In PvP, you'll need neither of them. It's all about BioChem, while Cybertech is kind of valid too. 5k reuseable medpacks (instant 2 medals in warzones) and a wide variety of reuseable stims is hilariously strong.

While I agree that it's sad we're not having a thread reduction besides Force Cloak, aggro management has never been a problem so far. I think 1 force per Sabre Strike is quite nice as a little help for the time, blackout is not up. I'm not that much into PvE, but more Force is always a good thing, isn't it?!

All you wrote is true and well known, but you have to consider that Force Potency is guaranteed crit damage (mostly coupled with the crit/surge relic, my crit rating about 100% at 89% Critdamage Modifier) while Battle Readiness only provide a certain chance (let's take 40%). So 40% per attack for 15s seems very good, but while you can almost always use all 3 stacks of FP, 15s of constant attacking a target in PvP is quite rare imho. It's a game of chances...maybe, Project and Breach would have crited anyways. Then the additional damage of Force Potency is zero and BR is far superior. Maybe, you pop BR and you get rooted/slowed for the majority of the duration. You're definitely right, I should rephrase my statement to: Force Potency is a more reliable cooldown and the guaranteed burst it provides fits my playstyle way better than the DPS BR provides.

Since Combat Stance grants you a lot of benefits and allows you to guard, I'd go with Combat Stance. Benefits would be: Rapid Recovery Particle Acceleration Impact Control Force Break Pretty heavy arguments i think.

I've seen this statement a few times now and i was wondering: Why would you do normal mode FPs when you're interested in PvP. The drops from normal mode FPs I've seen are way weaker than Centurion/Champion Gear, even for PvE.

But your opponent can He sees to animation of Project and pops Resilience or some other damage migration/nullify ability. This btw happens to Sages all the time with Force Wave. You'll see Force Wave Animation and you can pop your cast immunity before getting knockbacked.

Damage done to your teammates that was MIGRATED by your taunt abilities count as protection. Tested and proven ^^

Here is the knowledge you're searching: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=458

Yes, happens quite frequently. The Stone stays in the air for a few seconds, then it disappears.

As already stated, we have a great burst combo. 2x Clairvoyant Strike Force Potency + Surge+Crit Relic (+ Potion if you're rich or biochem) Project Force Breach Especially with uphevel, nontank targets are now ready for spinning strike. Otherwise, now it's a good time to check for the Find Weakness proc to use a nice shadow strike. Might want so low slash to get behind the target. If Find Weakness is not up, Clairvoyant Strike again If you switch relics (AP as 2nd) and you have the 4 piece pvp bonus, you're able to execute this rotation every 75s. It's so simple and yet..so beautiful .)

Wrong. Taunt affect Protection points and generally generates 3-4 extra medals for me.

While leveling, I did my whole story questline with Qyzen and he never failed me. Now at 50, Tharan is way better.

I usually hate posting screenshots but fear not, fellow shadows. 200k is possible. http://oi42.tinypic.com/3094pba.jpg

Battle Readiness lasts 15s and shadow technique proc can only occur once every 1.5s. 25% chance to proc. 1.5s gcd on abilities that could proc the technique. I'm no pro at math but I can't think of a world where battle readiness provides more damage than Force Potency.

What level? What companion? General suggestions: Use Qyzen as a companion, try aggro pingpong with your taunt ability and use Deflection when you have aggro, use the "heals you and your companion thing" when you both are aboth 50%. Get gear for Qyzen, he's greatly benefiting from it.

Combat Technique as Balance Shadow is legit. As all medal farmers in warzones surly agree, guarding is a beautiful way to get some extra medals...

I know this topic was discussed a few times in the past and some people really like SV. So it's surely not wrong to take it and living a few seconds longer perhaps can make the difference. I took (like most others) the 2% damage reduce in Balance to get uphevel but tbh - I don't feel more ... tanky (is that a word ^^) than before. Maybe together with SV, you might feel a difference. Try it out and if you like it, stick to it.

It's amazing people have time to analyze visuals that much. I'm so busy checking my buffbar, my opponents movements and castbar, warzone objectives and grouphealth - I'd be satisfied with stick figures i think ^^

In fact, you'll most likely wear a white one, since battlemaster chest is white.

In general, I like being very good at one thing while completely sacrificing something else. For example, I'd prefer going mass crit instead of 50% crit / 50% power. In terms of my skilltree, I tried to go all out offense, rather than trying to do 80% offense/ 20% defense or something like that. I see infiltration shine the most while bursting down targets, so my primary goal is to take all talents that allow me to burst down targets most efficiently. I did that knowing that I'm gonna have a healer and a guard tank by my side most of the time, but as it turned out, this approach made me quite lethal even in 1on1 situations.

It's not underrated at all. I think it's very good. But I simply think the other options are better. What are you gonna sacrifice for it?

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I always felt like it's way better when your companion looks exactly the same. Might be harder for some imps to tell who's who in the middle of an intense fight.

Stats bolster is far weaker than real lvl50 gear and abilities. If you're satisfied at lower levels, you'll love it at 50 with champion gear. Witness the beauty of a solid shadow rotation, enhanced by Relic + Force Potency...tears of joy