Thanks for the replies everyone. I'll work on it

I recently got a Razer BlackWidow keyboard for my gaming obsession but I cannot seem to bind the 5 extra side keys. Do I need to DL something to make these work or does the game just not support them? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated thank you.

I believe the reduction is dropping the Sheild proc from using TM from 2% per stack to 1% per stack which means we will only have 5% damage reduction at full stacks instead of 10%. This affects our survivability not out damage.

Honestly you could probably heal ok for heroics and flashpoints up to 30ish unspecced. If your sure you want to go hybrid though it will be a bit slower leveling experience but powers OT will be your main attack. If you don't mind the splash damage ( no cc targets) then explosive dart is nice DPS for the heat cost. Unload and rail shot when available and use missile blast to set up rails OT on a standard or for an on the move ability the cost though is a bit high to weave it into a rotation. My typical fight against a strong looks like this: open with explosive dart, powershot , unload , rapid fire to cut heat, powershot and rapid fire until unload is off cooldown or railshot procs. Replace powershot with tracer missiles if you go arsenal plus that will proc railshot. Sorry for the poor grammar,typos. I'm on an iPhone

Well really it comes down to preference. I was intrigued by the though of toting around a BFG everywhere I went before I got the opportunity to test the game. After I played for a while in beta I realized I hated being treated like a grunt and tqkig orders from seemingly everyone. The bounty hunter offered me two things that made MY gaming experience more enjoyable. One was the whole working for myself style of story. The other was that my offhand gun although it doesn't add much in terms of damage; the fact that it's modable ment I could adjust my stats more freely over having a power generator with set stats. The effects are minor if not non existent but seemed to make more sense to me. The main thin I enjoyed though was the BH story over the trooper one (granted I never got past act one on the trooper. Just my .02 credits on the subject. Please forgive ant typos or grammar issues. This was typed on an iPhone.

Just my .02 credits here but I believe IGN's reference to BH nerfs were just a brief and possibly misunderstood way of pointing out what was said later in the same paragraph. "Every class is going to undergo changes." I'm willing to bet that would mean some nerfs and some buffs, possibly the removal and addition of some skills. In any game trying to be balanced around both PvE and PvP, changes should be expected somewhat frequently. In my own thoughts (Arsonal Merc here) if they wanted to give TM a 3 sec CD or mix the buffs/debuffs to other skills and give us a solid interrupt I personally would be happy. However you choose to look at it, the changes are coming and we will have to deal regardless of whether we like it or not.... That or reroll/respec. I think we'll be fine honestly. The good BH's will find a way to make the changes work for them and still enjoy the class. Please forgive typos or spelling errors as this was written on an iPhone.

If you dont mind minor story spoilers read below.

Played the two classes I was most interested in on the 11-11-11 beta. Sniper won me over hands down and I've been loving it ever since.