If you spec for shield talents as a dps you are missing actual dps talents making your spec subpar. Not to mention any sage/sorc healer will have the 20% shield talent anyway making your point completely moot. DPS are brought to a raid to do damage to the boss, that is all, they are not brought because they can off heal really poorly.

I don't believe any of those numbers. You would have to have a ridiculous amount of power making your crit and accuracy non-existant to go along with your fully augmented full campaign gear in every slot to even begin to approach them.

I don't think you know how an arsenal merc works.

So please tell me what change in the below patch notes made you say "after 1.2 we have a much easier time resourcing and managing our ammo"? I'm interested in this. Combat Medic Field Training now increases critical chance by 1% per point. Field Triage now reduces the cost of Medical Probe by 1 (down from 2). Kolto Bomb now affects up to 4 targets (up from 3), improving reliability in group and Operation situations. Kolto Residue now increases all healing received by 3% (down from 5%). Psych Aid no longer reduces the cost of Field Aid. It now causes Field Aid to heal the target for a small amount. Supercharge Cells now restores 1 Energy Cell (down from 2) when used and increases all damage and healing dealt by 5% (down from 10%). The shield applied by Kolto Bomb now reduces damage taken by 5% (down from 10%). Trauma Probe now costs 2 Energy Cells to activate.

Aresenal was always trash against good pvper's, but at least it used to pack enough punch to look past the crippling mobility issues and the fact that interrupts completely shut you down.

The ship droid has about 3 abilities at lvl 50, is very hard to get gear for, and some slots are impossible to fill like the most important one, mainhand weapon. I would imagine leveling with the ship droid out would be almost identical to leveling without any companion out.

No one can tell you how to do this, because it isn't possible if the person trying to kill you has even half of a clue what they are doing. You will perma-snared making your 2 sec snare that you apply to them pretty worthless. If you create space with your knockback, they will either a) jump right back on you, b) speed boost their way to you, probably while invisible, c) root you in place and run back to you, or d) just kill you from range with their lighsaber throws that hit harder than your demo round.

Really, when you post stuff like the highlighted section, people know that you haven't played the class.

Please don't troll the thread, this is for serious rated warzone teams, not teams trying to see how fast they can lose.

Merc's also have to channel either powershot or unload to proc free railshots, rather than using instant cast abilities. Mercs also only have a 16% chance to apply the cylinder dot, while PT's have 100% chance.

You missed the sorc shield and friendly pull, also sniper gets an armor debuff too.

Please explain to me how my merc's dps dropped so dramatically on the target dummy on my ship due to them "fixing" merc debuff stacking when I was the only one dpsing?

Jano Vas - Jedi Guardian Guild Leader: Spark of Hope Vrook Lamar Why are you berating people for being disappointed in their class when you don't even play it?

So are we listing reasons why mercs should be in the game now because the list is shorter than listing all the complaints?

Simple question for when rated warzones are released. Will you have a dps merc/commando on your rated warzone team? Why or why not?

Your best bet is to reroll to any other advanced class if your focus is pvp and you want to enjoy it. Once rated warzones are released you will not be getting on even a half decent team as a commando/merc so if you reroll now you can have another class geared and ready to go when they are released. Of course, if you don't want to do that (and who really does?) Diablo 3 comes out next week and GW2 comes out in less than 2 months and neither charges you monthly to dissapoint you.

When you start your post like this, most people will just skip the rest of the garbage you spewed out. Edit: Protip, casting sorc shield on someone puts a debuff on them making your untalented dps shields interfere with your sorc healer doing his job.

You can really tell the people who don't play a merc when they make posts like this. If you had ever played a dps merc before you would know how piitful your heals are and that if you are ever casting them in a pvp or pve situation the fight is already lost.

If your focus is pvp that is your best bet really. Both merc dps specs are the worst pvp specs in the game due to mediocre damage and lack of utility. People say "pyro is great for pvp", but what they really mean is that pyro is not AS bad as arsenal is. You may be able to put up decent numbers by the end of the round as pyro, but good luck ever killing a healer or someone who is being healed since all your damage is dots (cleansable) and medium hitting shots. You can however spread those dots around and pretend like you made a difference.

People in this thread are talking about max level mercs. Everything before level 50 is very easy and you could complete it without even using talent points. Duoing a heroic 4 is not all that great, my lvl 27 sorc solos the heroic 4 on alderaan for the armoring that is awesome at that level and my merc soloed the same heroic 4 while leveling up a few months ago.

Yea, it's completely insane to think they would put something in the patch notes that wasn't true!

That's not quite how statistics work.

Well he's talking about campaign gear, so I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess he might be talking about.....raiding??? For the OP I noticed the same thing, the new gear is pretty badly itemized compared to Rakata that has been remodded to proper accuracy levels. I guess if you still had default Rakata with it's 120% accuracy, some of the new gear would be a nice upgrade since you would be dropping your useless accuracy.

I duoed it yesterday as merc/sniper with heal companions, took about 15 min clearing everything. I wish I had stealth.

You're right, mercs won't start being benched for more capable classes until EC NmM is released. Of course, that is assuming that by the time they release it, there are still mercs left playing the game.