1. Impenetrable traits on 6-8 pieces of crafted gear. if you dont have it....anyone with critical hit chance can hit you for 600x1.5 more damage. if you do have it, only NB's and critical rush can auto crit you.

2. Radiant Magelight. The other not so well known morph of magelight. 56% percent reduction in all damage taken from any stealth attack.

3. Dodge roll completely negates projectile attacks like snipe and crystal fragments

4. Potions. The ones that give you invisibility are good and so are the super healing potions. Try to use them after removing debuffs.

5. Break out of stuns fast. Right click+left click. If you arent doing this fast, your going to die fast. If you feel your reflexes are not fast enough thats okay, you can use immovable and not have to worry about the stun. Pro tip: you can bind breakout on mousewheel up like i do and never be slow/stuck on the break.

6. Blocking+purging yourself. Most damage has a hidden killer- disease. It reduces your healing. If youre a templar, you should always have cleanse on your loadout. If your anything else, youll need to rank up purge in the alliance tree and morph it to a reduced cost.

7. Reflective scales if your a DK and Absorb Magic(defensive posture) if your a 1h/shield to reflect snipe. Evasion works well too and im told it stacks with other evasive stuff. All others will need damage shields.

8. Have at least 3000 health if you arent stacking damage shields or have a good escape mechanism. Sorcerers can bolt escape so some can even go below 2k health. NB's have shadow cloak. However if your a DK or a Templar, you arent so lucky and have to be tough to survive. I recommend 3500k for the latter classes.

9. Use the environment. Hide behind trees, rocks, other players. If i had a gold piece for everytime ive seen a player running past a rock formation while getting hit by snipe, id have like 700 billion gold.

10. Spend less time on your horse and more time on foot. Even having 4k health you can still be killed if dismounted by a ganker. Practice not dying as a style of play. Dont follow the trend of killing and dying liek everyone else does. Practice never dying, even when the odds are completely against you and death is certain. I have escaped sure death many times just by surviving and practicing not dying.

11. Versus Snipe a DK uses Scale. A nightblade uses Shadow cloak. A templar uses blazing Shield and purge. A sorc uses conjured ward and bolt escape.

12. You have to practice not dying always. Even if the devs return using forward camps, try not to die. This will train you to not overextend and attack nonsensical targets.

13. Stop thinking that what happens to you are the basis for whats fair and unfair. If you are getting wrecked, dont come on the forums and say something is OP, find out what you are doing wrong. While something can be abused, most are just game mechanics that have counters and ways to improve against.