The more I play my engi in PVP lately the more butthurt I feel in general.
The bottom line is that engies eat a ****-tonne of damage and have very limited methods for mitigating it.
* special spam is more prominent now than it's EVER been (notably since troaler/pehwer nearly every support class can eat our blockers well within the recharge time; fixers and soldiers can basically de-blocker us in 13 seconds, which basically means blockers mean F-all in mass PVP)
* and we eat more damage than we've ever eaten in the history of AO due to there being more add dmg available via raidbuffs, and most obviously, we eat all perks and add dmg adds to perks.
Which basically amounts to engies having not nearly sufficient defence for incoming damage for nearly any prof.