ok so here we have the 50% damage in pvp...
now we have a soldier zoning in with a shield that blocks 75% of that 50%.....wow..now my damage is down to 12.5%!
so lets take my gun, the ql 188 raenee my damage ranges from 60-1000 ,2600ish crits on mobs and with 1000 ranged init i have about 1second attack/reload.
so, using the weapon damage calculator at
http://kuren.org/ao/weapon.php
my average damage per second is 491 with 20% crit rate (LMA + hud upgrade adds1%)
this is on mobs though....
so lets take that to half for pvp, we get 245. ok im not in bad shape still my aim shot can do 40% usually and the rest of that can go down in maybe 10sec with that damage average..
now lets add the soldier mk shield!
13% of 491 is a whole 68 damage per second!
and these shields last for 1minute + at higher levels
Ive never seen a pvp fight at these levels last more then 20 seconds.
so with a lvl 150 soldier lets say hes atrox , has around 5k hp and comes in with his shield.
i get around maybe 400 aim shot if im lucky with their shield on so hes at 4600 health now.first aid heals that......
now with my averaging 68 damager per second after that i would need 73 seconds to kill this soldier and stay alive at the same time. add an alpha strike to me im just about dead in 5seconds.
just a little math, if your going to nerf damage and not shields and any other buffs that unbalance theirs no point.