGs. Finally, I do see my fair share of premades and our PUGs will win sometimes. If it's a pounding they typically end the game as quickly as possible. Perhaps it's because I get < 10 hours a week but I enjoy every minute I get in this stun-fest; even if I'm getting rolled by premades. I can always find one willing to peel off 1v1 and lose to me.

Your post is self defeating. If those same premades of friends queued, there's a good chance they would also be playing premades of friends in addition to those super teams. You contradict yourself in a single breath.

Anyone?

Cool story about your level 12 BH.

Yes, this nerf to powershot is very unwarranted. Doesn't effect TM spammers. Doesn't effect the "op" Powertech Pyros they are fixing. It only unnecessarily nerfs the already not so strong and elusive Pyro Merc.

3v1 you're still boned but if they are leaping on you first thing they already messed up and if you're an assault commando you should be able to kite that *one*. Again, 3v1 of any DPS and you're SOL. But against 1, if they leap first thing I always laugh proceed to kite. Any good mara or jugg will save their leap for your first KB or stun.

I play a merc but a Gunnery command is the same as an Assault Merc and melee will continue to eat you alive. That is the weakness of the Gunnery tree. I switched to Pyro a long time ago and really enjoy it more. The numbers aren't as high but being able to gun on the run like that is priceless. I don't mean to discourage you from playing TM/Grav, it is very powerful, but: 1 - It's probably the weakest 1v1 class (Pyro is one of the best). 2 - You will be hard pressed to survive the focus of competent melee. Edit: I switch back to TM every now and then and while I do more damage I just can't get over being interrupted over and over while being beaten on w/ glow bats. I always switch back to Pyro because it feels so good to see them on fire, snared, trying to run away!

Oh yah, I forgot about the "danger of collapsing" slaughters. OMG I'm grinning ear to ear!

Yes, I think UO was the my favorite PvP game. The fact that dying actually had consequences made you think twice before fighting and it made you fight much harder. The incentive was obvious, I kill you, I get to take your reagents and go kill some more people. I love it.

I think most of us (I have a Valor 54 Merc) are rolling alts or enjoying other facets of the game in the meantime. I queue every now and then to pwn some face but I'm not getting any benefit besides Valor.

This seems bad at first, but very rarely do I see PPA proc more than once in six seconds as it is.

Wonderful, ty for the pro-tip!