As a doctor do you know what I'd like the most? That my tool set got tweaked alongside the toolset of weapons professions, but guess what, there are no new team heals since AO launch, and there are no new single heals since SL (not that we need it), and there are no extension to the rest of our toolset (besides a few DoTs) since AO launch either. When was the last time weapons were implemented, evades got buffed through research, or new and shiny armor was added to buff these further? Oh hey, that was only two months ago, and already the outline of patch 17.2 is *gosh* new weapons...
Do you guys reading this thread from a weapons professions perspective have any grasp of how this makes you feel when you log in? Nope, I think not...
SL/AI/LE - every single expansion saw an extention of AR and defense to everyone but the support professions. Sure we got maybe a single weapon there, and piece of armor here, and an improved nano there - but hey let's take a look at a fixer/soldier today, how is the setup looking. Full AI armor, nice and sleek, looking good, weapons from AI and LE, except SPB you say, but uh no, that one got improved in a patch not long ago didn't it? How does my doctor look? Well compared to a fixer for example, it looks like crap - GPH, Tier 3 pads, Jathos chest/pants, OFAB sleeves, Leo boots, and whatever gloves I find funny to wear - my weapon? Well I ran around with Ithaca up until now *gasp* RK weapon with minimum dmg 1. A myriad of different armors, not fitting together. I have to shop around different armor sets that suit my setup while on my soldier I can smack on a set of CC and an SMG/jpgpp and I pwn by default.
Yes this is a rant, yes this is probably just bable and there'll be ten people to contradict it and tell me how wrong we are and that we got plenty of content for support professions over time... yea right...
Edit: Yes MPs and Traders are getting a little love in 17.2, but let's not throw our hands in the air singing praises before we see what it is they are implementing. I'd like to see a stun that shuts down evades, tell me please how you are gonna be evading shizzle if you are stunned? But if it follows the usual pattern then traders will get another debuff that they don't want because they already have to cast a ton of debuffs, and MPs will get maybe a new 2HB buff line...