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The state of my profession? I've posted many times on this particular thread, but it's time for my last post. The state of my profession is BROKEN, NERFED, USELESS and a few choice words I can't say here. You people (SOE) don't care and now I no longer care. I'll be dropping MCH soon. If it weren't for my interest in PVP I'd quit the game altogether. Once that interest peters out you can be sure I'll cancel my subscription. I'm sick of the complete lack of interest in what we have to say. Vert might as well be talking out of his ass. I'm so disgusted with it all.

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Worfed wrote:

Nice work Vertex.

Interested to read comments about not selling and combat. I do still sell variety of pets, including large numbers of Non CH, albeit not for huge amounts -)

The ability to call pets outside City / CAMP would be an immediate and effective change, giving the opportunity to call the high level pet appropriate to the Weapons deployed of the PvP player faced (according to resists). I don't see this as hugely imbalancing comabt capability but it would provide versatility. At present any player can HotKey Switch a Weapon anywhere - why not pets.

Worfed.

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A most interesting question for which many MCH's await an answer (other than "pets are not weapons" which has been throughly debunked in open debate.)

Lets do a reasonable (to me) thought experiment. I am an artisan, miner, Merchant and MCH. Observing that there are no points left over for any other combat profession I look at the MCH or Rifleman or Pistoleer or Fencer etc. Of just the 4 examples listed which one gets no defense bonus? Which one gets to wait to switch to an alternate game mechanic item to serve as a shield (think armor if shield doesnt work for you) (Objection leading the witness. Overruled.) Which one gets to wait to switch to an alternate game mechanic item to serve as a damage dealing device. Which one gets to NOT EVEN EQUIP one of the above if it isn't already available when combat begins. Which one can NOT switch damage dealing device(s) at will during combat. Which one has a lot of very frustrated players if they were in the profession for a long time. Which one gets to use 2 damage dealing devices at (almost) the same time? (you have 30 sec to answer all the above begining now.
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How well did you do? The answer is MCH of course. So after thinking about it are the DEVs telling us to abandon all hope of being useful or just that we get to prove how resourceful we are by beating the opponet(s) while hogtied?

-Indene- (Note to self. It is a good thing I can outrun most critters on my speeder or I would be dead a whole lot more or would give up CH ).

P.S. Combat medic, Commando and others get to use 2 damage dealing devices so it is not just MCH that can do that. Don't remember? Think poison.

All things I have read in this thread are things that I agree with. Though in looking at the age of many of the comments and the current date it has become appearent to me that the devs really dont care about the profession. I have one friend that has already stopped playing and moved on to BF vietnam as he got bord running around looking for useless pets and could not pvp. This post is from Jan and tomorrow is April 1, not much has changed. Hope we see come changes soon.