Yup. I knew about that. Had that on my Focus build. Being as I haven't played much Combat, and was WAY to eager to play. I rushed built my talents. But I just got off work early and time to theory craft baby!

Actually. Having thought about it. I'm going to be taking away the 2 points Away from Stagger and put them into Valor. Also, does anybody know for sure if Force Sweep is considered an AOE effect? Does Defensive Roll mitigate that DMG?

http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#5010cZGGdRRrrdGzZM.1 This is my current build. Specifically focus's on Combat's great strength's. Speccing into Master Focus makes Master Strike hit like a bus load of ninja's. Dibilitation keep's them locked down without getting away. Though knock-back's interrupt the advertised "non-interruptable" master strike. This Combat spec is designed for high level gear. It's provides massive front load single Target DPS keeping the heat on the healer's. Predation is a God Send in WZ's. Ranked WZ's will require at least 1 Combat Specced Sentinel just for the 80% run speed alone. It's too good. I easily keep up with Focus specced Sentinel's for DMG, and they are hitting MULTPLE targets, while Combat is a Single Target burst. Leap --> Precision --> Zealous --> Master Strike to a quick Bladestorm is my bread and butter for taking down targets fast. Or you could throw in a Blade Rush before MS and end with that Blade Storm. Dispatch is now 30% and getting a target down quickly is what Combat is about. Like I said before I another thread. This is my new home.

You haven't even gotten to Merc Slash. You aren't experienced enough in PVP or even PVE for that matter to have any sort of bragging right's. I'm sorry but go into a pre-made warzone and watch your macro fall to pieces. ANY good Sentinel has played his class enough to actively know when his abilities are ready. I never ever look at my bar unless my ability does activate, which is rare. My perifs are more than enough to know when my cooldowns are up. Not to mention common knowledge on how things should flow and a rough idea of how much focus you have. Stop bragging, you're fooling no one here. You aren't at a high level of play and I congratulate you on making your low level PVE experience more enjoyable. Have a good day

Jedi Sentinel Here. Valor 75. Over 30 hours played on my guy. Pre 1.2, Watchman and Focus reigned supreme by far. I would destroy any Combat spec that came accross me. But now the game has changed. Combat's front load DMG is MASSIVE. Bar-non the best single target DPS. Leap --> Precision Slash --> Zealous --> Masterstrike --> Follow by a quick Blade storm and watch people's heath go from 15k-3k just in time for my dispatch. I'm out DPS'ing Rage/Focus and Annhilate/Watchman Sentinels. And this is ONLY with SINGLE target damage. It's really a hectic spec to play. Going untouched is an absolute nightmare in Combat. Master strike's dmg is going to be nerfed. It can hit anywhere from 6k-9k. Always followed up with a Blade Storm. The mobility with this spec is bar non! Now that Transcendence Actives the entire WZ group. Denova and Alderaan are easy caps. Everybody loves you and wants you on their team. Heal's can't get away from my Displacement or my Master Strike root. I was a hardcore Watchman/Focus specc'ed Sentinel. Combat is my new home. TL;DR - You need to have the gear to really make Combat Shine. Otherwise it's lackluster dmg and geared healer's will be able to survive and get away from you. Get this spec and take a week to learn it. You'll be suprised how beast mode. Literally BEAST MODE this spec is.

SAME HERE! Sentinel. I can barely break 5k! I've done it only once. And that is once I've popped everything. My surge has been nerged to 66%. Im just not sure if I should take the expertise hit as I drop way faster now. So squishy.. Must try other specs.

The Rage tree is a lot easier to learn and you'll have less of a hassle playing it. Annihilation takes a bit of time to micro manage your CD's and you have to be on top of your game to press em. Also an elusive play style with healer harassment is the best way to play Watchman/Annihilation IMO

I just posted this in another thread: I have put hours into my sentinel. Swapping mods/adrenals/relics etc. Theory crafted and whatnot. My heart was deadset on Watchman/Annhilation. I put hours into it, I was a healers nightmare. 6s kicks, 0m force leaps.. etc. My Merciless Slash/Annihilate would crit easily for 4k (rarely hit 5k unless I had my consumables ready to go. I was living the dream. So up until a week ago I switched to Focus/Rage. With all my battlemaster gear, Surge to 75%. and my Power relics/Power Adrenals. I was bursting full Battlemaster's for over 5K. I can produce so much dmg against a healer, that enemies pull off to kill me. All while eating my crits. I could easily get 300k dmg playing the objective and focusing on the healer. I will tell you right now that my sole objective, is to make a healer's life a living nightmare. Rage is just too good and trumps Annhilation IMO. And I played for months as Annilation. I'm always at the top of the Republic boards, and I'm always.. as best I can.. playing the objective in any gametype. Smart Rage vs Smart Anni.. I'd say Rage will win. As said above.. take it for what you will. It's the player behind the M/K that will make their spec shine better than others. There is no "I win spec". It's all about you and you avatar.

I have put hours into my sentinel. Swapping mods/adrenals/relics etc. Theory crafted and whatnot. My heart was deadset on Watchman/Annhilation. I put hours into it, I was a healers nightmare. 6s kicks, 0m force leaps.. etc. My Merciless Slash/Annihilate would crit easily for 4k (rarely hit 5k unless I had my consumables ready to go. I was living the dream. So up until a week ago I switched to Focus/Rage. With all my battlemaster gear, Surge to 75%. and my Power relics/Power Adrenals. I was bursting full Battlemaster's for over 5K. I can produce so much dmg against a healer, that enemies pull off to kill me. All while eating my crits. I could easily get 300k dmg playing the objective and focusing on the healer. I will tell you right now that my sole objective, is to make a healer's life a living nightmare. Rage is just too good and trumps Annhilation IMO. And I played for months as Annilation. I'm always at the top of the Republic boards, and I'm always.. as best I can.. playing the objective in any gametype. Smart Rage vs Smart Anni.. I'd say Rage will win. As said above.. take it for what you will. It's the player behind the M/K that will make their spec shine better than others. There is no "I win spec". It's all about you and you avatar.

For somebody like me, who invest's time into Warzones, daily PVP on Ilum. I consider BM title something of worth. As I am currently level 57, steady job, steady girlfriend.. and my time really is only spent pvp'ing. Sure it might be worthless to you when you look at it, but do I give a crap about that? I know I got it legit and I know I've accomplished a level of PVP in which I would not be afraid to enter any scenario or situation. I'm not going to say I'm the best Jedi Sentinel around. But I'm a pretty damn good one.

Are you serious? That's a terrible rotation. You do understand that Merciless restarts Cauterizes global cooldown right? Leap (IN MID AIR you hit OVERload SABER, instant attack), strike, cauterize, zealous, merciless, cauterize, pacify, then whateverelse, but jump back into the rotation. Throw snares into the mix as well. I find that Watchmen isn't as mobile as my Combat and Focus specs were. Keeping a target in range is important. I never get under 200k in a WZ.

Exactly

Terribly disappointed on how these changes benefited the faction with more people on their side. Obviously this couldn't of slipped by this easily without anyone thinking "Hey, if they zerg 1 faction, the other faction is ****ed". I live a life. Girlfriend, house, car, job, friends, etc. I've played this game a lot more than I should of lately. I finally reached Valor 50 today. Only to be shat on when some scrub lowbie ranked gets to Battlemaster and now progressed a lot faster to endgame pvp gear than I have. I'm full champ (besides my mainhand). I have over 112 cent tokens. RNG is slowly destroying my will to play. But since I'm on the same playing field as everyone else I can manage. But this is honestly strike 2 for me. First one being no true high quality graphics. 1 more and you can bet I'll be cancelling my subscription.

Please, voice your opinions via twitter and facebook like I have! check thier posts. Please like my post under name "Robert Stallard". I feel so sad.

Excuse me??? I can play current gen games at max settings at 60+ FPS (battlefield 3 for example). on 64/64 128 player server... and you're telling me this games graphics compare to a current gen game? I'm sorry.. what planet are you on? Theres never 120+ in repub fleet at one time. This is basically a SCREW YOU in the face to customers. So pissed.

I understand the statement about, "The graphics don't make the game". But this is freaking 2012!! The graphics on charcters from Lineage II look even better! More detailed etc! Why are we being scaled back on a current generation MMO with Quad Core processsors and massive GPUS??? I'm so freaking mad over this. I never ever once thought I would quit this game, but this is absolute rubbish!

I for one am shocked. Was busting my *** to build a beast machine (which I did for recording/editing purposes) and high graphical gameplay. I cannot believe they are using the excuse "for better performace" crap. This game is not properly coded well, it's not optimized for anything! There are a number of bugs and the Hero engine was never my favorite! I cannot believe they can just downgrade us while advertising everything looking so epic. I love this game, I can't stop playing it. I feel gosh darn betrayed though. Why would you do this to your fans? Thanks for the game but damn.. did you have to half *** it at the end like that? Too busy counting your game sales revenue?

Wow. Just wow. This post blew me away. The PVP aspect of this game is that a semi-geared Jug annhilates people. Throwing off 5-7k crits. That's 50%-70% on most people. Also with their ability to Force Choke all while rotating through abilities and force push NOW with an instant leap goes unmatched. The Jedi Sentinel need's at least 1 CC! Give us force push. Or an Aoe Pushback and you will see the QQ's stop. Easily one of the most overlooked AC's.

I'm force spec. But I CONSTANTLY spam Transcendence! 10% Def to your entire group and 50% run speed is OP. Spec into Defensive forms and you can literally pop this every 10s-20s. Give's everyone else the edge around you. Love Transcendence. I need to try Watchmen spec soon. With a pug healer I'll average around 300-400k dmg. With a pocket healer I can break 500k. If we are still ******** the bed I'll still break over 200k dmg. But I'm not a dmg whore. I will always go after the objective and the healers.

While I don't feel this is a totally game breaking issue. I can see how WoW vet's would be annoyed by this. There is a problem here and I'm not sure if it was intended. The only reason I'm not freaking is that it's happening to everyone. And everyone is on the same field. That being said that doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed or re-worked. This def needs to be brought up to the dev's and have some sort of dev response from this.

Yup, some of our hardest hitting skills do not work in PVP. Same goes for opportune strike.

try 10,000 credits per 1 gold

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This post has so many wrongful points. So you're saying 1v1 Watchman is viable in pvp? When at anytime are you going to be 1v1'ing? If you are, you're doing it wrong. Burst dmg will always be #1. Not freaking Damage over time. Hah.