For that fight, use LOS, interrupts, jet charge, grapple, stun, aoe stun. Alternate interrupts with other forms of interrupts listed above and it's more than doable. Just takes some creative thinking.

Yup. /5char

So if I only want to PVP I should be forced to run operations to be successful? Or I should be able to get the same gear via PVP? 'Cause if I can get the same gear from PVP, that route will probably be much, much easier.

We always have success solving S first, but right about the same time. The only times we have issues is when I can't count to three and call a solve early. We just use the fastest solve direction, but I always end up going right for 3s just to keep it simple.

FFS, BH is not a class. PT's have an interrupt every 8 secs, talented down to 6 (but most builds do not go for the CD reduction). Mercs do not. This game has been out for how many months and still we have people using BH as a class? Just look at this thread, this very thread, and see that on several occasions people are talking about different advanced classes entirely. And if you're not stomping almost everything as a PT then you're bad. The only classes I have trouble with are healers and the occasional Marauder. I wouldn't even have trouble with healers if I was full PT, but I'm CP (hybrid).

This. Does decent damage with CGC, and has enough tanking abilities for hardmode ops.

Heat is very easy to manage after a couple of hours. With Pyro it's a bit more rng, but nothing that should ever make a good player feel desperate.

And more/better ranged abilities.

That is a bad tank, then, but should only affect threat generation. Some aoe pulls will be tough as BH until you learn to manage heat well.

The full root not being on resolve is ridiculous.

Cosign this. Almost every WZ I'll head in to attack a player and they open with a stun. It's stupid and almost always the result of a bad player, but now BW has given bad players a more annoying way to play. They're almost part of a rotation.

Time!

Everyone has purge! And I say that as a tank spec with a spammable (25 heat, but doable) 18 second dot.

At the very least the mark should clear on death. Don't compare it to vent coordination. Beyond the fact that one is controllable and the other not, using vent to coordinate should give you an advantage. Plus one makes it that much easier to target. Calling a name in vent means you still have to find the player and select, or use assist on someone targeting the target.

^ certainly Oil Slick and Kolto Overload should be on CD pretty much all the time.

I hate this generalization because it's not true. Tanking's not that hard. The hardest thing about it is that you have to pay more attention on trash. Less Hulu, more pew pew. If you're really pushing content, then dps is just as hard as any other role.

Heat is more difficult to manage than force for my shadow. That being said, neither is particularly hard. The biggest problem with shadow is the UI and watching tiny icons that are not separated from everything else.

Good posts, but I strongly recommend using Energy Shield when you know large attacks are coming in. Mitigation CDs should be used proactively when you know big damage is coming to get the maximum benefit.

Unload is fine for hitting mobs/players 30 yards away, and it cc's regular mobs for the duration. Missile Blast is useless. The rest have use at some point.

And IGC from RP in ST gives a DOT for RS. All trees have a reliable dot that lasts longer than the CD on the ability. ST might have to wait until RP reset, though.

I love catching these people. I was in quest greens, new 50, topped damage, guard, and objectives and beat several battle masters so bad they actively avoided me.

The fact that people take bugs and equate them to a conspiracy is hilarious and sad.

Of course you did, because you are awesome!

The above spec is correct, as is most of the advice. However, you should not get above 40 heat almost ever. That's just basic BH mechanics. If you get to 75 you better have Vent Heat ready. For AOE packs, a DFA following by charge, carbonize, FT (should be able to hit them all for at least a tick or two), Oil Slick, Flame Sweep and start tabbing.

OP complaining about everyone having Inquisitors is an Inquisitor and played the mirror class as his main? I just want to be sure I have that right.