You can hook 3 people, yeah, that’s what I said too to the PvP guilds, but then you are compared to Cryomancers and Psychokinos that can disable 10-20 people at a go, your 3-man hook with 25s cooldown is kinda meh. You don’t have a plus point above them, guild slots are limited, why would they want to waste it on a job that can basically only hook and do nothing else? Cryos can freeze multiple people & use Ice wall to create space, Kinos can CC through bloodletting, all this while dealing MORE damage that you can do and being ranged. Aaand you can hook 3 people (if you can land it accurately 100% consistently on targets that matter, not the frontliners, in the first place, at less than 5fps), if you miss, then basically you’re useless for 25s.
If you wanna say your job is just to hook and stay, I can do that too. I can just hook ppl and that’s it, maybe 5s lesser than you. I can do the exact same thing you can do, since you said you’re not expected to do damage. But if you can stand there for 19s not moving without dying in GvG I’d recommend you actually try it out first. Healers are prioritizing squishy DPS classes like wiz and archers for Safety zone, they won’t waste any on you. Unless you went full CON, your HP isn’t gonna last you long, DPS classes have sick damage. Reason it’s harder to die is because of mobility, many spells have to be aimed. But if you’re not moving, you’re just a sitting duck. And if you DID went full con, that would mean your damage would be crap, and this points us back to why would people take a 3-man disabler over a 10-20 man disabler… You’re using a pistol, and not a shield, and that doesn’t add to your survivability at all, you can’t even hold C and block.
Your plus point that you emphasise on is that you can attack with pistol while hooking. But if you’re dealing low damage while hooking, that isn’t much of a plus point at all… If you want to kill people you’d need burst damage, not some damage that the PD can just use healing factor to regen back. Not to mention, hook is at a ranged, you can’t even bring those 3 guys you hooked to your team, Cata3 at least can Impale one of them and bring them back to your side for the ultimate rekt. You would have to get your team into the enemies’ danger zone to actually do damage to the guys you hooked.
I can also jump when I hook, weapon switching is the LEAST of my problems (comparing to all the other problems), it’s only a technical difficulty that one has to get used to, the main problem is when you jump, they are knocked back, which gets them out of melee range. Even in your case it would still gimp your damage, your 80k hexen won’t able to touch them. Your pistol would probably give them a few scratches, ouch.
Until they fix this, I’m only seeing perhaps some potential in 5v5 Team Battle League, seeing hooking 3 people would render 3/5 people disabled, letting the other 4 members of your team to rekt the remaining 2 in the 15-19s that they have. As for GvG, it’s a no-no as for now.