^ | This is the primary reason on my server.

@Midgey No, you dont sound trollish at all. I just got to 60 valor, so I have about half champ gear and the rest cent gear. I don't feel useless, but good teams will single you out for an easy kill and it does get frustrating when I am using all I got and I can't crack this Merc in Rakata/BM gear. I do use shatter shot. I have experimented with the skill tree a lot and for me it is hard to beat MM in PVP. I had no luck at all with the Danitah Eng/Leath build on my server. The dots are dispelled by the time I get to the cull, so I am left with cluster bombs and a lot less energy after the cull. I watched videos of people playing this build and they are playing in groups with other really good players, so they have lots of support. My guild has left the game mostly, so I have to queue solo most of the time, then it is hit or miss (I know I need to find another... thats a whole different issue ;-)). I don't feel useless, just there are times when it is incredibly frustrating. Thanks for the input and tips and keeping it constructive.

You have a whole line of gear especially for PVP. That should be THE best gear for PVP and the raid gear should be a tier or two down (in PVP). This will drive people who aren't big raiders insane. Given that only PVP gear has expertise, this is a potential FIX to the problem. I have really enjoyed the game, but I don't have enough time to do a lot of raiding to get Rakata gear. I spent a lots of time to get to level 60 valor so that I could start wearing BM gear and now I am facing players that deflect the first blow or two and my biggest damage dealer is reduced to somewhere aroung 800. When it takes me more than 18 shots to kill someone that can kill me in 5, well that just makes me want to smash my mouse through the desk. Not much fun when it starts getting like that.

I have experienced this quite a bit lately. I thought snipers were supposed to be the top end DPS class? We don't get escapes or cloaking or force maneuvers, etc, so I thought that was our big selling point. Against geared 50s snipers are not that powerful.

I had no luck at all with lethality sniper. Players on my server dispel and you are left with nothing to cull. I had to switch back to MM which is fine as it is a pretty powerful spec. You will get targeted in WZs as a sniper because they know that you will do too much damage if left unchecked. You just have to be careful or you will die a lot.

Not so sure about that, looks like this is unclear for a lot of people... even those who think they have it all figured out. I am curious, who gets dispels and what type do they get? I tried playing leathality skill tree as a sniper and seems like my dots get cleared quite often.