Sixthy Posted April 10, 2012 Posted April 10, 2012 (edited) Nevermind. Edited April 10, 2012 by Sixthy
MashTactics Posted April 10, 2012 Posted April 10, 2012 I'm not going to lie. I didn't read the whole thing. However, you're overcomplicating it. You said yourself that the most prominent argument is that you have insane damage, coupled with insane survivability. Let's address that step by step. Do you have the best sustained DPS in the game? I'd certainly say yes. Most theorycrafting sites would agree with me. Obviously, theorycrafting is not the same as actual game experience, and scenarios will differ a lot of the time, but it's in the relative ballpark. There. Done. Do you have the best survivability in the game? No. Obviously that's a given. However, I would argue that you are the most well-equipped DPS class in terms of survivability. Your CD's are astounding. Five seconds of near-invulnerability. 12 seconds of significantly reduced universal damage. A chance to disappear and get away from a fight. Not to mention things like the 80% speed boost combined with the group healing. I know a sentinel that has gotten the 75k healing medal in a match before. That's more than I've ever gotten on my Scound or Commando as DPS. Your healing is generated FROM your DPS. It's encouraged. It's quite the opposite for healer-hybrid classes. The class needs to be addressed in some way. Compared to a scoundrel, it's superior in every single way barring straight burst damage.
Semitote Posted April 10, 2012 Posted April 10, 2012 Don't forget 30% damage reduction from AoE abilities if you talent to T2 of the carnage tree (so available to all specs). ROFL?
Zbus Posted April 10, 2012 Posted April 10, 2012 (edited) Ill go ahead and post this http://taugrim.com/2012/01/19/understanding-swtors-avoidance-and-mitigation-mechanics-for-tanks-in-pvp/ before all the but but but you have heavy armor guys pour into this thread. Mitigation skills for Mara/Sent class is way overboard add that to dps, self heals, damage bubbles and stealth and you get the main reason alot of people are haveing issues with this. Edited April 10, 2012 by Zbus
Sixthy Posted April 10, 2012 Author Posted April 10, 2012 Really would have been no need for anyone to pour in and start screaming about other classes abilities because my post didn't really compare sentinels or marauders to other specific classes - it was simply a discussion about damage and high survivability being coupled together in certain situations that exist in warzones that may be balanced in some situations and over powered in others. But I could immediately see that the responses were going to be "but compared to MY class" and completely miss the entire point of the post. So, it's gone. It wasn't good anyways.
MashTactics Posted April 10, 2012 Posted April 10, 2012 Becoming overly-defensive and deleting your post don't instill a frightening amount of confidence in your argument. However, fair enough. I'm not going to press a point.
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