Smuggler Archive
Thread: Concussion Shot Root vs. Mez
SwenLaransa wrote:
Mez > Root vs ranged
Root > Mez vs melee
I want both
you can get both... just not with Smuggler
lurdanta wrote:
SwenLaransa wrote:
lurdanta wrote:
I want beer.
I had beer last night. Too much beer.
Then you need pie...maybe even meat pie...maybe even two pies...
Got free donuts at work. Not as good as pie, but better than nothing.
Actually, if it gets changed to a mez you're going to see a lot more people dabbling in Smuggler to get it. I respecced to MBH/MRM/Pistol xx4x, but I'll drop the pistol and pick up smuggler if I can apply a real, full mez that can put things totally out of the fight for a while.
Face it, most things worth fighting are ranged. When you currently root something as a smuggler, yes its stuck and you get to beat on it with your ranged, but unless you're a rifleman, it's beating on you too. So right now most of you guys are medics to keep yourselfves healed during this beating.
When root changes to mez, I suggest you drop some of the healing that I'm sure most of you have and pick up some ranged state attacks in pistol or BH. Beat your targets with damage and defense while adding the flexibility of a real mez.
Silly roots just make you a target dummy anyway.
Eavik wrote:
As I'm more of a PVE type of player, I'm happy to see concussion become a mez instead of a root - for the exact same reasons you listed above. Not neccessarily just to mez, run and fd...but so it will become easier to focus your attack on one npc at a time, without getting blasted by the other 5 guys agrod on you.
Root has been pretty useless to me overall. The only time I've ever gotten any use out of it is when I do need to run away, and don't want to be followed...but the mez still accomplishes that for me even better than a root.
I won't miss root at all.
What will kill you is that the mez will be EXTREMELY valuable in PvP.
Kylania wrote:
I just can't see how you say that. Root is far superior to mez for PvE in small scale battles. I have no idea why you're attacking 6 things at once. Previously I'd be able to root an animal and take NO DAMAGE at all because it could never get to me.
Not all PVE is against animals.
Try going up on the avatar, or corvette, or DWB, or Geo Cave...or any other dungeon. You're not going to have much of a choice in having multiple NPCs attack you. That is where root is really useless. With root, instead of having 5 guys beating the hell out of my with a stick, I have 5 guys standing there blasting me with pistols and rifles. Yay Root!
With a mez, I can take 4 of the 5 guys out of the fight completely, while I focus on just one at a time. That is an improvement. That is crowd control.
GanymedePharuu wrote:
SwenLaransa wrote:
Mez > Root vs ranged
Root > Mez vs melee
I want both
you can get both... just not with Smuggler