N A T E.3108

So... as scrapper in pvp, being a part of the out-of-play class list, I have a plead for anet. PLEASE, do not nerf protection injection for us. We need that protection pretty bad considering that this update is ANOTHER nerf to an already dead class. The last major update removed 300 toughness and 20% condi reduction for a 1k barrier/3s. This made us considerably more squishy to spikes and conditions. Along with this, we lost TONS of condition removal viability through alchemy, because we have always been dependant on that trait line for condi (purge gyro is a joke: bad ai, and at the cost of a stunbreak utility). So, please, stop trying to kill us. Scrapper is a fun class and I love it.

Also, I realize that you want us to run alchemy and inventions for the protection clear.... but you have to realize that by going full bunker, we lose ALL damage. Not just a little, I mean all. It's terrible and those few little barrier skills are jokes, esp when you are forced to take Heal gyro in place of healing turret to maximize that the protection/clear trait. I have tried full bunker, and honestly, I still can nearly be one-shotted by a mesmer, or beat down by a single warrior. It isn't a viable bunker class.

So please... just stop with the nerfs. No one even plays scrapper, nor have they for a long time now (even before last balance update)... at least give us something to make up for the loss in Protection injection, self-regulating defenses, adaptive armor, and alchemy. These have been nerfs focused only on holosmith, and you all haven't taken into account what it is doing to scrapper.

Please don't nerf protection injection this hard! Scrapper has already been hit hard by the loss of toughness and condition removals (from elixers)- if possible, please at least extend the protection time for protection injection- Holosmith has access to a lot of protection anyway with the condi-boon conversion with forge, so this nerf really is just another really hard hit to scrapper and core engi, without hardly affecting holosmith.