I don't even know what your trying to say. 1v1 we're extremely strong against more than half the specs in this game, and we're capable against the rest. We're also a wrecking ball w/ a healer behind us, w/ maybe the Marauder being the only other class that outshines us. The difference is we can use taunts to protect our healer.

You have stealth, you can pick your own fights. I get my assassination medal every match Without even consciencely trying for it. Tanks are tough without cooldowns, and you can forget it if they outgear you. Ops/scoundrels (melee dps) are tough if you don't have a trinket up and they get the opener. Good Marauders/sents are extremely hard if they have all their defensive cooldowns. Everything else is pretty easy as long as your starting the fight on your terms (ie not at max range). And force speed + shroud + cloak makes it extremely easy to get away or break LoS.

The nice thing about Xalek is that you can buy expensive gear for him and not feel bad, since it doubles as off spec tanking gear for you. He's like a portable gear bank.

I rarely ever see people mention our ability to taunt and mitigate tons of damage over the course of a warzone while using pure damage specs. Unlike the healer DPS, us taunting does not take us out of the flow of the battle. Having taunts is a huge boon for Assassins, and to me using them is the biggest difference between an average and good assassin.

Shoulda picked Trooper if you wanted a grown up storyline. Smuggler is suppose to be goofy and fun.

Bioware has never made good engines themselves, and making an engine takes years. They also weren't owned by EA when they started development on TOR

If you don't have your professions leveled up too far you can drop one and take diplomacy and do the dark side missions. Obviously you shouldn't have to, but it's a way to get over the hump if it's important to you.

They call them tanks for a reason

It's unbelievable that people don't realize brackets result in the exact same scenario. Feel free to look at any other MMOs level bracketed PvP and you'll see the end result is no different.

At the very worst, both will die at the same time instead of the shadow winning.

You might want to buy a clue before you go making posts like this.

Probably a Maul crit while under the effects of a red buff and a crit/surge relic. I've personally never broke 4k

If your the type of person that would try to sue for getting kicked out of a video game guild, there is a good chance your autism had nothing to do with it.

If its replaceable it's craptasttic

I disagree w/ everyone single one of your ideas. That's a pretty impressive feat. Tumult serves a very distinct function. It's fine. You use it to insta-gib weak mobs or as a DPS supplement for strong mobs. Other classes have similar skills. Maul is rewarding the way it is. It does not need to be dumbed down and weakened. I pretty much never have any trouble landing a Maul before it's timer is up, unless someone is kiting away from me... and then I shouldn't be able to land it. If necessary, use Low Slash or another immobilize. Thrash is a craptastic basic attack thats suppose to have a craptastic animation. If you want to talk about improving Voltaic, then sure.

Interrupt the Lightning AoE and/or kite. Took me three tries on my 32 assassin Pull Khem back if she does get a Lightning AoE off. Taunt off him if he starts getting low, put him in DPS stance, and start kiting.

Sounds like you need to demand a change then. Your country has a crap system

No... Just no. Your are displaying a gross fundamental misunderstanding of how the class works. Damage and mitigation (via cc) for the scrapper fall off significantly outside of the opener. Operatives/scoundrels are front loaded. If that fight goes on for even a few more seconds, the tides turn drastically.

Assassins do not have a charge. Assassins are, however, a good class. And are better designed for Huttball than Concealment Operatives.

Goodbye?

Assassins are fully capable of kiting.

Healers heal too much at high level. If you don't like that answer, too damn bad.

I've yet to figure out what Powertech does worse than Assassin/Juggernaut... they seem to have the best of all worlds. They even have both a charge and a pull, and start w/ a healer companion.

Seems like an engine limitation. I'm not sure if they will be able to fix it. It's unfortunate, because the ability delay is a really huge issue when it comes to making the game feel and play smooth, which is arguably the most important aspect of an MMO.

They do have an AoE though. Plus, they are a tank, they already counter Operatives/Assassins.