Quote Originally Posted by Buff_Archer View Post
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The thing is, the game isn't designed around 1v1. It never was, not even in wolves den (which is a joke of its own). Getting jumped by a melee (espesically when you are a caster) in an isolated area, should by all means be a death sentence. But someone has mentioned this before, either the ninja was literally the worse player in history, summoner is more overpowered than people would like to think, or maybe it's both.

As a Machinist, my burst damage is pretty insane as well, but it's not to the same degree or reliability as that of a summoner's since it's on a longer effective cooldown, and we have a 50% damage penalty if we're not within sweetspot range. My defense isn't all that better than a melee's either, and my burst can be rendered just as ineffective as a summoner's through a quickly-timed purify.