Originally Posted by
Raggy
Except everyone is comparing Engineers to Soldiers.
Which is essentially Apples to Oranges, if you ignore the old "Soldier with Pets" saying.
The level of equipment required for an Engineer to self- cast the Widow and all it's DB buffs, is well out of skew of say, a Soldier putting on his Xan of Anger. Sure PvP Engineers make that sacrifice to have to hotswap another 6-7 items to fully buff up their pets, which takes only a little less time than fully buffing a Keeper (it's true). But most Soldiers don't need to make any sacrifice to be efficient PvP killing machines.
"But we can't cast our top AMS". So what? You lose what, 3%? A 220 Engineer without his Widow or Mechdog is going to be doing absolutely nothing.
Sacrifices made by Engineers to be PvP viable outside of having their pets kited everywhere by everyone and everything packing FM Stims completely shadow anything your average Soldier might sacrifice for PvP.
Marine, you're a special case, your Soldier isn't the standard PvP build for a Soldier, using your case in an argument is silly.
tl;dr Soldiers got nothing to cry about in terms of sacrifices and buffing times for PvP