I posted part of this in the Escort forum also.
With changes i still can be right up there at the top of kills and damage.
I am happy with the changes. When i go into fight i feel i am really fighting someone insted of WHAM they are dead. PvP now seems more realistic. I am having a blast and working as a team is a must if you want to win a game. No more look i can make 1 pass and kill 3 ppl.
In all i think PvP in my escort is more fun now, more of a challange and for sure more fun for the ppl who used to get 1-2 shot and dead.

So good job cryptic.
Only bad thing i have found is the Klingon side kind of got slapped in the face with the cloak changes.
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great change
WHAT!!!!!!!!
1- cant kill anyone solo <
What game are you playing or should i say how are you playing it? I can kill solo just fine. Maybe not as fast, but i can kill.
2- cant heal yourself decently <
I have never had it so easy to keep my shields up and if you spec right your hull can be fixed very easy.
3- all sci/engineering powers must be healing <
not true my two eng have EPTW love it.
4- no chance against a good cruiser <
Learn how to get behind them and stay there. Don't keep the same shield facing them. Let them beat on left or right and keep your fireing on them arc them as much as possable. When that shield starts to feel some pain turn your other side shield to them.
After that starts to go turn your front to him. Rinse and repete. By the time you cycle back to the first facing shield it will have regened. If you have to, turn 180 hit Evasive and come back useing RSP that way you can come in fast and hard then slow once on his butt. Keep pounding his rear shield it will go down.
If you are saying 1v1 you can't stay behind a crueser, then all i can say is learn. You are in an escort. You are faster and can turn much better. Learn to use your speed settings and learn how to turn in a smaller arc slowing down then speed up.
1v1 you can stay behind a cruiser, but that's not even close to guaranteeing you a win. In tribble testing my cruiser won fight after fight after fight against BoPs, escorts, whatever. Some against very respected escort pilots. In perhaps 30 or 40 1v1 fights in my cruiser I think I lost 3. And 2 were to very well timed tricobalt shots from Santa Claws (in a carrier no less).
1v1 it is EXCEEDINGLY difficult for any ship to kill a healing specced cruiser.
I never said it was easy or you would win all the time. Just responded to it being said it can't be done... I do it and i have done it more than just a few times. But, ppl seem to forget PvP is group effort. Escorts do great damage easy if you are speced right and have the right BO skills. Even after the patch.
Also many escort players forget to get right on them. Your turrets will miss less and do better overall damage. 1 other thing a well placed beam overload three at the right time can be deadly still.