i went from 5k cits to 4k crits and those arent consistent, most of the time its hitting for around 2k. i said **** it and rolled pyro and when my mara is finished i probably wont use my bh again. bw just ruined the entire merc ac, gj

maras have an aoe stun now?

its 30 seconds, 27 if talented. only carnage gets the talanted and its only shorter if your class doesnt have a talanted knockback

its the best damaging ability that spec has. if it wasnt for that ability that spec wouldnt be viable period. like people have said, kb or stun and youve ruined most of their damage

knockbacks arent true interrupts. do your SCIENCE before you post any false information its spelled SCIENCE btw. also, its "do your research" not "do your science". FAIL X2

they changed that but in the process they made it so HSM wasnt benefiting from any of the AP stacks at all

i respecced to pyro today from arsenal due to the mishandling of HSM (can BW ever release a patch without breaking something?) and i felt vastly underpowered. granted this was my first day but im gonna stick it out for a week and see how it goes

im pretty sure all of our attacks that come from our blasters are ranged and everything else (ie. missiles and RS) are tech

ravage is uninterruptable genius

our rotation is THREE buttons. get it right please how about we take every hit of ravage and make it into one tick so you cant run outside of the range before it finishes? while were at it, lets increase the crit chance since we are losing a few ticks from this move. savvy? gotta love the people who dont know how to play and want i win classes/buttons

you digress

those are cc and not defensive cds. also, our second "knockback" doesnt knockback out of melee range so it isnt really a complete knockback at all is it?

you forgot obfuscate and force camo. to compare, an arsenal merc gets one cd, energy shield. its on a 2 min cd and reduces damage by 25% for 12 seconds. i think the mara has it pretty good in the defense dept

i still find the ineptness of noob bracket players unsettling. i usually end up too frustrated so i give up and just tdm for my medal count

it takes a special company to ruin a game AND their forums in one week. GJ BW!

it goes great with the "greatest" forum change ever. seriously BW *** are you doing? revert to pre 1.2 and change this ridiculous forum so i can actually read posts and navigate now

this forum is so hard to read now. i bet they did this on purpose to lower forum traffic

those buffs and nerfs dont really mean anything with the change to expertise. yes HSM got buffed by 10% but i went from 4k max crits (once in a blue moon, usually 3.5k) to 5.6k crits. my tracer crits went down from 2-2.5k to 1.4-1.8k. does that sounds like 10% on either side? the only two explanations are that expertise is playing a bigger role in the math or TN/HSM got nerfed/buffed more than stated in the patch notes. considering that defense reduction was lowered with expertise but TM still has a more than 10% damage reduction im not quite sure what to think at this point

when i play on my merc i have a harder time with juggs than maras because of all of the ****in leaps and unstoppable. they are impossible to keep away

ive never had a HSM crit for more than 5.6k and that was with only the aim stim since HSM crits are so sporadic. im also in almost full bm (short bracers, belt, relic, and both weapons)

it wont show up as your biggest hit unless that player had that exact amount of health or more. for example if you hit for 9k but the player only had 5k life left it will show up as a 5k hit

i knew i was gonna see HSM QQ after 1.2. hows all that crying going for you now? my highest crit from HSM is 5.6k and i am 2-3 pieces shy of a full bm set, this is only with the aim stim. ive heard of final ticks of ravage hitting for that much so i wouldnt really call it op but you get what you ask for community

so far the one class that has been giving my merc fits are juggs. leap + unstoppable + push + procced leap = not getting away. short of blowing a cc theres nothing i can do to keep them away and they destroy me with ravage

my merc is helping the 12 colonies battle the cylons and find "earth" for the time being im finishing bm so i can shelve him when my mara hits 50

this is the general build i use for pvp and pve http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#300Mc0MZMIkbRrdRzszZc.1