17:49: [Irongryphon2] Phormex: Agents are the masters of damage in SL, on paper. There is a big problem with this, and that is the fact that it is indeed on paper. In reality, we are having trouble hitting same level mobs and lower level mobs for more than minimum damage, and most of our damage budget comes from these regular shots.
17:49: [Irongryphon2] Phormex: We are an extremely weak profession, and massive damage only balances us. But defences > offences by far, heck, even our perk specials are hard to land due to the fact that defences are so overpowered.
17:49: [Irongryphon2] Phormex: In addition to this, we are not balanced at all towards other professions. Take a look at martial artists for example. They do the same or more damage than agents, and have twice the defence (I can back this up with actual tests performed on test server). (Oh, and saying agents have the advantage of range isn't really viable anymore, SL mobs have 50 meter range anyway).
17:50: [Irongryphon2] Phormex: This probably sounds like a long agent-whine, and to round it off, I will say that being a level 200 agent is pretty enjoyable. We aren't the best profession out there, but far from the worst. This is mainly because we hit our max potential for using mimic profession around level 200. The problem is 200-220 and 120-190. This is where we struggle.
17:50: [Irongryphon2] Phormex: Agents need to seriously be looked at as a profession. FunCom needs to decide on whether to keep or to throw away false profession as a consept. If they want to keep it, they need to improve it and make it our profession defining ability.
17:50: [Irongryphon2] Phormex: If they want to throw it away, they need to do just that, and make us an independant class. (Just like they promised in early SL BETA). Damage alone ain't gonna cut it, at least not until they raise our damage by a substantial amount.
17:50: [Irongryphon2] Phormex: As a final note, make the Pinpoint rifle available to neutrals. It is a huge part of our damage template, and neutral agents will be more or less gimped in the endgame.
17:50: [Irongryphon2] Phormex: yeah for neutral love, im done
