Half your post is complaining about the "terms" I used. I am sorry if your confused by general terms that most people in the MMO community understand. Let me try to put this into simple terms for you. Armor or AC for short directly lowers all Physical attacks. Basically White Numbered Damage in the game. Magic/Elemental Damage refers to any damage that is only mitigated by resistances for the appropriate damage type. You also stated we need Minor and Very Specific changes... Our Marksman 31 Point talent is near worthless. They just make it so our MM Grenades no longer lowers accuracy on bosses, they are lowering the effect of surge next patch, Engineering is a complete waste of a talent tree, Cover not working properly, entrench not working with natural cover and so much more... if this is minor then im wrong however I think these issues are huge.

Sir your arguement here is void. Killing blows doesnt make your class better. Raw damage does. Even if you go around doting everyone and you yourself only causing minor damage it makes it much easier for you team to kill people once they hop on them. Furthermore its much harder on a healer when everyones life is dropping rather then just one or two targets. Also they have those heals which add survivability to not only themselves but their team. Something we dont even have a chance to bring to the table.

Sir you make yourself look bad with you post. So your telling my 2-3 specs in the entire game use Magic or Elemental Damage (basically anything other then a raw physical attack)? That question right now voids your remark. Sorcs deal all magic/elemental damage, Half of BH's attacks are not physical & even SW's have dots that avoid armor. Add all those up and its about half the classes in the game have magic/elemental based attacks. Now remove the healer portion of the population and oh right a VERY small percentage use 80% physical attacks.

For a moment can we please stop trolling and claiming we know more then we do and look at some information. I am tired of people rolling low level snipers to pass judgement on snipers or other classes who know nothing of our class coming in here and saying we are fine. Here is the cold truth from a Rank 61 Snipers point of view. What is a snipers role or roles? We are DPS and DPS alone, we have no tree for healing or tanking so we are simple put... Pure DPS What Trees are Unique skill trees to Snipers? Marksman & Engineering Which tree currently puts out the most damage? Lethality Why does Lethality do the most damage instead of the two unique trees that are supposed to make snipers the Pure DPS class? This is simple, again we do physical damage and as such armor significantly reduces all damage we do were as lethality is magic damage so that damage bypasses the armor and do significantly more DPS. But everyone says Marksman Snipers have the highest burst in the game so what gives? Marksman have some burst however it is at the cost of using cooldowns and high energy combinations which leaves us unable to continue to do any significant amount of damage after. Furthermore Bounty Hunters have posted screenshots of doing 8k+ in a single shot and I saw a video of an operative doing 17k damage in 2 hits. Ask your sniper buddy the last time he did 17k damage in 2 shots or 8k+ in a single shot and the answer will be never. The best shot EVER for me has been 7k and that was on a low level player with no expertise. Well good snipers do enough damage to be somewhat competitive with other DPS classes. "Somewhat competitive" would be the key word here. Also for the only class in the game with NO other avenue other then to do DPS... Shouldn't we be at the top? Lets face it, we cannot take nor can we heal and our CC is minimal in comparison to say Sorcs who can EASILY pull the same numbers as us in Warzones while also healing for 200-300k. Well Mr.Smart*** what do you think should be done? There are many solutions to the problem it simply comes down to what Bioware is willing to do. Some things are as follows: Make some of the attacks in the Marksman Tree do internal damage and consider these armor piecing attacks Revamp some of the more useless abilities snipers have in our tree such as Rapid Fire or make it so Series of Shots is more less worth spamming 3 times. Look into the cast times of our abilities, 2.5 seconds on ambush may seem fine on paper however if your at 2.4 seconds and someone line of sites you or disables you in any way... ALL the was for nothing. Most other classes that has abilities with cast times are channeled abilities as in they have to stand still yes however it continue to do damage through the cast time rather then just at the end. Look into making Engineering a ranged tank class? Perhaps make it so they get cover abilities that reduce all incoming damage at the cost of lowering their current damage. I figure if operatives get heals then the mirror side to them should have a tank tree. Engineering might also get additional shield probes, taunt probe, stun droids or maybe even a decoy drone that looks similar to the sniper and draws the attention away from him to absorb an attack or two. In closing I don't claim to be the best sniper in the game however I do believe I have a good understanding of the class. It bothers me that people post false information on a regular basis that gives devs a false reading about the class. I would have to agree with others that have posted and said that snipers are one of the lowest dps classes in the game and for that I ask the devs... Why is the class with only one role one of the lowest DPSers in the game? PLEASE be mature with you responses and look at things from a non-biased point of view and only post constructive comments/ideas.

Wrong! Marksman is not the ideal candidate because we do PHYSICAL damage as opposed to magic damage (ie armor effects our damage were as it doesnt to magic based attacks). Rocket Spam is the ideal class to get 5k+ crits as someone posted a screenshot of a BH doing a 8.3k crit. Also I am a Rank 61 Sniper with Battlemaster wep/gear and I will tell you as a marksman I EARLY EVER get a 5k+ crit in pvp. People claiming MM Snipers do the highest or are even one of the highest burst damage classes in the game are one of two things: A. they are in pre 50 WZ's or B. They are lieing.

The level of intelligence that goes in to some of these posts..... is mind blowing. CrymzenSith, yes we all started somewhere however when alot of the current battlemasters started we didnt have battlemasters to carry us through games. We had to win them. Your basically says that you upset because people who are high rank are tried of getting stuck with new low ranking 50's who have no teamwork, skill or even desire to play the objective.... Sorry but your post fails.

When people leave its generally due to their team not listening, the game created an unbalanced game or perhaps they started the game without enough players. Coming from a rank 61, even if they put in a lockout I will still leave and just do something else if there is no chance at winning. Most people dont join Warzones for valor, they join them to get wins for dailys. If you want valor go to ilum and you will get far more. Honestly if people are leaving your games and you have a full party then perhaps you should look at yourself. Perhaps you might be the reason they are leaving. Are you actually helping the team win by completing the objectives or are you just trying to play team deathmatch and ignoring the point of the game. /shrug I for one am not for lockouts as it will solve nothing.

If PvE was the same way then I personally would not play the game however at least it would be fair....

I am not at a casino. I am playing an MMO were generally the more work you put in the more your rewarded... thus the more time you spend leveling the faster you level, the more you farm the more money you make, the more you raid the more loot you get...

If this is what developers wanted then they would make each piece of PvP armor cost 1000 tokens and all bags would only drop tokens... Wake up and stop trolling.

Raids always drop solid loot.... they always drop a purple. Now if you wanna compare raids to bags then what would you say if you got a raid together and when it died it dropped a green item? Ya, thats right you along with many others would be posting on a different section of this website.

You must be playing on a server without very good people, have a healer, have tank guarding your or all the above because on 2 of the 3 maps in order to be helpful to your team you need to be near the points to either keep people off doors or of the cap points. So if people are not hitting the guy that they know is squishy and is stationary.... then your playing some baddies.

Other classes do more then you do while being mobile. Hate to burst your bubble.

Sorry but I refuse to accept that the developers do not care about rewarding hard work and or trying to keep things fair.

I am sorry but it saddened me today when I saw a rank 40 sniper with a nearly pvp gear in every slot were as I am just about to hit rank 50 and I have 4 pieces of gear.... Yes I do all my daily's, weekly's & get 1-2 additional bags each day from currency I earned in the day yet I get streaks of 15+ bags in a row with just currency....