Whats this? Soldiers should be doing the most damage? Thats not fair, whats the use in melee then? We cant touch any rooting classes, soldiers can. Enforcers can kill rooters a.k.a. HALF of the professions. Give us Enforcers/Melee Classes some sort of advantage here. It really doesnt matter how much dmg i can do if i cant touch the person anywayz. Make rage really cheap and effective, that way they can get their roots off and some extra damage without having direct contact for too long, but in the end we will be able to fight them man to man, woman to woman . This way seems managable, if you are looking for fixes for your game, look at the players. Thats where all the true idea come from. I dont see any other way that we can fix this.
In favor of soldiers i will rant here. A 185 fixer can solo trash king, tanking him with his HoT blaring and his supressor roaring, but a soldier cannot. My guild leader, 191 Soldier cannot tank Trash King, i have, though, seen a 185 fixer tank trash king (not even using root n run). Changes need to be made here. Get Soldiers some Str/Stam buffs like essences so they can wear armor equal to ours. Or better yet give them Str/Agi buffs to make the classes more diverse. Get them some Soldier only armor that uses Str/Agi so they can have some sort of advantage over a fixer.
Another thing is to nerf trader PvP altogether. Even the name "Trader" does not allow for PvP. Flame away: it will make you look greedy and selfish if you support boosting everything on a particular class making them ulti-uber. When you chose the trader class you shouldnt have chosen it if you were planning on lots of MMD raids. I am not a trader but i agree that they *should* be able to level up off of tradeskills alone. If you arent going to allow for Tradeskill leveling, boost their PvM and nerf their PvP altogether so they couldnt even kill an engi. It is absolute garbage that a "fighting" class cannot touch a "Trader". Ludicrous Rediculous. The other day in a mission i was fighting a trader mob that divested me and debuffed me, my weap was 25% effective and no nanos. That means not even a soldier with a QL200 Nova could kill a Trader with a QL100 crap sprayer.
Make for some melee class changes quick. Especially the enforcers, afterall MAs can use Gun-Fu ;]. It will be a sad day when you see me at level 200 PvPing with a Vektor Shotgun as an enforcer. It will be even sadder if i cant afford the IP for a shotgun and just avoid fighting with my "fighting" class. get on it! And i mean next patch! This is a HUGE issue here. Put me on developing team if you dont feel like it