Bump. I see a lot of people saying Merc is working as intended. Clearly it is not. Hopefully you Devs can use a minimal amount of critical thinking to realize what is actually broken, because without a doubt, something is broken. Seems like its the Tracer debuff from my testing.

Why do people continually conflate over gearing your opponents with healing being OP? Here's a fact, dps out scales healing in pvp. By definition then, you can only not kill a healer 1v1 if they have better gear than you or are just better than you. IE you don't use stuns, interrupts, and knockbacks appropriately. So once again it has nothing to do with healing and everything to do with gear and skill disparity

Tracer debuff is what is not working.

Ok? What's your point? I'm 5/5 rakata healing merc pre 1.2. Yes healing was easy and more error friendly. However, with the changes to critical efficiency and supercharged gas, the spec is literally not playable compared to the other two healers. I still have not yet seen a merc healer in a successful raid. Operative and Sorc healers are hands down superior in every category. That's the issue. It's not that you can still spec it an under ideal circumstances, do ok. The issue is that they're super far behind the other healing counterparts. I don't think thats arguable, and I'm pretty sure the healing numbers back it up.

The issue is with Tracer Missle debuff not working, which in turn makes it so you aren't bypassing 20% more armor with 5 stacks. Whether or not the abilities are hitting for their intended purpose, we don't know for sure. It could be that instant casts don't gain as much of a damage boost and that your target has a lot of armor. However, yes, tracer missle debuff is broken.

Dude get over it, you're getting the nerfbat, and it's going to be heavy. I know it's hard to deal with the fact that you're not remotely as good as your current play makes you seem, but that is the case currently. You can either ***** and moan about it and deny it, or you can just accept it and hope they don't give you the Merc treatment.

The known issues as I understand it only have to do with abilities missing, not armor. In fact, the high velocity armor debuff of 35% works perfectly alone. Tracer however is tested and proven to not be working. I also saw in another thread, that I can't find now someone had tested it in a duel with a friend and had similar results. I will validate this later this evening, but frankly I shouldn't have to. This should have been done by Bioware change control prior to going live. It's clear it did not happen and the person in charge of change control should be fired.

But Merc Arsenal IS broken. Literally. Tracer debuff isn't working on self anymore. Go see for yourself. That's why your dps went from 1500-1200 overnight with one emergency change. I don't get why this is so hard for everyone to figure out, took me less than 5 minutes.

Jeez buddy how'd you do that with the only healer on your team (who was premade with you and pocket healed you for 300k+ healing. Also notice how no one even has half your damage? Yeah that's not because you're good, it's because you played against undergeared pugs as a premade. I'm sure two of those warriors who are tanks AND topped the DPS of the opponents were also in your premade roflstomp. Basically, **** with your bias BS. I don't know what your agenda is, but it's transparent and pathetic.

Great post. Well said. The reason is because of expertise terrible ratio gain to healing. Just from changing gear as a healer you can tell that PvE gear is better for healing

Reporting this as a stupid moderator doesn't realize this is NOT the same issue that was resolved about Heatseeker, although they are related. Now stop removing threads just because I'm pointing out you messed up without testing and READ it and RESPOND I'm posting this again. I've already unsubbed. I did some very very basic testing. Bought the 500k warzone training dummy. I have no buffs. First Tracer hit - 1340, second tracer hit - 1340, third tracer hit - 1340. (IT IS NOT GAINING THE BONUS OF ITS OWN ARMOR STACKING DEBUFF) High Velocity Cylinder - Same situation. Seems to change the Tracer damage slightly. Still tracer is not gaining the armor debuff that is it providing. You said everything was working. You were wrong. You didn't even test the basic ability of Mercenary Arsenals. Oh and my Heatseeker missle just hit the Training dummy for 1450. Tooltip reads 1835-1972. I have 865 expertise, 400 bonus damage, 32.5% crit, 69% multiplayer, 1628 aim, completely UNBUFFED. Why does my heatseeker hit for so little? Did you change the way the calculations work because I can't even fathom a way it could hit that low non-crit, even on a target mitigating 50% damage, which it shouldn't be.

Tracer debuff is still not calculating for ANY of the players skills. This is why HSM is hitting so low and why tracer damage doesn't go up in subsequent hits as it should by mitigating more and more armor

Tracer debuff is currently bugged, and not affecting the personal mercenary at the moment. This is easy to test if you have a dummy, as I just tested it after I bought the dummy. Unbuffed, Tracer 1340 damage, 1340 again, 1340 again. Since I'm gaining 8% armor debuff each time, these values should be noticably different. They aren't. Tracer is not applying it's debuff. Or at least, the gain is not being added on at all.

I'm sure this has been said, but you won't get criticism if you roll up in the warzone in PvP gear, recruit gear only costs money there is no reason not to have it. When you come into the warzone in 40 blues and greens, with 12k-13k life, you are single handedly losing the warzone for your team, especially now. Not only does the player deserve a ban for Trolling the other 7 players, the last thing they should do is try to defend their actions. You have no business being in a warzone with that type of gear at 50.

If you're not a healer, you shouldnt be posting your meaningless opinions in here. You LITERALLY don't get it. You know you don't get it, so don't come and tell people it's a L2P issue or a teamwork issue. First of all, those aren't valid arguments to begin with. It's what a child says when they're mad. Second of all, if you want to know how bad it is, because you really don't understand, TRY IT. Go roll a merc/commando healer. Come back to us with your personal results. 99% of the population that plays them thinks its a dead spec and that healers in general are in a terrible place. I'm sure you're the paragon everyone has been looking for to bring us out of these dark days with your flawless play. Now prove it. We'll wait.

Tracer missle is not benefitting the own person on the debuff. Test your commando version and see for yourself. 1340, 1340, 1340 should not be happening if the debuffs were working. So easy to test, you can tell most of Bioware's dev team has down sydnrome.

If you test, you'll notice that Tracer Missle is no longer benefitting from the Tracer armor debuff. Very very easy to test. I feel confident nothing is benefitting from it at the moment, which is why dps feels so terrible.

I can also confirm that tracer missle is no longer gaining the benefit from the armor debuffs it provides. This is another thing that is EASY to test. I am non buffed. Every hit is hitting for 1340, non crit. The first one, the second, and the third. With 2 stacks of 4-5% armor being reduced each time, I expect this value to steeply increase each time. Why do I have to spend 5 minutes to test this to prove this is BS? Where the f is your Dev team? Where is your change control? Why don't you test ANYTHING before it goes live?

Edit - tracer missle debuff does not apply to self. Tested and confirmed

I just unsubbed my 3 50s over this. They invalidated my merc v 66 first heals then dps. Now I quit

Since they're now actively moving threads to here... I'll just say, unsubbed

Yes merc is without a doubt, hands down the worst class now. Sadly, any of the specs are just terrible compared to other classes. Inferior in every way possible. I expect massive buffs. I'm not even gonna play my 50 Jugg or Sin tho, I just unsubbed. Can't be a part of this moronic Dev team's game 'development,' and I use term loosely as someone who works on databases with multiple environments and knows how to do their job.

You hotfixed the broken dps in 1 day. Now, as reported over and over and over again, which you keep moving to the merc forums, HSM is now broken. How do I define broken? It now does less damage than the minim damage on the tooltip with 5 stacks of tracer, 5 stacks of HSM. You say you fixed some bug, I say whatever you did to change the calculation is fundamentally flawed. My power shot hits for more than HSM now. I have 860 resil, 1825 stimmed, buffed aim in pvp with 7 augmented pieces of pvp gear. I am as close to maximum stats as you can get mathematically with maybe a 2-3% increase by changing out orange belts and one augmented columni implant. Hitting below the minimum should be impossible with my stats and the relative buffs that should be going on. I don't see any reason to continue playing this game when you literally can't even accurately test your own content. The worst part is you posted an incorrect statement without any numbers saying its working, when the very people in the thread have parsers showing the dps change on dummies from pre 1.2.0c to after. So I'm unsubbing today. You finally went ahead and alienated me so far that I can no longer enjoy this game.

You're trolling because "learn to adjust" is an acceptance that his point is correct, not a valid counter argument as to why it's not. Now stop trolling. The class ability is proven to be broken, mathematically. The only possibly answers are that not only did they not test it, they still don't have the intelligence required to realize they broke it. That's the scarier part to me. Someone is actually back there looking at these numbers giving an incorrect sign off.

Why would you play a healer if you at best can only match the damage done to the healing target?