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From what I see Pommel Strike definitely will not work with Force Choke. I did some tests and ran my combat logs through Torparse.com. On the status bar: After you use Smash you will see Pommel Strike light up as useable. Use it and you get the damage. When you use Force Choke you will see Pommel Strike gradually light up like its on a cooldown. About halfway through using Force Choke you will see that Pommel Strike is fully lit up as useable. But if you use it it does no damage and breaks the rest of the Force Choke. In the parsed combat logs: When you use Smash you will see it at a stun to the target before the damage starts. Then you will see that stun drop BEFORE Pommel Strike does it's damage. With Force Choke you see the same thing. It adds a stun to the target before the damage starts. But this time when the stun drops Pommel Strike does not activate. I hope I explained that correctly.

I see the animation glitches but Force Choke is def in my rotation. Love the range. My only issue is not being able to end it off with a Pommel Strike.

New Mara here. I just got Pommel Strike and have been learning how and when to use it. I've been using it in PvE directly after Smash on weaker targets. I see it light up when I use Force Choke but I am not sure I have ever used Pommel Strike successfully after it finishes. Will have to experiment more.

Oh yeah! I just like finding those so I don't care if its cunning or aim or fluff. I'll eat any flavor datacron!

One of the reasons I started looking into this was seeing that Strength helps BOTH Melee Damage/Crits AND Force Damage/Crits while Willpower only helps Force Damage/Crits. Looking at the Force tab on the character I can't see anywhere else Willpower helps. So Willpower is just a back-up stat to Strength that is only half as beneficial. Meaning our class can use Willpower buffs but should go for Strength buffs whenever possible.

Both helpful replies. Thanks!

I was looking over the abilities for the Marauder can see that some do weapon damage while others do kinetic damage. Is there information on which abilities use Melee Damage/Criticals and/or Force Damage/Criticals? If an ability says "weapon damage" do we take that to mean "melee damage" and if it says "kinetic damage" take it to mean "force damage"? Does kinetic = force and weapon = melee? Also... An ability like "Force Charge" says it strikes with the main hand weapon. The title uses the word "force" but presumably does "melee damage". Or are both invovled? Smash says it does "kinetic damage" while the title of the ability does not use the word "force". <---- Darth Confused

Been using the TD-17A Imperator body, legging, and bracer armor since early on. I like how its scuffed and dented instead of shiny and perfect.