I'm giving up on my Sniper. A blast to play before 55, Sniper has been nothing but suck at 55. Full Oberon now and still only puts out mediocre damage with almost no survivability. I've tried Lethality, but have always favored MM. Not sure exactly what is wrong. I suppose it could be me that somehow broke at 55, since my Sniper dominated before 55, but it sure feels like the class is broken. Regardless, Sniper is now just frustrating to play, and doesn't come close to comparing with any of my other 55s in PVP. My Guardian and Vanguard tanks in only half Conqueror gear do about the same if not more damage, with obviously more survivability, and can also guard/taunt to help the team. My two 55 DPS - Arsenal Merc and Shadow - do far more damage than my Sniper with worse gear. Sad to say, but I've been trying to find ways to make Sniper competitive at 55 and just haven't found it. So, finally giving up and retiring. Maybe one day, I'll come out of retirement and try the endgame PVE to see if that is any better. Good luck to all you other Snipers.

OK, looking for some advice on what I'm doing wrong. Right now, I absolutely HATE playing my Sniper. It was such a fun class to play leveling up, but at 55, the PVP completely sucks. I'm literally last in medals almost every single warzone. I've read the guides; I've got the rotations/skills down and have full Conqueror with 4 Oberon pieces with some pieces augmented but yet I somehow still suck at everything. Is it me? Or do Snipers just suck right now? I felt like I dominated on my Sniper in the lowbie Warzones while leveling, but 55 is light night and day. No other class plays like this for me at 55. I can play my Arsenal Merc, also 55, also rDPS with only 3 pieces of Conquerer and get better warzone results. I've played MM all the way to 55 and thought maybe that was the problem at 55. But I tried Lethality and got similar results - slightly higher damage totals, but still last in the warzone. So, as it is, I actually dread logging in on my Sniper and would rather go play any other character. But I loved my Sniper so much, I hate to completely abandon it. Any suggestions? Other than stop playing PVP?

So, you can't Reverse Engineer the level 54 Crafted Orange Armor. Is this by design? Or a programming oversight? I remember there being an issue a long time ago on crafted orange gear not able to be RE'd, but I thought they fixed that. So, just wondering if I should keep all these orange items hoping they will fix this one day, or should I just vendor them?

Update: I did get a response from in-game Customer Service. They investigated, and evidently for Level 54 gear, critical success gives a *random* Augment slot - MK7, MK8 or MK9. That seems crazy, but would explain why I got MK-7s on the only two critical successes I've had, while other folks have gotten MK-9s. This seems like a terrible system with only a percentage chance to get a critical, then only a percentage chance to get a MK-9. Assuming there was an even chance for MK-7, MK-8 and MK-9, that drops the probability of getting a MK-9 augment to something like 7% (20% Critical * 33% MK-9). AND, given that you still can't RE the orange crafted stuff, I think I'll just pass on trying to make augmented Level 54 gear. It's just not worth it - easier, faster and cheaper to just make Level 54 green gear, RE it for augment parts and make the MK-9 augment kits myself.

I've seen this a few times recently. I figured it was just something weird like I got rooted the same time I hit Covered Escape or something. But if others are seeing it this much, maybe there is a bug with the skill.

Sorry for the confusion. I was crafting the level 54 Armormech armor pieces - Orange Chest, Gloves, etc. Given that these are the highest level armor pieces that I was aware that I could make, I was expecting critical success to give MK-9 augment slots on the Orange armor. But they are MK-7 augment slots. This seems rather lame, but I suppose I can see the reasoning given Arkanian and Underworld. Although, who in their right mind would RE one of these pieces for an orange shell schematic?

I wasn't aware that you could craft L55 Arcanian and Underworld chest, legs, etc. I'll have to do more research and figure out how this is possible.

So, getting a critical success on Level 54 gear [update: Orange Synth/Armormech Armor shells], only gives a MK-7 augment slot? Is this by design, that a critical success on crafting the highest level gear only augments it with one 2 tiers below the max? Why even crit this gear? You will have to replace it with a MK-8 or MK-9 augment kit anyway. This seems to be a terrible design decision.

Apologies for necro'ing this thread, but I ran into this issue and this was the only thread I could find. Is this a bug? Or by design? The Level 54 orange crafted items are greyed out and I get the error, "That item cannot be Reverse Engineered". If this is by design, what is the logic behind this when we can reverse engineer other crafted items?

I know it went on the PTS in mid-August and I thought I had read somewhere it would go live in October. Is this still the plan? The reason I ask is that I've been holding off on buying any more PVP gear and holding onto comms. Since Partisan is being retired and Conquerer will be the new entry gear with a new set above that, t seems silly to waste comms on the current gear. But that also depends on when we are getting 2.4...

Have they announced when the next Bounty Hunter week will be?

I like to see the PVP Queue tool changed to something more like the LFG tool. You can check/uncheck specific maps, but you would only get credit towards completing the PVP Daily and Weekly quests if you had all WZ maps checked. But when you queued for a random warzone, you have the option to select (or deselect) specific warzones and still queue up for those.

Yep! I think I've bought every reusable medpack off the GTN instead of making it myself. When I get to the next level, I buy the next one and put the old back up on the GTN. Rarely do I have to put my old one up a second time before it sells. System works great for me and I can focus on implants and stims instead of REing medpacks.

Gotta say, I was pretty excited about 2.0. I guess I made the mistake of trying PVP on my 31 Powertech first. What a freaking disaster. So disgusted, I just had to quit. Can't even bring myself to check out any other characters or content at this point. Unfortunately my sub just renewed and I already bought the expansion. I'm going to give it a day or two before I cancel my sub...for the second time due to PVP. But at this point, don't see much hope in continuing to play.

Hey, ParagonAX, would it be possible to get the final few (or even just THE final) duel scheduled ahead of time and posted in this thread (date/time)? I think it would be fun for anyone who wanted to gather to watch and honor the final competitors as they duel it out in Outlaw's Den. Just a thought...