Thanks for the reply despite my deleted request. I've found a new home in the Vengeance spec, my first love being tanking, but I have my PT for that. My specific question was more along the lines of..."holy crap when I hit 50 what do I do? what gear should I be using and how to do I get it?" I normally maintain a metric crap ton of alts and basically level each as my mood fairs, but I truly have been enjoying my Jugg and would like focus on getting him to 55 and decently geared. I figured I would continue to PVP and FP with some intermittent questing to get to 50, but I'm guessing that point there has to be a well-traveled path of "how to gear" and what to grind. Dulfy's guide touches on it, but any additional resources would be awesome.

Found a guide on Dulfy, nvm, thanks all!

Spent the weekend as Vengeance and never looked back. Burned through the 20's and hit 32 last night. Life is much easier after getting Impale, Vette and I just tear through PVE. I agree that Rage or Immortal would probably be easier until the 20's, but I am still impressed with the DPS in PVE and PVP. I know it's been stated and restated, but I cannot help but smile each time I watch someone in PVP blow their Flashbang, AOE KB, or stun of choice as my Ravage chews them up. For any doubters, it's worth visiting this spec at least for leveling and low level PVP, I won't speak of end game until I get there.

Sweet, thanks for the info. I figured I'd set aside any tanky gear that I get from drops for this very purpose. Looks like a respec is in order tonight and I can start bathing in my spare rage....

Well I'm definitely a role player in that I want to make sure I'm not gimping the group in any way, so as long as I am feeling tanky, I'm sure I'll be fine. Really appreciate the advice everyone.

I'd probably switch specs for FP, unless I'm overleveled for the instance. Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for the quick reply, that's what I needed. If the attack rotation isn't changing that much anyway I may as well try Vengeance, plus I just got Doc and having some rage would be nice.... I guess I felt like in solo PVP I get stranded if unless our healer is paying attention and in PVE planet/class questing I rarely, if ever pop my defensive CDs. Thanks for the heads up on gearing as well, I will have to educate myself on all that in about 25 levels...

I am looking for a sanity check, I have leveled a Guardian as Defense at launch and recently returned to SWTOR. I opted to roll a Jugg and out of habit began leveling as Immortal as old habits die hard. I'm very interested in the Vengeance spec, but I'm only level 24 at this point and although I run planet mishes, I primarily PVP and do FP. I also normally run solo, so no pocket healer in PVP unless I happen to stumble into one. All that being said... 1. Vengeance appears as though it relies on a few key abilities (Impale and Shatter), which I won't have for quite a while, does that matter? Should I wait until at least early 30s when I'll have Savagery and Eviscerate? 2. Is it viable to be DPS geared and simply respec into Immortal for FP while below 50-55? I realize it isn't ideal for the healer, but as an Immortal spec, I hardly make the healer work at all right now. Thanks in advance for the feedback.