I think the tre community might have a problem with this

Xer'enia/ Shadow/ Wildcard/ Reublic

This is why I defend on my assassin and don't call Inc's greater than 2. Or attack the off node, which is basically defending cause I very rarely lose

Still maining the sin but my sniper is coming close to my favorite which is odd since I hate ranged classes for the most part

Let's also not forget that ap has no problem being kited, in fact it is the one kiting, while it's very difficult to stay on target for deception. Op is probably just crying cause he lost to an assassin on his pt

If a wz is competitive it means that people of equal skill are fighting ech other, ie not a farm fest. This doesn't mean everyone is a tier 1 ranked player, but if the dps are inexperience then the healers and tanks are as well. So, if you have good healers and want competitive then you have good dps as well, and a good dps can sit on a healer. It's true that some dps are better for it (OP says ap but the true anti heals is deception) but if you can put out a decent amount of dps and know how to use cc and interrupts properly, a healer goes from healing his team to healing himself. So the stagnant matches you are talking about are when both teams are good but in respect to the dps, the healers are more skilled. Or people are just farming for dps. In a match where everyone is playing objectively it comes a lot more to luck and dps comp

Xytania \ Assassin \ Deception \ Empire

1 dps can't kill a healer (most of the time) by himself but he can force the healer to focus on healing himself, which is just as good. If you time your stuns and interrupts properly he'll have a hard time living through it. This allows the rest of your team to kill everyone else, then you have up to six more dps fighting him, and if any of them are able to dps a little youre gonna kill him

Check out kreas build. I believe he is running tank set bonus with high endurance power mods and power crit enhancements with fortitude augments. Nets you 90k health with a nice damage boost and decent survivability.

I did what you did as well. I main a deception sin and play concealment a lot and used my insta 60 on a sniper. Since I haven't really ever played sniper I'm leveling to 65 through pvp and after the last week and a half I have to say that marksman is the best suited if you like the big burst play style. I played engineering and got pretty good with it but the only problem is that it takes a lot of ramp up to get your burst going. The overall damage is great, plus the extra stun from emp discharge is good too, but I can't get away from marksman. I also plan on trying out ranked on this too in the future, and for that marksman is definitely the way to go

There have been a million threads about people wanting to have arena removed from regs and yolols to be removed but that's because the people who don't enjoy them are the only ones posting. I enjoy arenas in regs, and I enjoy solo ranked (although I think that g ranked should at least get better rewards since it is the best measure of skill).

Bolster would appear to be bugged so the best you can do is 1936. The 190 stuff an instant 60 has at the start should get you that.

I think it's cause in 4v4 people group for cleaves a lot more often. In 8v8 it's usually a lot more spread out, especially since you're more likely to get more ranged dps on the enemy team. That combined with what you said about 4v4 healing being better, it might make a difference? That said, I've always wanted to sync a Q in 8v8 with 8 healers on one team and 8 dps on the other, then have a dps/hps farm to see what's possible in all the maps. That would be very interesting...

Both storylines are very similar. They start as a hunt for relics and knowledge stuff, like consular and inquisitor do, there are some developments that make your life harder, you fight stuff, it heats up toward the end, you kill stuff, blah blah blah. I enjoyed consular more (strange enough) because it was fun to be super contradictory in my character. If you've already done inquisitor, go for consular because it really is enjoyable. The only thing that I can think would affect your choice is faction imbalance but you didn't specify that as an issue so why not shadow? (Plus psychokinetic blast is cooler than ball lightning to me for some reason)

Be that as it may, the only class that has anything close to the survivability of deception is Mara and jug which is a very far cry. Buffing burst would be nice but anything too much and we start a hatred situation