Soldiers in this game have been royaly screwed. Soldiers are suppose to be a damage inflicting profession, and we are out damaged and get beaten by nano prof's.
Every other profession has been given something new thats useful. All us soldiers got was a bunch of nanos with LEVEL REQ's that most of us can never use, (self cast too) and also got a gun.
Right now, the Soldier is the most gimped profession in AO. Sometimes I wonder if FC has just decided to ignore all the soldier's posts for something to make the profession how it was origenally design to be.