Lol, just saw Phaser's post after putting together mine. Cheers for that!

After playing a healer merc for quite a long time, I decided to check out the PvP viability of arsenal (with full WH mods & set bonus for dps) , and I too was disappointed with the "glass cannon" aspect of the AC. Sure, it can be a lot of fun and great numbers against pugs who don't prioritize kills or focus target, but terrible dps and survivability against even the slightly-above-average premade with some WZ experience and awareness. Second, not sure why they took away the 2nd KB, what about it screamed "nerf me!" to the devs? In a dps spec, the loss of this ability became immediately apparent as something that would be a little more helpful in a 1v1 against a melee class instead of a root. Now it would seem that it's only utility is to stop some LoS escape artists from getting away from your melee core, or when having to be the LoSer (pun intended) healer merc doing some pillar hopping. A few other thoughts/suggestions with this class: 1. Allow dps specs to have an improved shield ability similar to "Undying Rage". The 25% dmg reduction prolongs death by about .1 secs against good players. At least let us go out with a "bang" after 5 secs. 2. Add talented stun/root on the only 1 KB we have (similar to snipers/slingers) instead of a larger KB distance which is extremely counter-productive against jumpers anyway. 3. At least make the knockback for Rpunch like ~1 feet like the assassins/shadows sweeping slash or w/e. Feel free to rip this post apart - Servers are down and I was bored.

1.2 has renewed my interest in finding a better MMO Seriously, it's as though the devs don't really like to play their own game. Either that or BW is tip-toeing around trying not to get sued by Blizzard for implementing what they know they should to create a successful MMO experience for all facets of gameplay. I wish I were more easily amused by less.

Yeah, alot of guildies were rather distraught when they found out this was removed. Hearing them complain about it was more annoying than the toy itself. Hell, it was definitely less annoying than the train set in WoW. Frankly the things that BW made disappear were alot of the things I was grinding to get.... now I'm disheartened at the point of my current and future efforts.

A video game shouldn't be a chore, it should be fun. Dual specc'ing solves more problems than it creates. Ever have a problem finding a tank or healer? I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who really like changing roles but don't want to A) go through the pain of setting up their talent trees, and B) having to setup their bars and hotkeys every time. We could also talk about gear management, which is also something lacking even with just pve and pvp gear sets. Lazy? Yeah, maybe, but definitely more fun. Sometimes it feels like I log in to do dishes online.