Calvin_Mago
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Right now theres nothing a madness sin can do that a lethality operative can't do better. Corrosive grenade (aoe dot!) has no cooldown anymore, and corrosive dart never did. Dots do internal damage. Roll makes the operative quicker in getting in and out of combat, and even to places on the map.
Flashbang is still instant while madness lost insta whirlwind. Energy management is stupidly easy now for the operative. And the operative can do a crazy burst with backstab- shiv - cull - cull - cull, or even hidden strike + the above and 4 culls.
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@Xethis I gave your spec a shot and ran out of force unbelievably quickly. I'm used to running heavy force consumption specs, but I wouldn't be too comfortable running this in a WZ. Maybe the promised darkness tweak will help in this regard, but looks like I'm going to stick with WJ 2.0.
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@Plaje Just curious, what was your biggest shock damage on your crackling energize parse?
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Yeah they can take away phase walk and give me back my insta-whirlwind!
It isn't as good as it sounds from my limited experience.
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I'm getting hit with 40k zealous leaps and 60k twin saber throws on the PTS, so basically haven't gotten the chance to get tagged by any electronets. Nothing's really testable ATM until they fix the bugs / exploits.
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Finally got on the PTS, and based on my limited test, 0/33/13 (or 0/31/15) in surging charge was decent. At least between insta-gibbs from 40k saber throws.
It runs like Wakajinn except you use low slash-> impose weakness maul in place of discharge, and save discharge as a finisher/filler. Will need to test some more though, as there are too many gamebreaking bugs running on the PTS now.
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I'm still waiting for the PTS patch to finish downloading, but I have also been planning to go hybrid lightning (from WJ) since I saw the initial datamine. When I was testing mad maul, I found that losing the upfront burst from using a global on lightning discharge hurt my effectiveness relative to WJ, even with hitting raze as soon as it proc'd.
Hopefully, the extra damage from crackling blasts makes up somewhat for it. However, losing insta-whirlwind is a painful surprise.
As for force management, just switch your gear to the 4 piece PVE force mystic, considering you only need 2 recklessness charges now instead of the third for discharge.
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Obviously they wouldn't let you teleport with the ball/ orb. But still pretty OP nonetheless.
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If you pull your 63 armoring from your EWH bracer and put it into your focus, you get the force power boost much cheaper.
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I saw these supposed leaks a while ago, and contrary to some of the posters here, my first reaction was that the surging charge/ discharge changes are a nerf to the upfront burst of deception specs. If I'm reading it correctly, you won't do any damage with discharge unless you've first built up surging charges (on a 4.5 sec cooldown without voltaic strike). So 1 stack does 1/3 the damage of 3 stacks, rather than being a 30% buff.
That means no upfront discharge in Wakajinn, and in 31 pt deception, if they manage to defend against your discharge after your voltaics, you have a 15 sec cooldown and more stacks to build rather than a buffed shock on six sec cooldown. Of course, it all depends how much damage this thing does now to make up for it.
On the other hand, the new abilities seem OP for Huttball.
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The funny thing is that those of us out in other parts of Asia get better ping on US servers, and have more frequent WZ pops than on Dalborra. I just rolled a lowbie Assassin on the Harbinger, and the server lag is around 150-200, 1/3 of what I've been getting on Dalborra in recent weeks.
On a melee class its like night and day in terms of having abilities activate when and where you want them, and especially valuable is avoiding those lag spikes where your health flies to zero when you didn't think you were taking that much damage.
The downside is though that the lowbie players there are absolutely horrid compared to our server.
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I would merge all three into a super APAC server (Dalborra PVE) and THEN change the maintenance schedule for that to fit APAC time (even if there is a slight delay in getting updates vs other servers. Maintenance is becoming more frequent because of the Cartel Market stuff, and I'm tired of the unexpected downtime.
Also, I would give the PVP and RP server residents the one time option of transferring to one other PVP or RP server, but only AFTER the super server has been running for a month.
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You declined my duel request twice (Gomerik) today and that made me sad.
Eh, didn't want to be a distraction at the time bc they were starting the tourney. But hope to see you next Sunday =)
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Suul - Sniper
Assuming I can get online next Sunday
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I can confirm this. When on one of my lowbie alts in a civil war, a scoundrel capped grass without appearing (no beam of light) until the node was capped. I caught this on video and reported it to Bioware. I offered to upload and link the video if necessary. However, after a week I still have not recieved any response from the developers.
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I'm down for ranked pugs on either Suul or Mago, as long as it's not against my guild.
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Ya, watched this already. Nice work. Just don't record anything with me in it for the time being. Still shaking off serious rust =)
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..Azn > Moshie.. to make this clear
(20ms) (300ms)
Not letting my padawan be put ahead of me without a fight >: I
P.S. Azn is in hong kong now so his ping is around 180ms now.
Welcome (back?) to HK Azn. I find the ping is more like 200-350 most nights, but still playable..
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I wish they showed some sort of consideration for our primetime. given that Dalborra, Jedi Covenant, and Ebon Hawk are the only servers that they took down.
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But a gunnery commando could be effectively played with just grav round, so much they had to change around 1.1? So they wouldn't only use that ability
Here's an epic video of pre-patch merc skills for your comparison:
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Would just like to mention in case it wasn't obvious, that there are some top players that I left out in my list, but only because I either haven't seen them recently or know that they are no longer around.
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Marauder/ Sentinel: Gamblor, Lycaon, Moshelle
Sorceror/ Sage: Labyrinth, Veronika, Whisps, Tanequil
Powertech/ Vanguard: Woofi, Throes, Carthy, Valkyrie, Izo
Juggernaut: Sion, Atrummos, Aznpower, Maz'or
Operative/ Scoundrel: Timbohh, Ganj, Atton, Heala, Steelclaw
Mercenary/ Commando: Daffydil, Domitrovich
Sniper/ Gunslinger: Kevayrts
Assassin/ Shadow: Flashgordon, Jwalsh, Ewa
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I completely support this as well. The PVP'ers will benefit from more frequent pops and more players to compete against. Open world PVP on all servers would thrive from an increased number of willing participants. RP'ers can continue to RP with RP guilds and channels.
And I'm sure many players who have let their subscriptions run out would resub to experience the new merged server.
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Why do all the calculations in complaints about expertise assume that the opposing player has zero expertise?
do you not want to see assassins be horribly and needlessly nerfed?
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What good is breaking even on voltaic slash / surging charge when you're in a crit based class that just lost a third of its crit?
Meanwhile, every other DPS class just got massive buffs.