yeah hhe i agree with the psychological thing. I've beengetting owned by traders since day 1 and its really annoying for me as well as others.
Level 200 soldier, well equipped... experienced, heads to arena, tabs green trader.
gets totally owned.
it's rather frusterating considering the amout of time you put into your character.. and your character is not what you expected when you started it in characte creation.
in my argument i am not really sighting specific weapons, or trying not too. its hard to put into words what im exactly trying to say.
it's just the way AO is setup. A soldier IS a great damage dealer and half decent tank becase thats what we do, its all we do.
the problem lies in game mechanics allowing classes with blue weapon skills to do substantial damage, not as much as a soldier per say. but enough to raise eyebrows.
bottom line, it comes down to.. combat oriented classes cannot "learn" to tradeskill or buy tradeskill buffs, or get dots, or heals, or slows or anything of the sort.
these classes that can tradeskill, heal, dot, debuff, slows can "learn" to use weaposn and do substantial damage.
I'd like it so that soldiers ma's enfs (they are where they should be imo) should be a step more above docs traders engies in overall damage output because face it.. thats all we do : )
i know this sounds like a flame.. but if you wanted a class that was really strong in pvp why do ppl choose one with green tradeskill and tradeskill buffs?