Now hear me out before you instantly jump to call Marauders OP or it will make us OP. It was in the beta and honestly I heard no complaints from it. Now, my one problem with this is, people may say "It's because you're DPS!" well Juggernauts can DPS as can others. But to make the point more, fair, let's take a look at the Bounty Hunter, it can wear Heavy Gear, DPS and Tank, but the Merc can in some ways do it more effectively than the Powertech (DPS I mean.) So why not give it to Marauders? I think Marauders are way too 'squishy' as people like to say. Many people who will reply to this will be coming from a PVP standpoint but in PVE, even in columi or Rakata gear, we can get near instakilled pretty much by an enemy who would have it's work ahead of it to take down a juggernaut.
I don't know if many of you have actually seen any of the threads around the site or the web in regards to the 'fashion' or style of the Marauder armour, which I feel for one is really bad. Most of the outfits are bland, copies and halves of Juggernaut Armour, a lot of the best looking armour is Heavy armour yet, I feel that when in the Beta phase when we could wear heavy and it was scrapped for us. The Juggernauts got our armour and our effectiveness pretty much as we can DPS, but really why bother picking the Marauder when you can have Heavy armour and a Focus that makes up for the loss of strength and power. Now I am simply saying if a Merc, who wears heavy armour and has an offhand weapon can be allowed in the game, why can't a CQB class share the same benefit since it itself has an offhand weapon?
I shall now prepare to be flooded in remarks of the class being OP or my question being stupid.