yeah really no fix yet??? do they have any official statement on the state of mercs? i hate how they dont respond in the forums at all, i remember on the SWG forums and the WoW forums the devs would actually address your complaints and say something like "we are working on it" or "it is working as intended" etc... here so far i havent seen any devs involved in the dialogue.

its broken, because some of our skills no longer work... we have a stacking armour debuff that is key to our dps and the debuff no longer does anything.

just thought i'd add to this thread by saying i recently made a new Sorceror, and at lvl 10 with zero expertise i do more damage than my lvl 50 merc with 1000+ expertise. how can people argue that merc is not broken??

yes i meant expertise, brain fart... just thought i'd add that although i'm by no means new to MMOs, i am new to ToR, having only played about a month and a half and i hit 50 about a week after 1.2 i dont play a huge amount and this noobieness is my excuse for being confused about concuss. i tried it a few times when lvling up and it kept breaking after a few seconds so i stopped using it and nearly forgot about it. but from my previous MMO experience i certainly know not to use AoEs and break my own stuns - thats not the case here tho its quite possible that my merc does, or party members or their mercs ... who knows. i know i know... L2R tooltips...

i think its safe to say that i mostly pvp, and thats definitely where its more apparent. we die faster than clothies with the same expertise and you actually see the numbers at the end of the battle. i know what i was hitting before the patch and what i'm hitting after and its absolutely cut in half even tho i have way better gear now. as far as i can see here on the forums it seems to have been proven that our heat signatures no longer do anything at all, making stacking them pointless - the testing has been done and the damage never increases between zero and 5 stacks.

its nerfed really bad. allegedly powertechs and healing BHs can do more damage than mercs now. i'm not joking when i say my DPS is literally half of what it used to be - and i have way better gear now than i did before the patch. its not just the nerf tho, the nerf actually broke some of our skills, for example our heat signatures no longer do anything at all. and heat signature was a huge part of PvE damage and even helps in PvP. i'm very disappointed to read todays patch notes and find that our broken skills have not been fixed. i used to PvP every day, at least 10 matches. now its just too frustrating and it makes me hate the game. mercs are literally useless in pvp. we cant do anything anymore. and its not just the dps, theres another strange issue that is bugging me. we wear HEAVY armour. why? clothies can take more of a beating than me. i dunno if its just because their presense is so much higher but really? why should armour type not be a factor in pvp? thats stupid. like i said i have a thousand presence, and when i attack a commando/BH in pvp i can hit for 1000-1500 damage with a missile, then i can fire a missile at a clothie and guess what? 1000-1500 damage. then the clothie hits me with some pebbles and i take 4k damage.... sigh. anyway thanks everyone for the PvE advice. i definitely need to try and use concussive shot more, i stopped using it because it seemed to always only last like 4 seconds but i guess thats because somebody else was breaking it and i just didnt investigate further. anyway i think some time soon the devs will bring our dps back up somewhat, theres no way this can be considered balanced. as i've mentioned, when burst dps IS your classes only use... why on earth does it make sense to have us do less damage than tanks, controllers/support and healers? lets face it , every time you pvp now the top 4-5 damage guys are always sorc's. so they'll get nerfed next. and then the next class thats at the top will get nerfed, and so on and so on till we are all hitting eachother for 1 damage :/

i've tried that. alone they can almost outheal my now ****** dps. so by the time concussion wears off (whats it last 4 seconds? i've never paid attention. ) the other starts healing the one i was pounding on again. honestly its sad, i mean these guys cant even hurt me that much, but i just cant kill them. the fight went on for like 5 or 6 minutes before i gave up and just ran from them till they evaded. how sad is it when lvl 50 strong mobs almost heal for as much as your damage? i seriously think they broke things with this nerf. sure, the BHs were pumping out way more DPS then anybody else but thats all we had. we have no CC, our AoEs are close to useless since most mobs are too spread out for them to hit more than 2 sometimes 3 if your lucky... (and then DFA has a knockback that throws them out of range of the AOE after the first hit ... i mean *** is that???) all we have is straight burst damage, and now they've taken that away from us. i could spec pyro and at least have some damage in pvp but really why would i want to do that? i spent all my commendations on eliminator gear and dont want to start over again up that chain... and dont get me started on pvp lol... what good are AoEs in pvp when the enemy can see your casting tooltip? seriously? i rarely ever use my AoEs in pvp anymore because players have smartened up and move out of the circle before teh attack even comes. sometimes when things are crowded you can sneak one in before they notice but most of the time players just arent that stupid. so in pvp? yup... all we have is burst damage. and they took that away. i know this is so QQ but in all my years of MMOs i've never seen a nerf cripple one of my toons this bad before. when they said they were going to nerf BH dps i thought, "hmm, well ok i guess that makes some sense. we dominate the dps charts in pvp..." but i never thought they would actually cut our dps in half :/ how is that not going too far? (i have about a thousand presence bang on, in case anyone was wondering. and my final dps tally is literally half of what it was pre-patch... and pre-patch i wasnt even 50 and i was in oranges and greens!)

i feel useless as a condom machine in the vatican. i'm glad i'm not the only one. i can't do anything anymore, my dps is literally cut in half. i think healing classes can do more damage than us now :/

maybe theres something i'm not doing right, but i'm not exactly a noob. i've been playing mmos for over 10 years and i generally know what i'm doing. but ever since the BH nerf my character seems completely useless. i went from always being at the top of dps in pvp to always being at the bottom. and yes, i've geared up fairly decently and it doesnt seem to help. just now i was on illium to do dailies and i ran into two strong medic class npcs and i cant kill them. they heal each other and their heals are higher than my damage. thats just sad. i have silence in my main hand. my gear is decent enough for HMs tho not raid worthy but still... i'm merc, and i suck. either i need help to play my character better or the game is broken. i think its the later but i appreciate any advice.

i'm useless in pvp now. its just retarded.