I'll have to get some screenshots when I get home from work. I tried all 3 Marauder specs in 6 pieces of Rakata, 3 Columi and a Tionese MH Carnage: 5/31/5 Test on Operation Dummy Time: 5 minutes DPS: 1250 Annihilation: 31/3/7 Dummy: Operation Test Dummy Time: 5 Minutes DPS: 1370 Rage: 5/4/32 Dummy: Operation Test Dummy Time: 5 minutes DPS: 1040 I will probably have to try a different rotation on Rage, but it is definitely worst for PVE, but it does work well in PVP.

Which one do people prefer in operations and why? I really like using Master Looter. It takes a bit longer, but you don't run into the issue of someone either running off to next boss and making people wait through the timer. It also lessens the chance of someone making a mistake, such as accidentally needed on both of those Rakata pieces because they are both for your class. Anyhow, I am interesting in what other people prefer in operations.

We need a better kite path, haha. I checked the Combat logs and I did like 150k of that damage, which is almost all of it. Tough being in there with someone with no columi!! Wait until you check out the new operation. 1 guild already cleared HM, but that is like the 1%. As for this boss, I love it. there is a ton of **** going on and you have to be on your toes. I love mechanics based fights. Now we have to figure out what we need to do to actually get past this!! Lastly, I am glad repair bills went down significantly!

About the PVP XP stuff. You cannot be perma-49. Turning off XP only has an effect on XP from kills and not quests. You don't get XP from kills in PVP. After a while you will hit 50 regardless. At least that how it normally works.

As a Marauder who has tried all three specs, they all work. Rage works really well when clearing trash on the way to a boss. It doesn't work as well as Carnage in boss fights, but the damage is definitely still there. I haven't tried Annihilation in a HM or OP since I hit 50, but I am willing to give it another go. Carnage is really ****** spec for boss fights. The damage is consistent and when you get Gore up and then use Force Scream, it hits pretty hard. All-in-all. As a marauder, I would feel comfortable in any spec in an operations group. You just have to be on your game when it comes to getting out from cleaves and AEs. Don't make it more difficult on the healer. You are doing something wrong. I have 1 Rakata daily piece, and full Columi. I hit from 3.6-4.3k. Are you putting Force Crush or Force Choking the full 4 stacks of the buff before you use Smash? If not, that would explain the low amount of damage.

Sniper is awesome in PvP, much more fun than Marauder, that is for sure http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v336/Koitsu/Screenshot_2012-03-07_16_22_46_528539.jpg

I don't know why people have so much trouble with this boss. We did this the other night and cleared it on our first try. None of us even have any Tionese gear or anything. In fact the take and my self just have regular level 48-50 gear. The healer has some t1 PVP gear and other DPS has 5 or so pieces of t2 PVP gear. We hit the enrage timer on Jorland but we only had like 5% health left. None of us died. We didn't do the kiting method some people try, we just treated it like a tank and spank.. Burned down the healer, then the guy casting a shield on Jorland, then handled the boss. Was fairly easy.

That is a lazy response. Some people don't have great gear at level 50 and would be nice to be able to run Normal mode level 50 FPs for gear. Instead you are running them for the story, apparently.

All other Flashpoints before level 50 ALWAYS drop Orange or Blue. Some bosses we killed didn't drop anything. I have run all FPs before level 50 at least 5 times. I have yet to see a boss drop a green, even the side bosses drop blues or orange. Meanwhile, you get to level 50 and run FPs that are considerably harder at first and you cannot get nice gear like the other ones.

To be fair, you do get Corellia commendations from each boss and then 6 for the daily. I am fairly certain the Corellia stuff is level 50.

I don't know if this is bugged, but I have run several Normal Mode level 50 flash points. I know they aren't intended to give you the same gear as what you get in Hard Mode, but out of the 3 runs I have done, only the boss dropped something that wasn't green. Is this how these flash points work? If that is the case, why would you run them on anything but hard mode?

That is called Greed and not need. If you have a sniper companion, but have a sniper in the group and the boss drops a sniper rifle... then the sniper Needs that item. You companion is secondary. It is even MORE greed if you just plan selling it to a vendor. How do people not understand this concept?