I'd be happy with getting my fem smuggler voiced by Liz Sroka, Eve Myles, or Jo Wyatt. The current voice is a little... grating, at times.

Can you hear me now? *pewpew!* GOOD!

Hmm, Gunslinger with a BFG... wait, TWO BFG's since they dual wield!

Been doing pretty good as Shieldtech with Mako.

That's basically what I plan to use, except I'm looking at 3/3 Integrated Cardio Package instead of Iron Fist and Prototype Cylinders.

Sounds like a glitch. Sometimes targets display in one place when they're actually somewhere else.

If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate?

Funny part is I don't play a merc, I play a PT.

Just to expand on this: NPC's can use gap closers (charge/grapple) on PC's in cover. The reverse is not true. So apparently the way cover is coded currently is that players can't use gap closers on targets in cover, not that targets in cover are immune to gap closers (a subtle but important distinction). Either allow us to charge/grapple mobs in cover, or make it so mobs can't charge/grapple us if we're in cover.

And companions are cooldown-limited since they don't have an actual resource, so it needs to do something more than just straight damage. Besides, we can reduce ALL damage dealt by anyone hit by Flame Burst/Sweep, instead of just increasing our armor (which only works on kinetic and energy damage). While Heat Blast is a tad underwhelming, a damaging ability that ignores armor and REDUCES heat is still not that shabby.

Allowing for damage differences from level and gear scaling, that's pretty much what it does.

For all that, he's still just a hired gun. If your primary loyalty is to a paycheck, there are people out there who aren't going to be terribly impressed with you no matter what you've done. Did anyone else hear Rodney Dangerfield's voice when they read the thread title?

I can't help but think you're trolling or you haven't actually looked at the class's abilities and talents. Or both. I got your crowd control right here. Also, TM combos nicely with Rail Shot, Unload, and Heatseeker Missiles.

How can it dissipate when it isn't there? MADNESS!

Chewbacca doesn't live on Endor.

Idunno, just seems like you'd be better off using Flame Sweep for filler (heat permitting) and RP/RS for single-target aggro in an AoE situation (assuming 31 shieldtech). I tend to mostly just use Flame Burst/Sweep to apply/maintain the Combust debuff, though, unless my heat's really low and I've got nothing better to do with my GCD.

My only issue with it is sometimes she decides to taze the guy I'm on instead of one of the loose mobs. On the plus side, it does at least set me up for Shoulder Slam if I notice before it breaks. And watching her try to cc HK-47 was kinda funny.

I think part of the issue is Mako doesn't have a spammable heal (she doesn't really have a spammable anything, but you don't generally bring her for her DPS). Odds are she's pew-pewing because that's all she has available. Just taking a guess since I don't generally keep my expanded companion bar up, so I'm not watching her ability use (except to grump about the fact that she electroshocks targets that are taking or are about to take damage, i.e. what I'm hitting or what I've thrown a dart at).

Just curious, assuming you're in an AoE situation (and have thus used Flame Sweep already), why would you use Flame Burst?

Are they a matched pair?

Is your wife a tank?

Dunno if you've noticed this (or care), but the only classes that have an AC that uses a different weapon type are the ones that don't have a dual-wield AC.

It's description says energy damage, which means armor mitigation comes into play. That's probably at least part of it.

Just curious, on that fight is it worthwhile to do a tank rotation (i.e., you get the debuff, another tank taunts off you and takes over until your debuff falls off), or does the debuff stay up too long to make it workable?

Wait, how do you have Vette as a sorc?