I just want to say... I love my coercer, she is the toon I enjoy most of all my alts. I have a 70 warden and 70 assassin, 44 defiler, 42 inquisitor, and a ton of lower lvl alts of many different classes. None shines like the coercer. It is not a broken class.
I am so looking forward to RoK, because I can go with a group into a slightly too high dungeon or instance again and feel I am the reason the group makes it alive. Yellow/orange cons is where I have the most fun. Any lower lvl place, I don't use all my tools, if nothing unusual happens... just stun/daze/stifle etc. But then again, I can always grab a pet to keep myself busy and up my damage a little.
My healers are great and all, I like keeping people alive... but when there is an emergency I feel powerless as a healer. Some emergency buttons, heal heal heal... oh [Removed for Content] we died, or oh great we lived, that's all. As a coercer, I have real tools to deal with emergencies. I just grab the adds and hold them for as long as needed. (If you never get emergencies... you are fighting too easy content!)
I still smile at the memory of my first time in Fallen Gate with the coercer, with a pickup group. Some adds came, it was pretty chaotic for a while. After the fight, when things was calm again, the tank said: -Hey I think I am stuck in combat. Me: -Umm... could you kill this add too please? A little later, the group wiped except for me and the healer. I charmed one mob and mezzed the other two (yellow heroics). I started typing in chat to the healer to bring the group up... sadly the healer didn't understand the power of the coercer and started to nuke the mobs... LOL [Removed for Content] furys thinking they are dps /grin/. I think that now with all the tools I have, I could have killed the mobs and rezzed the group even with the fury down. No other class can do that in a cramped environment.
There have been quite a few threads lately about how the class suck and how broken it is. I disagree. I feel for you raiders, too bad that you feel worthless. However, I am in a casual non-raiding guild, I group and solo mostly, and I absolutely love the class. I am more powerful as a coercer than any other class. It is only half a joke when I say SoE nerfs us because we are overpowered...
(I die a lot in pvp though, but that's just my lack of pvp skill I believe... lol)
Ramborg, 70/100 coercer of Venekor
Guild leader of Norrsken