Whats your WZ average DPS on your Merc

[otherworlder]

That's just what we do. We are a damage turret with puny utility. It would be nice to have more but that's clearly not how they intend our class to be, sadly....

 

Pre 1.2, yes.

 

Now we're a damage turret without the damage. All other dps classes kill more quickly and more efficiently than we do. Our burst is a joke.

 

Pyro merc is the only viable pvp spec for us right now, but that doesn't mean it's good. Tossing up sick damage on the scoreboard often means that you're killing inefficiently (loading gradual dot damage onto tanks/healers/etc and having it healed off or ignored).

 

Quick, efficient kills are what work in pvp. With Arsenal gutted, neither it nor Pyro can still do that unless facing undergeared pugs. The dude sitting with most damage at the end of a match is not always the one with the most killing blows (not kills, but killing blows, something the silly scoreboard metrics don't track and would go a long way toward telling us who is actually the scariest player on the field).

[Sinsavz]

Pre 1.2, yes.

 

Now we're a damage turret without the damage. All other dps classes kill more quickly and more efficiently than we do. Our burst is a joke.

 

Pyro merc is the only viable pvp spec for us right now, but that doesn't mean it's good. Tossing up sick damage on the scoreboard often means that you're killing inefficiently (loading gradual dot damage onto tanks/healers/etc and having it healed off or ignored).

 

Quick, efficient kills are what work in pvp. With Arsenal gutted, neither it nor Pyro can still do that unless facing undergeared pugs. The dude sitting with most damage at the end of a match is not always the one with the most killing blows (not kills, but killing blows, something the silly scoreboard metrics don't track and would go a long way toward telling us who is actually the scariest player on the field).

Killing blows are tracked, you have to mouse over to see them though so they won't appear on most screenshots, but you can monitor them.

 

We're pretty damn good at killing healers actually, at least in pyro. As arsenal they just bubble and sprint away admittedly, and you're absolutely dependant on catching them out in the open. But as pyro I can lurk a little bit, see a marauder or a powertech or something jump on a healer them bam, throw in my detonator, incendiary, rail, and that person is so dead it's not even funny. That's not to say we can't take someone down on our own, it's just that as you say pvp is all about the "quick efficient kills", so we have to be the smart ones and actively go out of our way to make combos....cus nobody else is gonna sync up with us, most dps are dumb and all attack a different target.

 

If I had a complaint about pyro, it's probably that powertech get so much more burst capability it's not even fair, it IS still a good spec for us though.