Curt I love you . This is a great thread

Based on quick looks since I'm at school right now (rip) 1) your apms are trash. That will just get better the more comfortable you get with the spec and class really 2) no shattered armor debuff? Idk how much damage that will increase but that will at least be some 3) you can be a lot more aggressive with energy than you are being. The great thing about engi is its ammo regen is amazing and you can be really aggressive with it and stil recover fairly easy. Just a side tip , do a 1.5mil . 1 mil is just obsolete now. Also use your rolls. Your dummy parsing. I get people say "I want to be better for raid environments" but it's the exact same thing. I'll look over more when I get home

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This exactly

Time to have a fun debate. As most people would probably say what you do and that virulence out performs engineering in raid environments I'd have to disagree on most fights. Df- Nefra (engi), Draxxus (engi) , grob (engi) , c0 (engi, personally my favorite engi fight as you can easily pull between 7.6 and 8.2 without trying) , brontes (still up in the air, I played mm on my first kill but since that spec is aids now and I haven't pulled it since idk what to play right now) DP- bestia (engi) , tyrans (viru) , calph (engi) , raptus (engi) , council (viru or engi , both are really good) TFB- writhing (engi) , dread guards (engi or viru depending on your groups ability to handle the ads) , operator (engi) , Kephess (lol play mm if u want this fight will forever be a joke) , TFB (engi , you'll just have to be aware on boss hp cuz to much plasma probe can actually push boss) SnV- dash (engi) , Titan (engi) , trasher (engi or mm, either works) , op chief (whatever spec works) , olok (engi) , warlords (viru) , styrak (viru) Ec- z&t (viru) , tanks (viru) , vorgath (engi) , Kephess (engi) ToS & Rav - engi for all except with a debate of revan , if your good at revan and you've done the strafing method for abs then engi but if not play viru Hope all of this helps. Again these are all personal preference and like Tyrlen said above, HM you can play whatever really.

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I honestly don't think a parse is what you should be worrying about for virulence. All of the best virulence parses had great timing crits to keep their energy alive. In full 224's you should be cinsistently at abt 6.8 but getting the 7k -7.1k is all rng luck. As long as you understand the rotation of dirty fighting / virulence you will be fine.

Well Virulence did get a 5% nerf to SoS so I can see a slight dps decrease but not very much.

Bs, i mcwreck ppl in pvp in viru. idgaf what people say mm , and viru are still good for ranked. also engi and viru are still some of the best specs in the game on the pve side of things. looking at http://parsely.io/parser/leaderboard you can see engi is the highest sniper parse with viru following close behind and that snipers and mara's basically dominate the pve dps single target sustained.

Pretty sure we did this naked and only used punch and jab

Honestly none of the specs in the game need a nerf. MM is under performing at what most "burst" specs are at but is at a good spot. Engi is perfect where it is. Its not the number one spec in the game (any good sin or pt can beat the best engi player on most fights, even some mara's). Virulence is probably the most appealing spec in the game though. It looks fantastic and its really fun to use and is under performing compared to where it should be. The Bioware stealth nerf's were dumb and should just change the coefficients back to where they were pre 4.0

Marksman deserves a nerf yes, but engineering doesn't. Where its at now is a great spot for it, sure its over powered on a dummy parse but pvp and pve is perfect where its at and where it should be. Marksman is a bit overpowered though and it does deserve a bit of a nerf but not a major one. Virulence needs a buff though, its in basically the same spot as IO for mercs.

So this is the second highest parse right now: http://parsely.io/parser/view/98569/0 the apms are about 4 slower than most at that high and the crit is a little bit lower also he uses his grenade on cooldown basically. does anyone know how this person could possibly be gear to pull numbers like this?

Virulence is a weak spec right now and it makes no sense as to why. For no reason should your single target dot spec be worse than your burst spec on a one boss fight. That's the case right now for basically ever fight. Virulence needs a to get a buff.

so i transferred to this server and now only this character is stuck on a load screen and it also wont let me transfer back, any ideas or fixes? no response to my tickets yet from the devs